View image | gettyimages.com For a number of reasons, it has proven extremely difficult in recent history for a presidential candidate to win after eight years in which his party controlled the White House. Only one candidate has done it since 1948-George H.W. Bush in 1988. This fact would make a Hillary Clinton victory next […]
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Hillary Clinton is Just as Polarizing as Every Other Major Political Figure — No More, No Less
Contrary to popular pundit belief, among 2016 contenders, Hillary is easily the most popular.
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Hillary Clinton Is Just As Polarizing As Every Other Major Political Figure — No More, No Less
I’m guessing that you may have heard that Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the White House Sunday in this video. Before that even happened, you may also have heard that lots of people don’t like Hillary Clinton. In the coming months, each new poll showing substantial disapproval, dislike, or disquiet with the prospect of […]
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Republican Candidates Troop to Festival of Paranoia and Fear-Mongering
View image | gettyimages.com The National Rifle Association starts its annual convention today, and there will be plenty of time spent bashing both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, not least because the speakers include Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, and […]
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The Remarkable Persistence of Crackpot Economics in the GOP
The most horrifying article you can read today is not about Ayatollah Khamenei’s troubling comments on the Iran nuclear deal, it’s this piece from Jim Tankersley of The Washington Post about how all the GOP presidential candidates are lining up to receive the wisdom of Arthur Laffer as they formulate their economic plans. This is […]
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How Schumer’s Iran Gamble Threatens Democrats’ Chances in 2016
If enough senators in the minority party follow the lead of their next likely leader, the minority may be where they stay.
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Step One, Acknowledge Climate Change. Step Two, Recognize It’s Our Fault.
View image | gettyimages.com Posted by guest-blogger Amanda Teuscher The past couple weeks have been a bit of a mixed bag in the debate about climate change and environmental policy. On April 1, Governor Jerry Brown imposed water restrictions on California for the first time-a 25 percent usage reduction meant to alleviate the state’s historic […]
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The Opportunity Dodge
It’s an empty promise—because the chance to thrive will never be good amid great inequalities.
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Rand Paul’s Millennial Outreach, Now with Flip-Flops
Posted by guest-blogger Amanda Teuscher With the news that presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz’s affiliated super-PACs have raked in $31 million in less than a week, it looks like Senator Rand Paul is going to have to sell a lot of beer koozies. Paul, who announced his candidacy on Tuesday, is already facing skepticism from […]
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Why Republicans Won’t Convince the Electorate That Hillary Clinton Is a Radical
View image | gettyimages.com One of the persistent conservative narratives about Hillary Clinton is that her identity as a supposedly moderate Democrat is a ruse, meant to conceal her radical leftist intents. If and when she reaches her long-held goal of becoming president, the mask will be removed and the true horror of her socialist […]
