Michael Barone is a senior writer with U.S. News & World Report. He grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Mich. He graduated from Harvard College (1966) and Yale Law School (1969), and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Law Journal. Barone served as law clerk to Judge Wade H. McCree Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1969 to 1971. From 1974 to 1981, he was vice president of the polling firm of Peter D. Hart Research Associates. From 1981 to 1988, he was a member of the editorial page staff of The Washington Post. From 1996 to 1998, he was senior staff editor at Reader's Digest. Barone is the principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal every two years. The first edition appeared in 1971, and the 17th edition, The Almanac of American Politics 2004, appeared in July 2003. He is also the author of Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (Free Press, 1990), The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again (Regnery, 2001) and the just-released Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Competition for the Nation's Future (Crown Forum, May 2004). Over the years, Barone has written for many publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, National Review, The American Spectator, American Enterprise, The Times Literary Supplement and The Daily Telegraph of London. He is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and has appeared on many other television programs. Barone lives in Washington, D.C. He has traveled to all 50 states and all 435 congressional districts. He has also traveled to 37 foreign countries and has reported on recent elections in Russia, Mexico, Italy and Britain. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "They're going to try to make you afraid of me," Barack Obama told the audience at a Jacksonville fundraiser last month. "He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?" Obama was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/07/05/obamas_candidacy_is_a_test a3f39ed2-1a3d-40a8-9bd2-56f5e4e980f2 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT "Not Exactly a Crime" is the title of a book on America's vice presidents published in 1972 -- a year before Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign for actually committing a crime. The office of vice... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/06/28/why_veeps_now_matter e40e97bc-43cb-457a-a94d-65d573293e17 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT As we enter the second half of the campaign year, facts are undermining the Democratic narrative that has dominated our politics since about the time Hurricane Katrina rolled into the Gulf coast -- most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/06/21/the_facts_in_iraq_are_changing fd45f7e0-144e-40b3-b6c4-e913cce48967 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Barack Obama has long said that his campaign will not accept contributions from lobbyists, and now that he is the presumptive nominee, the Democratic National Committee won't accept them, either. John McCain says... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/06/14/in_defense_of_lobbyists 470ad5bb-5e77-460e-98a6-127515b88ea8 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Almost precisely at the midpoint between the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 and the general election on Nov. 4, the general election campaign is on. Neither party's nominee swept the primaries. John McCain's narrow... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/06/07/general_election_campaign_begins_with_new_playing_field 82936b8c-0d72-40b0-a9f8-2031e8ab70d2 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT "It's the economy, stupid," James Carville famously said during the 1992 campaign, when a young Bill Clinton was running against the other President Bush. The same could be said during this presidential campaign. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/05/31/the_economy_a_reality_check c70599a7-6d2e-4792-8c92-24bc9156ed06 Sat, 31 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT As Barack Obama makes his slow but steady way toward the Democratic nomination, the assumption in the admiring precincts of the press corps is that voters have dismissed as irrelevant his longtime association with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/05/24/the_rev_wright_connection_still_haunts_obama dc3c45cf-cccb-40ff-9e16-e0d1179c4f7d Sat, 24 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT What makes this presidential election different from all other presidential elections? And different from what we expected when the year began? First, neither party's presumptive nominee was chosen by massive... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/05/17/an_unconventional_2008_election_season 224762f6-5581-493a-9017-ea8285173f35 Sat, 17 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT In trying to understand news about the conflicts in Iraq, I work to keep in mind the difference between what we know now about decision making in World War II and what most Americans knew at the time. From the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/05/10/rethinking_the_iraq_critics b7f6363d-fd5b-4715-a355-f89387a1d0df Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Is the bottom falling out for Barack Obama? It's too early to say that, but there are some disturbing signs. On the positive side, superdelegates still are breaking his way. Rep. Baron Hill, whose southern Indiana... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/05/03/wright_controversy_affects_the_polls 3b569393-abc6-4eea-94c8-7e5ca1098cbd Sat, 03 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT One thing many people haven't noticed about Hillary Clinton's 55 percent to 45 percent victory over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary is that it put her ahead of Obama in the popular vote. Her 214,000-vote... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/04/26/popular_vote_gives_clinton_an_edge c900d0aa-8c9c-4cd1-b3e7-9489ffd3d034 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Barack Obama seemed puzzled. Angrily puzzled. The apostle of hope seemed flummoxed by the audacity of the question. At the April 16 Philadelphia debate, George Stephanopoulos, longtime aide to Democratic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/04/19/the_rules_are_changing_for_obama b15b33c5-270b-4036-9578-79b3e0ed3517 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT "It's the economy, stupid." Those immortal words of the political philosopher James Carville in 1992 have been reverberating increasingly in the 2008 campaign. Polls show the economy as the top issue for voters,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/04/12/uncle_sam_pays_sure,_whatever fe1879bd-102b-4e13-b3b2-d4a1092bde30 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Exit polls have shown that the contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has produced deep divisions among Democratic constituencies. It looks something like tribal warfare. Whites have voted, if you average... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/04/05/the_democratic_tribes_at_war fa32c35a-860d-49b8-85de-bd3acb4d29be Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Most people's views of the world are shaped by the times in which they came of age. That's why we speak of a baby boom generation or a Generation X. But some people miss out on the formative experiences of most of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/03/29/missing_a_generation 0d643aff-11eb-4354-99c3-6eb74b10852f Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT