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GOP Moderates, Still 'Dwindling' Away After 15 Years

Political editor Richard Stevenson, December 2011: "Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey and one of a dwindling band of moderate Republicans..." Reporter Adam Clymer, ...

Stevenson Makes 'Nuanced' Defense of Obama's 2009 Prediction of 6.5% Unemployment

Richard Stevenson: "...there's a persuasive case that the report actually did not get it all that wrong....Despite repeated Republican claims to the contrary, the stimulus bill created at least ...

Barack Obama: Just Too Much of a Complex Pragmatist for Today's Voters to Figure Out

Never mind that enormous health-care plan and "stimulus" spending, Obama's really a complex pragmatist who may be just too nuanced for today's politics: "On this much, President Obama's friends ...

The GOP Is (Again!) Coming Apart, Thanks to Palin

Yawn. The Republican party is coming apart at the seams, once again, says Times editor Richard Stevenson: "But even as conservatives exult in Mr. Obama's declining job approval ratings, the drive ...

"Far Right" Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute?

Hosting a Times political podcast, the Times' Sam Roberts on "the far right, or certainly the conservative wing of the party" against Obama-care, referring to mainstream political groups like ...

Big-Spending Obama's Not Liberal, Just "Pragmatic"

Reporter Richard Stevenson claims the big-spending, tax-raising president is actually committed "to the most basic conservative tenets: the power of markets as an engine of innovation and ...

Times Political Editor Admits More Liberals in Newsrooms, Sees No Bias in NYT

The Times' political editor Richard Stevenson (pictured) admits "there are more political liberals in newsrooms than conservatives" but of course denies any favoritism on the part of his paper's ...
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