Month: November 2017

Election Night Really Wasn’t So Great

Michael Barone makes a few of points worth remembering. Here’s one: The parties are evenly matched, but differently distributed. Democratic voters are clustered in central cities, sympathetic suburbs and university towns,...

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Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Is All Out of Hope

A lot of people are talking today about Michael Kruse’s piece in Politico Magazine in which he traveled back to Johnstown, Pennsylvania to check in with Trump supporters he’d talked to last year. The basic takeaway...

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Republicans Will Have to Make a Choice

Those who thought Republicans could duck Donald Trump by just working their agenda and the refs found out last night that they’re in deep trouble. Turnout among rubes, I mean Trump supporters, is depressed. Many on the...

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A Realignment That’s a Year Late

I have a weird feeling today as I look over the election results from last night. What I am seeing looks pretty much exactly like what I hoped the results would look like a year ago. I didn’t consistently predict such a...

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