Articles by Karl Rove
Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012
President Barack Obama is likely to be defeated in 2012. The reason is that he faces four serious threats.
The ObamaCare Bad News Continues
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The debate over this year's budget is over. Next up: an even more contentious battle over raising the debt ceiling.