Despite the public’s frequent frustration with the quality of candidates for elected office, third parties have historically had trouble gaining traction. They lack the money and other resources necessary to be competitive.
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Week ahead: campaign finance filings; Brooks-Slaughter and Romney-Obama debates
Congressional candidates have until midnight tonight to turn in their quarterly reports, which will tell us how much money they’ve raised who they’ve raised it from. The reports can also give us some idea of who supports a candidate, and how that candidate may vote if put into office. In the 25th Congressional District race, […]
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Biden comes through for Dems
For those Democrats who needed to be juiced up again after last week’s first presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden came through for them during last night’s vice-presidential debate with Republican candidate Paul Ryan. While there will surely be some jeers about Biden’s many laughs and interruptions, it was pure Biden on display. Nobody really […]
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Jobs conspiracy: a new low
One of the most perplexing things about this election season has been trying to understand why some conservatives have such utter contempt for President Obama. The hatred has been there from the beginning, woven with threads of controversy and thinly veiled bigotry. There was the criticism over receiving the Nobel Prize, the birth certificate controversy, […]
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Debate 1: Obama’s awful night
Holy cow! What on earth was wrong with Barack Obama last night? He seemed distracted, distant, and unprepared. As a thousand commentators have noted, Mitt Romney gave Obama plenty of openings for an aggressive stance, but he ignored them all. And instead of going on the offensive, he stayed on defense too much, lunging for […]
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Week ahead: a College Town update and the big debate
Upper Mt. Hope neighbors will get an update on the College Town project from Cleveland-based developer Fairmount Properties on Tuesday. The project, initiated by the University of Rochester, is a 16-acre mixed-used development targeting the west side of Mount Hope between Elmwood Avenue and Crittenden Boulevard. Plans include a Barnes and Noble bookstore, hotel and […]
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I’m not finding comfort in the polls
The presidential polls are all over the lot right now; every time it looks as if a trend is developing, something else happens. This morning, Real Clear Politics is giving President Obama a poll average of plus 4 percent. But Rasmussen, which tracks likely voters, continues to show a much closer race – a tie, […]
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Romney trailing
Gov. Romney sold himself as the Mr. Fix It president. He was going to right all of President Obama’s many wrongs, starting with the Affordable Care Act. Now he’s scrambling to fix his own campaign by attempting to shift attention away from his comments about 47 percent of Americans not paying income taxes and viewing […]
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Feedback 9/26
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. We edit selections for publication in print, and we don’t publish comments sent to other media. The left has moved right Mary Anna Towler’s column “One Nation Indivisible?” (Urban Journal) cites a New Yorker article saying […]
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What I’m reading: Klein on Romney, the poor, and responsibility
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein may have one of the smartest responses to Mitt Romney’s 47 percent remarks. In a blog post this morning, Klein seizes on Romney’s remarks that he’ll never win over a segment of the population that he says is dependent on the government. In Romney’s words, he’ll “never convince them that […]
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POLITICS: The devil in the details
You won’t hear about it on the news until a disaster happens, but there could be a deteriorating gas pipeline in front of your house or near your kids’ school. With only two local companies offering combined Internet and cable services, you might not be aware of how inferior those systems are — and how […]
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Romney’s bow to the far right isn’t working
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s long and illustrious political star plummeted when the Brits rightly opposed being dragged into President George W. Bush’s Iraq War. The British tabloids began referring to Blair as W’s poodle. It wasn’t the same kind of puppetry we saw with former Russian President Medvedev and Putin, but it was […]
