In 2008, John McCain, straight-talking principled maverick that he was, got into a Republican primary and saw that a position in favor of comprehensive immigration reform was causing him problems, so he disavowed the reform bill he had co-authored not long before, going so far as to say that if it came up again in […]
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Why Media Coverage of Campaign 2016 Will Be as Bad as Ever
The return of horse-race coverage.
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Why Media Coverage of Campaign 2016 Will Be As Bad As Ever
View image | gettyimages.com Let’s spare a bit of sympathy for the reporters who found themselves running after Hillary Clinton’s van last week in the hopes that they might get a few seconds of video of her stepping out of it and into whatever momentous event she was arriving at. I’m sure that as they […]
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Two More Candidates to Begin Doomed Runs for Presidency
What leads a man to look in the mirror and say, “I could be president of the United States”? Anybody can say they should be president, of course-after all, aren’t all your ideas the right ones?-but it takes a remarkably optimistic spirit to think that you can do what it takes to make it to […]
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Jeb Bush Was Born On Third Base. Does He Think He Hit a Triple?
View image | gettyimages.com Jeb Bush, you may or may not be aware, spent much of his adult life as a “businessman.” I put that word in quotes because from what we’ve learned so far Bush doesn’t seem to have risen in the business world the way we normally think of people doing, by creating […]
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Hillary Clinton’s Evolution On Marriage Equality Shows How Change Happens, and Why Parties Matter
Over the last few days, Chris Geidner of Buzzfeed has been documenting Hillary Clinton’s evolution on the issue of same-sex marriage, an evolution that may now finally be complete. First Geidner posted some interesting documents from the 1990s showing Clinton and her husband explaining their opposition to marriage rights, then he got the Clinton campaign […]
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Photo of the Day, Meet ‘n Greet Edition
View image | gettyimages.com That would be one Hillary R. Clinton, sharing a cup of nourishing coffee with some folks from Le Claire, Iowa. If you’ve ever been to one of these spectacles, you have to admire the ordinary people who find themselves chatting with a candidate as a surly scrum of photographers jostles each […]
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Can Republicans Make Hillary Clinton the Mitt Romney of 2016?
View image | gettyimages.com Republicans have lots of time to come up with a central theme with which they can attack Hillary Clinton, and right now there are a bunch of GOP pollsters scrolling through real estate listings for the lake houses they’re going to buy with all the money they’ll make from running polls […]
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Hillary Clinton: From Symbolism to Specifics
Hillary’s economic agenda is vague and undefined. When she’s forced to get specific, what kind of Democrat will she be?
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Anxiety Itself
As a party identified with women, Democrats face a distinctive challenge in 2016.
