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It is not much of an exaggeration, if it is one at all, that college towns are to the Democrats today what factory towns were through most of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.
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Until his running mate Nicole Shanahan can prove herself an asset, Kennedy will seem to have missed an opportunity to capture the imagination of the nation — or at least a meaningful segment of it.
19 days ago
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Ohio was the model bellwether state until 2020. In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent President Donald Trump, but he still lost the White House to Joe Biden.
26 days ago
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History shows that when the major party nominees for president have not cleared the field of notable challengers before summer, they tend to lose in the fall.
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For a time, the phrase “America First” seemed an artifact of the prewar world. But the idea that the U.S. would do better by holding the rest of the world at arm’s length never entirely disappeared.
about 2 months ago
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If polls are not perfect predictors of an incumbent’s reelection, is there something else that is? Observers have long sought the True North by which to set their compass and their expectations.
3 months ago
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There is no good time for a book as critical of one’s own party as <em>Oath and Honor</em>, but it is particularly uncomfortable for the GOP to be taking these punches right now.
5 months ago
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A birthday and a spate of bad polls highlight the one weakness Biden cannot really address. He was 78 when he took office. He’d be 86 leaving a second term.
5 months ago
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A government shutdown is averted for now, yet tempers flared on Capitol Hill before lawmakers left town this week. Meanwhile, President Biden met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
5 months ago
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Increasing pressure on the Biden administration over its stance on Israel, effective paralysis in the House of Representatives over government funding, election wins Tuesday encourage Democrats.
5 months ago
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Johnson’s election is the latest and perhaps most consequential event to date in the alliance of white evangelical Christians with the Republican Party.
6 months ago