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Despite encouraging news in Senate and House elections scattered across the country, the 2020 returns did little to shake the GOP’s recent status as near-perennial, popular-vote, presidential losers. In the last eight White House...
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Whenever American voters deliver a breathlessly close finish to a fiercely contested presidential race, the weary candidates inevitably squabble over recounts, lawsuits, mishandled ballots, and charges of cheating that lead to an obsessive...
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During the tumultuous and eventful four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, passionate partisans on both sides warned of the potential for a new civil war – a dreadful domestic conflict based, at least in part, on differences in...
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Despite possible disappointment in the outcome of the presidential race, Republicans can find reasons for encouragement in election returns of November 3rd. GOP Congressional candidates performed far better than expected, making...
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Exit polls from the 2020 election show signs of a stronger Republican Party building a broader base. The Trump campaign focused on winning Black, Latino and Asian votes and, to a surprising extent, succeeded. President Trump’s percentage...
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With the prospect that the winning Electoral College candidate will once again lose the popular vote, public opinion seeks change in the way we select presidents. An election eve Gallup Poll showed nearly two thirds who want to “amend...
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All sides in the fiercely fought 2020 election know that it’s a consequential battle, but they should also agree on a crucial aspect of the outcome: America will benefit if Republicans hold their Senate majority. If President Trump wins,...
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In the midst of all the sound and fury of the campaign, you may not have noticed that Democrats have entirely abandoned one of their favorite issues of the past two decades. In 2020, you hear nothing about campaign finance reform, or...
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San Francisco’s School Board has ordered 44 schools to settle on new names by December 18th, replacing historic figures they have associated with racism, abuse of women or the environment, exploitation of workers, and hostility to queer...
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In response to President Trump’s refusal to pre-emptively commit to a “peaceful transfer of power” if Biden wins the upcoming election, Democrats wallow in paranoid fantasies of a possible coup. For instance, Peter Beinart in the New...
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Joe Biden makes a serious mistake when he repeatedly refuses to answer legitimate questions about his position on adding new justices to the Supreme Court—the same scheme of “court packing” that became FDR’s biggest blunder in...
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