Are Dems Inciting a ’68 Chicago Outcome?
The Parallel Between Then and Now Is Striking At this point in the 2016 presidential election, it now seems that...
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Completing Two Imperfect Candidates
Democrats Have a Deep Enough Bench to Cover Some Blemishes A year ago, Team Blue couldn’t have wished upon a star...
Veteran Candidates on Mission To Turn US Senate Blue
Can Democrats Retake the Senate? If you look closely at the numbers in the map, it would seem that super-pollster Larry Sabato’s...
Republicans’ Only Viable Election Strategy for 2016 is Low Turn-Out
There is a disturbing similarity between the Planned Parenthood videos and the demise of ACORN. Both were designed to keep...
The Billionaire Boys’ Club
How is It That About 158 Wealthy Families Control the Bulk of Election Spending in America? Rubio, Cruz Leading the Billionaire Lottery...
California Leads Nation on Climate Change
New Law Puts State on Path to 50% Renewable Energy by 2030 Sunny California, the 8th largest economy in the...
Higher Wages Key To Robust Economic Growth
But Republican State Legislatures Heed the Call of ALEC There remains a frustrating disconnect between the stream of cheerful economic data...
Good Riddance: House Republican Leadership Goes ‘Poof’
Memo to Kevin McCarthy: Truth-Telling and GOP Politics Don’t Mix Memo to Eric Cantor: That’s Why They Hold Elections Editor’s Note:...
PA Senate Race: Joe Sestak No Longer Walks Alone
Kathleen McGinty Enters the Race With Key Dem Endorsements Admiral Joe Sestak Still Hopes the Second Time’s the Charm Ever since...
Politicized Churches Should Answer Nation’s Calling
It’s Time to Tax Churches Organized Religion’s Tax Subsidy: $71 Billion Annually When a religion is good, I conceive it...
For our 1st Lady President, Heart is Where the Home is
Agenda: What’s Good for Women is Good for America NRA Reckoning? Probably Unavoidable The buzz over Hillary Clinton’s recent announcement of...
Trickle Down Buffoonery Pushes Louisiana to Edge of Bankruptcy
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s State Joins Kansas’s Race to the Bottom It’s deja vu all over again in trickle down fantasy...
The Art of Governing Seems Part of a Bygone Era
Even Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill Would Be Unable to Overcome the Ideological Barricades of the Electoral Map. Exhibit A:...
North Carolina Senate Race Sows Voter Confusion
Last Minute Voter Suppression Tactic Probably Cost Democrats Senate Election In the closest US Senate skirmish tallied thus far in the 2014 midterm...
VA Wait-Time ‘Scandal’ Is Rooted in Iraq PTSD Surge
As scandals typically go, this one started with a “whistleblower.” According to Politico, it was in December 2013 when “Sam Foote,...
In Mr. Paul’s Kitchen, ‘The Big Lie’ Is Passed from Father to Son
Taking a cue from his famous father Ron Paul, US Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), presumed 2016 presidential hopeful, looked past the...
Dems Counting on ‘Field of Dreams’ for Upset Win: If They Build It, Will They Come?
By Andrew Goutman It is an undisputed fact that Democrats have won the popular vote in five out of...
Why I Am a Liberal
Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr., he one of the many cable news political pundits and a former aide to several prominent Democrats, wrote...
Where’s the Fracking Money for PA?
by Andrew Goutman What sort of imagery runs through your mind as you gaze across the endless expanse of North...
Upcoming Midterm Elections: D’s Can’t Do Any Worse Than 2010
The clock is ticking on the 2014 midterm elections, a non-presidential election year in which the maneuvering is quieter but...
Red Caucus Blues
Three Republican suburban Philadelphia congressmen who serve blue state swing districts continually face tough votes that force them to choose...
