Here are some observations on what you didn’t hear on election night. Most networks’ focus was, quite properly, on whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris would carry enough of the 93 […]
Was it just a coincidence that Vice President Kamala Harris showed up, 15 minutes late, to be interviewed by Fox News’ Bret Baier a day before Nate Silver’s poll aggregation website showed her chances of […]
Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states. “Never seen anything like this in 30 years,” said California Republican consultant Mike Madrid in an X post, referencing the sharp increase in Republican […]
In my time as a political consultant, I observed that carrying out a campaign strategy was surprisingly simple. You settled on a basic strategy, emphasizing the candidate’s strong points on issues and character, framing the […]
Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on last Wednesday’s front page, has any proposals to cut the rapidly increasing national debt. Instead, both are proposing to […]
As I try to understand public opinion in yet another presidential election year with former President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, I see an anomaly. On one hand, the polls look very much like […]
Learning isn’t necessarily cumulative. Human experience over the centuries provides lessons, some clearer than others. But each generation has to learn lessons anew, and some do not. The lessons about economic growth taught over the […]
There is an uncanny symmetry in the two presidential candidates’ choice of vice-presidential running mates. There are a few superficial differences — Republican J.D. Vance is 40, Democrat Tim Walz 60. Vance is bearded, Walz […]
Four weeks after former President Donald Trump’s conviction in a much-criticized Manhattan prosecution and a week before the first and earliest-ever scheduled post-primary presidential debate, it’s a good time to look at how these two […]
“The far right made big gains in European elections,” reads The Associated Press headline on last week’s European Parliament elections. Lest you wonder why you should dread gains by the “far right,” the lead sentence […]
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