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Michael Barone

Some rotten underpinnings of Biden’s positive rating
05/09/2021 - 11:22pm
Michael Barone
BIDEN PRESIDENCY: May 7, 2021 On the surface, Joe Biden seems to be doing pretty well. But underneath, there are signs of problems, areas where partisan overstretch threatens the underpinnings of what some are hailing as the new order of things. JOE BIDEN enjoys a 54% average job approval rating, a good mark for a president midterm or facing reelection but below the 100-day numbers of every...
The 2020 census: Small Republican gains in a nation hunkered down
Michael Barone 05/01/2021 - 1:35pm
CENSUS: April 30, 2021 The COVID-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of Columbia at nearly one-third of a billion — 331,449,281 — and with surprises having to do with the short run and what French historians call the “longue duree.” THE SHORT-TERM news revolves...
The ebbing of ‘the misperception that bigotry is everywhere’
Michael Barone 04/23/2021 - 1:11am
RACE ISSUES: April 23, 2021 How will future historians explain this? From 2001 to 2014, majorities of Americans, including supermajorities of blacks and non-Hispanic whites, told Gallup pollsters that “race relations” were either very or somewhat good. THEN, AFTER the election and reelection of the first American president of African...
Workers don’t share Democrats’ nostalgia for unions
Michael Barone 04/16/2021 - 5:06pm
UNIONS: April 16, 2021 It wasn’t even close. The final count was 1,798 against and 738 for, 71% to 29%. THE ISSUE in question was whether the employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, wanted to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Not, as the Washington Post, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, put...
Will Joe Biden’s Jim Crow big lie boomerang?
Michael Barone 04/09/2021 - 5:41pm
VOTING: April 9, 2021 The big lie works — until it doesn’t. THE BIG LIE in this case is Joe Biden’s charge that the changes in Georgia election law passed by the majority-Republican legislature and signed by Republican Governor Brian Kemp on April 1 being are “Jim Crow on steroids.” This was doubling down on his...
Too much risk aversion is too risky
Michael Barone 04/03/2021 - 11:54pm
RISK AVERSION: April 2, 2021 “This is not politics,” President Joe Biden said last week. “Reinstate the mandate if you let it down.” Give him credit for consistency: When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas’ mask mandate last month, Biden called it “Neanderthal thinking.” BUT MAYBE the Neanderthals got it right...
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