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Trump Is Secretariat. DeSantis and Haley are Headed for the Glue Factory. Jan. 21, 2024
Donald J. Trump is the closest thing to Secretariat that we've ever seen in American politics. Do y... Read More
Can Republicans Make Congress Great Again? Nov. 29, 2022
There's no sugarcoating the disappointing results of the midterm elections. Even with one of the wor... Read More
Can Republicans Make Congress Great Again? Nov. 22, 2022
There's no sugarcoating the disappointing results of the midterm elections . Even with one of the wo... Read More
A House Popular Vote Majority Produced Few Seats but Is a Good Sign For Republicans in 2024 Nov. 18, 2022
One of the puzzles in this year's surprising and unpredicted (including by me) off-year election res... Read More
After 2022 Setback, GOP Race for 2024 Is Wide Open Nov. 18, 2022
The 2022 midterm elections were, by any objective measure, tremendously disappointing for Republican... Read More
Contra Conventional Wisdom, There Is Little Evidence Abortion Hurt Republicans Nov. 18, 2022
By any measure, Democrats exceeded expectations this midterm. Though listening to the triumphalism t... Read More
Trump and Biden Big Losers, DeSantis Big Winner in 2022 Nov. 11, 2022
One way to look at this election is as a repudiation of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Democrats held 2... Read More
Florida, the New Capital of Red State America Nov. 11, 2022
In what was an overall frustrating election night for Republicans, in which the oft-predicted "red w... Read More
Postmortem 2022 Nov. 10, 2022
Unlike past elections where certain factors, issues or problems clearly stand out when explaining re... Read More
It's Not Exactly Trump's Republican Party May. 20, 2022
Is it Donald Trump's Republican Party? You can make the case it is, as partisan Democrats do, from t... Read More
The 80/20 Rule Jul. 14, 2021
In the early 1900s, Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian engineer-economist-sociologist, developed what he ca... Read More
Stress Eating Nov. 07, 2020
On Thursday morning, my son woke me up from where I slept on the couch, TV blasting with election re... Read More
Democrats' Plot to Abolish Election Night Sep. 09, 2020
The left and its media allies are warning Americans not to expect a winner on election night. If Don... Read More
The Democrats' Dangerous Delegitimization of the Election Sep. 04, 2020
In a recent deep dive in The Washington Post's Outlook section, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?... Read More
Life Is Messy; Be Cautious of an Orderly Narrative Nov. 07, 2019
Here's what you can expect to see between now and the 2020 elections, which are less than a year awa... Read More
Life Is Messy; Be Cautious of an Orderly Narrative Nov. 07, 2019
Here's what you can expect to see between now and the 2020 elections, which are less than a year awa... Read More
We Need to Believe Election Results Nov. 16, 2018
Democracy is a fragile thing. Ours has lasted nearly 250 years, but there is no guarantee that it wi... Read More
Cosmic Contentedness Oct. 11, 2018
When you don't need or want anything, what should you add? Nothing. Nothing is good. Nothing is pote... Read More
California Results Suggest Blue Wave Has Crested and Ebbed Jun. 08, 2018
The nation is just past halftime in the 2018 primary election cycle. Twenty states — containin... Read More
Two Cheers for Sanctions on Russia Aug. 03, 2017
Economic sanctions work better as a symbol than as a solution. The United States government imposed ... Read More
