We all have heard buzzwords from politicians over the many years since the invention of political slogans. Many of them have become bumper stickers as well and have been effective while others have been not so successful. Overall though, since they keep popping up, politicians and agenda driven people and groups must think of them as good population-opinion forming tools, otherwise, they would not waste time thinking up more.  Common Sense Politics looks into this political sloganeering.

We must remember that in the 2000 Presidential race, candidate George W. Bush was talked of in the media as “having no gravitas”, meaning him being a lightweight not ready for the job of President. And every liberal journalist and television host or guest in America repeated this particular reference to Bush for several weeks. They even concluded that the selection of Read More→

When looking back, we here at Common Sense Politics have not always been correct in our predictions when we made them. For example, we did not pick John McCain as even having a chance of getting the Republican nomination before the primaries and caucuses began. But slightly more than two month ago, on March 11 of this year to be precise, we posted an article entitled ‘And the winners are….McCain and Obama‘. We claimed that it was statistically impossible for Mrs. Clinton to overcome the delegate lead of 111 that Barack Obama was enjoying at the time. At that time, Read More→