Last week’s special election in the 6th Congressional District of Texas brought good news, and even better news, for the GOP. The good news? A Republican won, giving them their 212th House member – just six seats away from taking...
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Democrats can’t seem to make up their minds about the state of their GOP rivals. On the one hand, leading progressives warn that Republicans are on the verge of a total government takeover that will mean the destruction of Democracy, as...
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Despite all the hype and hoopla of the recently concluded “Trump Fest” at CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference), Republicans face a crushing collection of intractable problems and dire prospects for the immediate...
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For those elements of the GOP who hope to push their party in a more populist direction, there’s already a platform preamble that’s ready to go. “We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material...
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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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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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In their furious reaction to confirmation plans for a successor to the late Justice Ginsburg, Democrats insist it’s all about timing. But even if she’d passed, or resigned, two years earlier, would Democrats offer more cooperation in...
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Politicians make a terrible mistake by trying to discredit the upcoming election before votes have even been cast. President Trump pre-emptively denounces the election as “rigged” and “fraudulent”, while prominent Democrats...
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With normal life increasingly disrupted by the terrifying COVID-19 pandemic, millions of skeptical Americans wonder whether we could, possibly, be over-reacting. A new poll from NPR and the PBS News Hour shows only 40% of Republicans and...
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At this point, it is obvious that Democrats don’t expect to win the impeachment fight. But they still ardently hope this blistering brawl will damage the president’s reelection drive and rescue America, permanently, from a demagogue...
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