- Jamelle Bouie
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Jamelle Bouie contributes to The Plum Line blog. He is a staff writer at The American Prospect magazine, a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a blogger for The Nation magazine.
- Scandals are no substitute for an agenda
- Congress has tackled the deficit -- at the cost of the economy
- GOP's problems with Latinos could get much, much worse
- We need a serious probe of IRS scandal. We don't need another political circus.
- Why the GOP keeps trying to destroy Obamacare
- What right-wing opposition to Lindsay Graham tells us about the GOP
- The deficit is shrinking. Can we talk about unemployment now?
- Don't expect the GOP to change on gay rights anytime soon
- The gun fight is far from over
- Why it's difficult for Obama to "beat" the GOP
- Republicans continue to ignore black voters at their peril
- A small victory against anti-tax conservatives
- The biggest obstacle to Republican reform
- The political perils of Obamacare implementation
- How George W. Bush can help reform the Republican Party
- Max Baucus's mixed legacy
- What Chris Christie's support for gun control says about GOP
- Why Republicans won't support marriage equality anytime soon
- The real immigration compromise
- On immigration, will Republicans take Yes for an answer?
- "Gang of Eight" reaches immigration deal. But will GOP take it?
- How GOP anti-tax dogma helps liberals
- On immigration, Republicans need to lead
- The GOP can't shake that `47 percent' talk
- The GOP's border security roadblock
- What Marco Rubio's dance on immigration tells us about Washington
- For the GOP, social conservatives aren't the only problem
- Don Young and the GOP's Latino outreach problem
- On LGBT equality, there still lots of work to do
- The next big target for liberals: State legislatures
- Why immigration reform may not help the GOP
- The GOP is still Paul Ryan's party
- Phony deficit hawks
- Republicans recommit to the radical Ryan fiscal vision
- What the looming debt ceiling fight (yes, another one) tells us
- A "cool" GOP still won't win young voters
- At CPAC, conservatives still can't admit they have a problem
- Do Congressional liberals have the only "Serious" budget in Washington?
- What will it take to break Washington gridlock?
- A breakthrough on immigration reform?
- The GOP's primary problem
- Why GOP struggles with minority outeach
- On "spending," Republicans are immune to facts
- More evidence GOP isn't serious about reform
- Obama vows to make nominations a priority, but will it matter?
- We're headed for the sequester -- but it won't even do much to reduce the deficit.
- Chris Christie's CPAC snub
- GOP electoral vote-rigging schemes still alive and well
- More evidence immigration reform won't fix GOP's Latino problem
- GOP's sequester shenanigans carry risks for 2014
- Bobby Jindal's rise shows that GOP reform is all cosmetic
- Marco Rubio is against administration's Rubio-esque immigration plan
- Republicans still don't 'get' Latino voters
- Massachusetts Republicans have finally found their man
- On immigration and climate change, Obama's rhetoric won't do much good
- Why Obama should ignore the deficit in his SOTU
- On the sequester, the only way to win is not to play
- In defense of the GOP's "cosmetic" makeover
- Obama's voting reform push is doomed (because it would mean more Dem votes)
- GOP searches for a standard-bearer in Massachusetts
- A GOP filibuster of Chuck Hagel would be unprecedented
- Deval Patrick chooses a replacement for John Kerry
- We don't have a border security problem
- Immigration reform: Great for the country, not for the GOP
- There are no real "reformers" in the GOP
- GOP isolated on abortion, too
- How Obama made good on the promises of his first inaugural
- Can the new, relaunched OFA help Dems in 2014?
- Marco Rubio's 'reformer' mask slips
- GOP intransigence won't hurt the party (much) in 2014
- How Hagel underscores the narrowness of discussion over Israel
- Memo to 'No Labels': To fix Congress, first fix the GOP
- Another blast in the gun wars
- If Republicans want to choose the Cabinet, they should win an election
- Why Hagel is a smart pick for the Pentagon
- Hagel pick challenges bipartisan national security consensus
- A combative Obama calls, again, for a "balanced" deal
- Have Democrats lost their leverage on the fiscal cliff?
- Why Republicans have a lot to gain from reaching out to African Americans
- In discussing compromise, remember: Republicans lost the election
- Why kicking the can is still the best option on the 'fiscal cliff'
- Why Democrats insist on upper-income tax hikes
- Team Romney still doesn't see that Americans rejected its policies
- Why hopes for a Senate 'fiscal cliff' deal are misplaced
- John Boehner tries to save face
- Why the next four years might be more of the same
- GOP elevates reactionary Tim Scott to South Carolina Senate seat
- GOP needs a real reboot on women's issues
- Looks like we're stuck with GOP game playing on debt limit
- No, Obama's campaign wasn't all that negative
- Reminder: Obama has already agreed to big spending cuts
- Paul Ryan and conservatives have not gotten the message of this election
- No, more Latino votes wouldn't have helped Romney win
- Why Washington should kick the can down the road
- GOP's problem isn't messaging. It's policy substance.
- Obama must push for another extension of unemployment insurance
- Why Democrats should continue using super PACs
- Obama should revisit the '14th Amendment' option
- Why the tea party will find success in 2014
- Why conservatives should want a carbon tax
- Republicans disagree with Romney's language, not his policies
- Obama must preserve the payroll tax cut
- Why do so few black politicians run — and win — statewide?
- Obama promises — again — to put immigration reform on his agenda
- For his opening proposal, Obama offers his budget
- Yes, the Ryan plan lost in last week's elections
- The GOP's anti-tax wall begins to crack
- Cheer up, Republicans: Things aren’t so bad
- Return of the ‘nuclear option’
- Did Republican mega-donors waste their money? Maybe not.
- Mitch McConnell is already back to obstruction at all costs
- Romney camp’s hopes for whiter electorate likely to be dashed
- Why Romney is losing Latinos by a historic margin
- Romney's closing pitch: Give the hostage takers what they want
- Why the Senate will be more liberal in 2013
- Florida, a must-win state, is still shaky for Romney
- No, the electoral map isn’t expanding
- What could we expect from a President Romney?
- Romney still trying to close the deal in Colorado
- In that Des Moines Register interview, Obama makes an unusually clear case
- Last night’s debate can only help Obama
- Keep an eye on Virginia, too
- The ad war endgame: Advantage, Obama?
- Romney to bosses: Talk to your workers about this election
- How Romney lost by swinging and missing on Libya
- Memo to Dems: Beware of post-debate snap polls
- Why African Americans are sticking with Obama
- The GOP's neat trick on Obama ‘polarization’
- Why Joe Biden's debate performance is critical
- How Obama has jeopardized the future of liberalism
- Has Romney fundamentally shifted the race?
- Democrats steadily gain in Senate races nationwide
- With Elizabeth Warren leading, GOP may have to stick with Todd Akin
- How Obama gained an ad advantage over Romney
- Among Obama supporters, enthusiasm hasn’t dimmed
- Mitt Romney is now a long shot
- Romney’s wildly fluctuating message about Obama
- Don’t sweat the Super PAC cash
- Why all that money won’t save Mitt Romney
- Why Republicans should still support Todd Akin
- How `47 percent’ could fracture Mitt Romney's coalition
- This race is not a toss up. Romney is losing.
- Romney is running as a conservative ideologue
- Romney makes new pitch to blue-collar workers
- What Romney has to do to win this election
- Romney isn’t ready for a "choice" campaign
- The fundamentals still favor Obama
- Could Obama get a larger than expected bounce?
- The GOP’s absurd effort to drive wedge between Clinton and Obama
- Romney’s problem: The economy is, in fact, improving
- Why ‘Are you better off?’ is the wrong question for 2012
- The GOP's unusual diversity problem
- Will Paul Ryan's dishonesty matter to voters?
- The very narrow "we" in "we built it"
- In final stretch, Mitt Romney channels Lee Atwater
- Why isn't Mitt Romney winning right now?
- Romney hopes Latinos forget everything he's said for the past year
- Fox, meet henhouse. Paul Ryan, meet Medicare.
- President Obama, culture warrior?
- Why Romney keeps lying about Obama and welfare
- Yes, this campaign is negative and nasty — and that’s a good thing
- Why Republicans want Artur Davis to speak at the GOP convention
- Here’s why Romney pounced on Biden's "chains" gaffe: He’s losing
- Republicans, and the Romney campaign, are ambivalent about Ryan's presence
- Republicans attempt to sell Paul Ryan as a moderate
- On social issues, there's no daylight between Ryan and the far right
- In new ad, Mitt Romney repeats false attack on Obama's welfare policy
- Romney's historically poor performance with Latinos
- Many conservatives still think Obama is a Muslim
- Media finally pressing Romney on whether his plan would fix crisis
- Is Michigan a swing state?
- Pennsylvania admits it: no voter fraud problem
- Keep an eye on the national economy in judging Obama’s chances
- Let’s avoid politics in discussion of Colorado shooting
- Are Bain attacks a success, or a flop? Still too early to say.
- Romney campaign embraces fantasy need to `vet’ Obama
- Why it won’t matter who Romney picks for Veep
- Is Obama losing ground against Romney?
- Is the Romney team overconfident?
- Mitt Romney's cynical response to NAACP booing
- Why (most) African Americans are a lost cause for the GOP
- Mitt Romney's position is weaker than it looks
- A foreign policy tour for Romney? Really?
- What Mitt Romney’s `tax’ cave means for a Romney presidency
- Newsflash: The presidential polls have barely budged in weeks
- Romney responds to the SCOTUS ruling by making stuff up
- One more time: The GOP wouldn’t replace Obamacare with anything
- It isn’t easy being a black Republican
- No, a jobs message won’t help Mitt Romney among Latinos
- On Wisconsin, the conventional wisdom is mostly wrong
- Romney's decisive advantage with veterans
- The next step in Obama's attack on Bain Capital
- Obama faces an uphill climb in breaking Romney's aura of competence
- In Virginia, Tim Kaine's fate is linked to Obama's
- Romney lets his inner Keynesian out
- Romney moves to emphasize his competence with latest ad
- Why we should expect Obama to lose Florida in 2012
- The myth of Obama's spending binge
- The new, strikingly dishonest ad from Crossroads GPS
- What the Obama campaign can learn from Newt Gingrich
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