Articles by Karl Rove

Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012

Wall Street Journal | June 23, 2011

President Barack Obama is likely to be defeated in 2012. The reason is that he faces four serious threats.

The ObamaCare Bad News Continues

Wall Street Journal | June 16, 2011

A kerfuffle was stirred up last week by a devastating McKinsey & Company study that concluded up to 78 million Americans would lose their current health coverage as employers stopped offering insurance because of President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The President's Medicare Abdication

Wall Street Journal | June 9, 2011

Barack Obama told his staff the day after he was inaugurated that "transparency and the rule of law" would be his presidency's "touchstones." In the case of Medicare, they haven't been.

William Perry Clements: Lone-Star Giant

Wall Street Journal | June 2, 2011

Today in Dallas, a son of Texas will be laid to rest. The death Sunday at age 94 of former Gov. William Perry Clements Jr. ended a storied life of achievement and service.

Why the Republican Lost in NY-26

Wall Street Journal | May 26, 2011

Five and a half weeks after House Republicans passed their budget, Democrats and liberal pundits have decided it is political kryptonite that will fatally weaken the GOP.

Washington's Robo-Signing Bank Heist

Wall Street Journal | May 19, 2011

At last Wednesday's "CBS Town Hall," President Obama said he was "trying to . . . figure out how we can get the banks to do more" on modifying mortgage loan payments.

Remembering the First Blow Against al Qaeda

Wall Street Journal | May 12, 2011

It was a fitting end: The brutal terrorist who aspired to create an Islamic caliphate that stretched from the Straits of Malacca to Gibraltar was found hiding in a walled compound, isolated and reduced to communicating in fitful spurts by courier.

The 2012 Electoral Math Looks Good for the GOP

Wall Street Journal | May 5, 2011

The number 270 will come to dominate almost every waking moment for the Obama re-election high command in Chicago—as well as for their counterparts in the headquarters of the GOP nominee next year.

Obama Takes a Page From Nixon's Handbook

Wall Street Journal | April 28, 2011

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is now up and operating. It's an interesting amalgam: Tactically, it's Bushian—but strategically, it's Nixonian.

How Republicans Can Win the Debt Limit Fight

Wall Street Journal | April 21, 2011

The debate over this year's budget is over. Next up: an even more contentious battle over raising the debt ceiling.