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Though both result from accidents of geography, only two Republicans have adopted realistic strategies for winning their party’s presidential nomination – Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty. That’s not to say…

In September, the Obama administration will make a fateful decision fraught with implications for our economy and for our nation’s dependence on Middle East oil: The president will decide just…

Republicans, who have been quaking in fear as they contemplate the political damage wreaked by their nearly unanimous embrace of Paul Ryan’s Medicare-destroying budget, breathed an undeserved sigh of relief…

Last week, forced to write about the political impact of Osama bin Laden’s killing without a single poll, I confined myself to reciting the history and theory behind rally effects…

A huge problem for a column ostensibly devoted to polls and politics – the biggest story of the decade breaks the day before the piece is due and there is…

It’s amazing how quickly some analysts jump to conclusions without any facts to break their fall. Discussions of Dean Heller’s potential appointment to John Ensign’s (R) Senate seat provide the…

I admit to having a soft spot for Latvia – part of my family emigrated from the Baltic nation where, generations ago, they were rabbis, teachers and owners of an…

While Washington has been transfixed by budget deal-making, voters have been focused elsewhere, keeping worried watch over what they perceive to be a deteriorating economy – a perception fueled, importantly,…

Though House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released details of his Medicare plan after this piece was written, it’s already clear the plan contains three elements that are anathema…

The Republican zeal for budget-cutting is masking a particularly insidious aspect of their zealotry, unrelated to deficit reduction – the GOP has declared war on women’s health, and heaven only…