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After reading last week’s Washington Post poll story, a friend asked, “Is it really all over? Has Hillary Clinton already won the nomination?””No,” I replied. “While Clinton is in a…

Creating a brand is hard work; destroying one is relatively easy. Piece by piece, Republicans have been dismantling the brand image they spent generations laboring to build.   Once the…

it’s not bad enough to be led by one of the most unpopular presidents in American history, through the most unpopular war we have ever fought – now the GOP…

In examining poll results, you assume the data has probably been subjected to some demographic weighting – a perfectly legitimate statistical procedure – but you also trust that the numbers…

In attempting to argue the success of the surge, Gen. David Petraeus presented a bevy of controversial statistics about deaths, attacks, bombings and violence. Other agencies, from the Government Accountability…

Larry Craig will soon be gone – and if Republican leaders have their way, quickly forgotten. However, his case leaves behind a trail of questions about the slippery standards employed…

We naturally prefer Mother Teresa’s rendering (“If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one I will.”) over the version attributed to Stalin…

Rarely does Congress have the opportunity to achieve two important public policy objectives in one piece of legislation. With reauthorization SCHIP, funded by an increase in tobacco taxes, such a…

Anti-Mormon prejudice clearly infects this country, leading many to ask whether Mitt Romney’s religion will be an insurmountable barrier to his presidential prospects.Evidence of this insidious disease comes in part…

Using the phrase “with all due respect” at the start of a sentence pretty much guarantees that what follows will not be very respectful. Well, with all due respect, John…