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Political advertising is based on a principle well known to con artists worldwide: bait and switch. Despite great work by media consultants, nobody wants to watch a political ad. They…

Last week, America watched transfixed as the lives of two people came to end: Pope John Paul II and Terri Schiavo. Their lives could hardly have been more different. He…

For a while, labels such as “conservative” didn’t mean much, or at least they didn’t have much analytic value. People were willing to label themselves, but the labels did not…

Judges have a saying: “Hard cases make bad law.” The same could be said of polling, with the Terri Schiavo case a current and wrenching example. As personal autonomy has…

It should take 60 votes to put someone on the Supreme Court for life. We should be aggressive and affirmative in making that demand and not shrink from it. Most…

To judge from the recent plethora, surveys about Social Security are becoming as important to the economy as the program itself. Whatever their source, the results of these polls all…

It’s a question I hear with increasing frequency. “Does God care more about homosexuality than about hunger?” The question arises because those who purport to represent religion in politics –…

Imagine the surprise! Before November, public polls showed Sen. John Kerry with 65 percent of the Latino vote. “Kerry is winning the Latino vote by a margin greater than Al…

Last week, I tried to demonstrate that American politics was undergoing a subtle but important transformation as we move from an alignment based more on class to one based importantly…

The organizing principles of American politics are in flux. We are moving from an alignment based more on class to one based importantly on culture. Over time, those with a…