Populist

by Patrick Appel PPP's new poll isn't a surprise, but the size of the anti-Palin population is somewhat jarring: [A] majority of voters in every single state we have polled so far on the 2012 race has an unfavorable opinion of [Palin]. A…

Tallahassee -- He rode a wave of optimism into office four years ago, but Gov. Charlie Crist leaves behind a very different Florida when his term expires next week. Crist himself has changed, too. Long stripped of his once-sky high popularity a…

The Nation -- For decades now, there’s been a gap between the left’s and the right’s ability to talk Populist. Liberals tend to trip over their own subtlety, uncertainty and/or ambivalence (an example of which youmaybe just rea…

by Patrick Appel Ronald Brownstein splits the 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates into managers and Populists. He notes that Palin, the archetypal populist, takes the lion's share of the low-income non-college vote while Romney, the stereotypic…

If Barack Obama wins Reelection in 2012, as is now more likely than not, historians will mark his comeback as beginning on Dec. 6, the day of the Great Tax Cut Deal of 2010. Obama had a bad November. Self-confessedly shellacked in the Midterm Elec…

National Journal: As the 2012 Republican pre­sidential race begins to coalesce, the field is dividing between Populists and managers. The most prominent Populists are former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike…

I know the basics of his bio — accomplished CEO, talk-radio host, Cancer survivor — but not much more beyond that. Even so, it got my attention a few days ago when he won Red State’s 2012 “tournament,” topping Mike …