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Passing healthcare reform is an accomplishment of historic proportions, even though, on the eve of victory, only 45 percent of Americans were willing to label it even a major feat.…

George Bush offered three countries charter memberships in the Axis of Evil. Two of the three were on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons. We invaded the third. Whoops. One…

The press purports to explain the problems. “Why The President’s Men Stumble,” a New York Times headline promised to explain. Another lede concluded that the president’s “once-dazzling political momentum

On a podium we shared the other day, my Republican colleague Whit Ayres summarized a great deal of what passes for political analysis. Preceding me in the speaking lineup, Ayres…

Ever since Cato the Younger first used the maneuver in an attempt to frustrate Julius Caesar’s ambitions, the filibuster has been controversial – beloved by minorities battling to stave off…

As premature prophecies of Democratic doom proliferate, ricocheting through candidates’ brains and campaign organizations, they risk becoming self-fulfilling. In part this risk results from some elected officials having been panicked…

One of the questions often debated, late at night, around the metaphorical campaign campfire, is whether elections are about the past or the future. Political scientists armed with econometric models…

Political pollsters’ conceit is that, unlike traditional market researchers, Election Day provides a report card on the quality of our work that reveals unequivocally whether we are right or wrong,…

It is by now axiomatic that Massachusetts voters were in revolt last week. But who, or what, were they rebelling against? Were they using their ballots to attack President Barack…

I’m frequently asked whether polls affect election outcomes. My typical response is, “Not really.” Writing Monday, before the Massachusetts outcome is known, I just may have found a race that…