Obama Approval Rating Continues To Slide In NH 4/28/2011

President Barack Obama’s job performance rating in New Hampshire has dropped to its lowest level since his election. Obama’s handling of the economy and health care reform continue to drag down his popularity

NH Race Tightens After Debate 10/09/2012

The race for president in New Hampshire has tightened in the past week. President Barack Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney but by a smaller margin, 6 percentage points compared to 15 percentage points a week ago. Three of five voters predict that the Obama/Biden ticket will ultimately win the election. Election: 201

Obama Opens Lead In NH 10/01/2012

President Barack Obama has opened a lead over Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. Independent voters who had been supporting Romney have swung to Obama in recent weeks. A slim majority of voters predict that the Obama/Biden ticket will ultimately win the election. Election: 201

From Affordable Care Act to Obamacare : Political Party and the Framing of Health Care in the 2012 Presidential Election

In the world of politics, language can be the difference between success and failure. Through language, we are able to communicate and understand one another, and it is important to critically analyze the language used by public figures in order to gain insight into their goals and attitudes. This study examines the language used by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election. Specifically, the study explores the ways in which Romney and Obama utilized frames, or the mental structures that shape the way they see the world. A sample of each candidate’s rhetoric and language was analyzed, using the topic of health care as a lens through which to study how both used language regarding health care policy. The frames chosen by Obama and Romney provide insight into each candidate’s political party ideology, particularly with regard to the ways in which the language used by each reinforced (or negated) worldviews traditionally held by Democrats or Republicans, respectively. The results are discussed in terms of George Lakoff’s family model of morality, which asserts that Democrats base values in government on a nurturant parent model of the family, while Republicans base values on a strict father model. Though Romney and Obama tended to use frames associated with their respective political parties, examples of both family models were found in the rhetoric of both candidates, suggesting a moderate political ideology for each

General Counsel of the FBI, James Baker, in Conversation with Professor Mary DeRosa on the FBI and International Justice

Mary DeRosa, Georgetown Law Professor, former Deputy Counsel to President Obama for National Security Affairs, former Legal Advisor to the National Security Council under President Obama, and former Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council in the Clinton Administration, interviewed current General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), James Baker. The two discussed the FBI’s role in international law enforcement and the domestic tension between technological advancement and law enforcement duties

Book review: who cares?: public ambivalence & government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age

Alastair Hill finds some important advice for both Barack Obama and David Cameron on the ‘policy moods’ in Britain and America

From Branch Ministries to Selma: Why the Internal Revenue Service Should Strictly Enforce the Section 501(C)(3) Prohibition Against Church Electioneering

On Sunday, March 4, 2007, congregations in African American churches in Selma, Alabama, commemorated the forty-second anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 Selma voting-rights march. Celebrating with them were Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, both candidates in the 2008 presidential election. Despite federal regulations prohibiting §501(3) nonprofit religious organizations from engaging in partisan political activities, Senators Clinton and Obama each made a campaign stop at prominent African American churches, delivering sermon-like speeches during Sunday services

Obama Begins Presidency with High Marks in NH 2/16/2009

President Barack Obama has high approval ratings in New Hampshire during the early stages of his presidency

Presidential Race Remains Close In New Hampshire 8/13/2012

The presidential election in New Hampshire is unchanged in the past month with President Obama holding a slim lead over Mitt Romney