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Welcome to My House
As the 2018 Midterm elections approach, the focus is on the race for control of the House of Representatives. The upcoming November election presents the Democratic Party with the best opportunity to win the House since they lost it during the GOP wave in 2010. Democrats point to recent successes in special elections in Alabama…
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Age Never Matters
Commentators have a habit of describing a certain generation of people as sharing common characteristics by placing them in the same generational set. For example, people in their 20s and younger are known as millennials. The commentators called people born between 1946 and 1964 “baby boomers,” and people of a later generation “Generation X.” Critics…
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The Democrats’ Problems For 2018
The 2018 Midterms present the best opportunity for the Democratic Party to take back the House since they lost it in 2010. Trump is a historically unpopular President, history is on the Democrats’ side as the opposing party in a midterm election, and Democratic grassroots activism has skyrocketed. In theory, taking the 24 seats they…
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Lessons From The (Supposedly) Deep Blue
BY SAMUEL KLEIN What a dramatic evening. The Senate flipped, the House was reinforced, and gubernatorial upsets were plenty. Many races expected to be practically guaranteed to go left were too close to call hours after the polls closed. One of the biggest shockers of the night hit me close to home, happening in the…
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And the Tea Party Defers to…
And the Tea Party defers… to the establishment—or so optimistic conservatives have been given reason to believe. Michele Bachmann—the House’s Tea Party Caucus founder—has pulled her name from the race for Republican Conference Chairperson, and, thereby cleared the path for establishment favorite Jeb Hensarling (TX). The implications, or so it would seem, are at once…
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Get in touch, Get rid of Pelosi
Paul Kane and Perry Bacon Jr. at the Washington Post appear to have missed the point, or at least part of it: “Rejecting demands that she relinquish power after her party’s losses in the midterm elections, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she will run for minority leader, potentially setting up an ideological battle within…
