Take note, 2018 Republicans: Gillespie lost Virginia in the primary
Contrary to the spin machines that have been working overtime, Tuesday night’s election in Virginia was not a referendum on the president. This race was lost in the primary by a candidate who made the...
View ArticleFinding silver linings in Trump presidency hard but critical work
During this time of year, it is customary to do some inner soul-searching and to think about all of the things we are thankful for. But from a political perspective, it is tough to look around and find...
View ArticleIt's Kirsten Gillibrand's moment — if she can pull it off
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has many people talking — including the president of the United States. After Gillibrand called for Trump’s resignation in response to sexual harassment...
View ArticleWomen have rejected the GOP — the ship must be righted, and fast
Roy Moore was rejected this week. You may have heard the collective sigh of relief from women across the country. For many of us, it was a welcome reassurance that there is a moral line even...
View ArticleVoters want unconventionality, but dignity, in leaders after Trump
Recently, President Trump’s fitness for office has been challenged, stemming from his intemperate comments about low-level immigrants coming to America. Media reports followed, assessing his...
View ArticleThe only real question left is when
The only real question left is when.And not, "When will another shoe drop in the Russia investigation?" or, "When will President Donald Trump next rage petulantly on Twitter?" The answer to both...
View Article2018 midterm defeat will be even worse than Republicans let on
There are seven months before the November 6 midterm elections and the media and political observers are frothing over “The Coming Blue Wave”.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last week in...
View ArticleCode red for the GOP
Over the past week, Republicans have been comforting themselves with some seemingly improving indicators about their electoral chances this fall. The president’s approval rating ticked up, before...
View ArticleImpeachment, immigration: Two topics to help the GOP hold the House
Now that President Trump and the Republican Party have dodged a bullet in the West Virginia GOP Senate primary and the primary voters have delivered solid Republican senatorial challengers in Indiana...
View ArticleMatt Schlapp: Metrics that matter make the case for GOP victory in 2018
It is the summer before the midterm elections of 2018. If you read the “enlightened” papers of record and listen to the so-called experts, the Trump-dominated GOP is heading to one of the biggest...
View ArticleDemocrats, and voters, must halt Trump’s threat to our democracy
Republicans and President Trump are promoting the idea that the GOP must hold onto its majority in Congress to save the president’s agenda and prevent his potential impeachment. Democrats need...
View ArticleBurn(t) down the GOP?
Does the Republican Party need to burn down in 2018 and 2020 in order to save the Republican Party? That is the thinking of so-called Never Trump conservatives — those so aggrieved by the rise of...
View ArticleRepublicans have a choice: party or country?
They arrive every year around this time: small beige envelopes from Ron Kaufman, the treasurer of the Republican National Committee (RNC), asking Republicans for a yearly contribution to renew their...
View ArticleWhy target Tucker Carlson? It's part of the left's war on the right
The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have rightly shocked the nation. In our understandable collective furor over the senseless loss of life, all the old political divides are being...
View ArticleNostalgia for the GOP of old
I cut my teeth in Democratic Party politics, engaging in robust, near-daily policy debates with my Republican counterparts. My work in media and communications has put me at the center of public...
View ArticleAnti-Electoral College activists hope for chaos
Can presidential electors vote for any candidate they choose? Or must they vote for the candidate who won their states’ popular votes? These questions long have remained unresolved, but now the Supreme...
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