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June 22, 2025

Articles by Michael Barone

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BARONE: The 2020 Census: Small Republican gains in a nation hunkered down

May 6, 2021 Michael Barone

The COVID-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of Columbia at nearly one-third of a billion — 331,449,281 — and with surprises having to […]

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BARONE: Workers don’t share Democrats’ nostalgia for unions

April 20, 2021 Michael Barone

It wasn’t even close. The final count was 1,798 against and 738 for, 71% to 29%. The issue in question was whether the employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, wanted to be represented […]

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BARONE: Biden moves forward with open-doors immigration policy. Why?

March 23, 2021 Michael Barone

“BIDEN,” say the young demonstrators’ T-shirts, imitating his campaign logo, “PLEASE LET US IN!” The picture ran in The New York Times, but one wonders whether whoever paid for the tees got his money’s worth, […]

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BARONE: Partisan strife produces high voter turnout — and no big boost for either party

March 3, 2021 Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

The last decade has seen a boom in voter turnout — for both parties. Between the 2012 and 2020 presidential elections, total voter turnout rose 23%, with Democratic turnout up 23% and Republican turnout up […]

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BARONE: The United States of Racial Quotas and Preferences

February 2, 2021 Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden’s administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign policy specialist, was named director of the Domestic Policy Council. Rice — unconfirmable for a Cabinet post after […]

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BARONE: The year America went crazy

January 6, 2021 Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so because of the responses, of both elite officials and ordinary Americans, to the COVID-19 pandemic starting last February and to the […]

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BARONE: The unbearable lightness of white college Democrats

December 15, 2020 Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

Eighty-five percent of counties with a Whole Foods store voted for Joe Biden. That factoid, relayed by The Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman, tells you something important about the election — and about today’s Democratic […]

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BARONE: Republicans retain a marginal advantage in redistricting

December 1, 2020 Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

One of the many big surprises in this month’s surprising election was the Democrats’ failure to overturn Republican majorities in state legislatures. Various Democratic committees budgeted $88 million to flip majorities in big states such […]

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BARONE: Californians — and Americans — reject racial quotas and preferences

November 25, 2020 Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

Among the most surprising of the multiple surprising results in this election was California’s rejection of Proposition 16. The ballot measure was supported by the Democratic supermajorities in the state legislature; by long-established corporations and […]

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BARONE: A country where people are afraid to tell pollsters what they think

November 17, 2020 Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

“I like a good contrarian argument as much as the next guy,” tweets mild-mannered RealClearPolitics senior elections analyst Sean Trende, “but there’s really no getting around the fact that the 2020 polling was a pile […]

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