Opinion · 119th Congress
The electorate’s inflation report card: three factors to watch
In 2024, Democrats won independents by 1 point and Republicans won 220 seats. In 2018, Democrats won independents by 12 and Democrats won 235 seats.
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Opinion · 117th Congress
The Democratic message from Utah — of all places
And the event was the Democratic convention in a state that routinely elects Republican senators by a better than 2-to-1 margin.
Opinion · 117th Congress
GOP has to make 2022 about policy, not personality
Gavin Newsom in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans almost 2-to-1, where Donald Trump got trounced in both 2016 and 2020 and where no Republican has been elected statewide since 2006 was a long
Opinion · 117th Congress
As Democrats plot to overturn Iowa result, it’s déjà vu all over again
For those supporting HR 1, they might consider that a party so easily willing to overturn an election is not the party to “reform” our election system.
Opinion · 117th Congress
2020 was no fluke for congressional Republicans, no matter the Georgia runoff results
[jwp-video n=”1″] In 2016, voters identified as conservatives over liberals by a 9-point margin; but in November, that edge for conservatives jumped to 15 points.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Biden at bat: ‘There is no joy in Mudville’
But for 1 in 4 voters, the candidates’ personalities were more important to their decision than policies. Biden won those voters 64 percent to 31 percent.
Opinion · 116th Congress
If Congress can’t pass police reform now, we just don’t need a Congress
[jwp-video n=”1″] The right group While there may be vast areas of federal policy where lawmakers truly can’t tell the difference between a problem and a solution — remember the Facebook hearing
Opinion · 116th Congress
Pandemics change, but Congress stays the same
In 1968, a deadly flu killed 1 million worldwide and about 100,000 Americans, including Rep. Robert Everett, D-Tenn.
Opinion · 116th Congress
The crucial privacy debate happening in the shadows of the coronavirus
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Opinion · 116th Congress
Senators try to punt their way out of trouble and Trump’s line of fire
[jwp-video n=”1″] That would make a little bit of sense if there were some guarantee that the president would be chastened enough to cease and desist his efforts to game the 2020 election by
Opinion · 116th Congress
Cory Booker bows out, Ben Carson backs off fair housing and issues of race recede in America
His administration has appointed nearly 1 in 4 of the nation’s federal appeals court judges and 1 in 7 of its district court judges, an NPR report last year found.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Yes, Virginia, there is hope for the country
[jwp-video n=”1″] In his address, Isakson also lamented the abundance of those focusing on problems, and the shortage of individuals trying to get to a solution.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Bloomberg, Biden, Buttigieg and the bunch apologize. Should black voters listen, forgive and vote?
[jwp-video n=”1″] While former Vice President Joe Biden has defended what he has characterized as some good outcomes of a 1994 crime bill that he helped shape, he has also accepted responsibility
Opinion · 116th Congress
The befuddling Democratic presidential race
[jwp-video n=”1″] ‘Uncharted waters’ When it comes to handicapping a presidential race as baffling as the 2020 Democratic nomination fight, the proper response is to shrug your shoulders and
Opinion · 116th Congress
With ‘lynching’ comment, Trump retreats to his racist comfort zone
[jwp-video n=”1″] How far we’ve come Is Trump’s latest stunt one step too far for Republicans wanting to retain the “party of Lincoln” label without irony?
Opinion · 116th Congress
Startling discovery: Impeachment is not bringing out the best in Trump
In most versions of the Constitution, Article 1, Section 9 bans “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
Opinion · 116th Congress
2020 Democrats may dream big now, but reality will bite them later
[jwp-video n=”1″] Great expectations?
Opinion · 116th Congress
Criminal justice reform had a bipartisan minute. Then 2020 reared its head
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Opinion · 116th Congress
It’s time for a cease-fire in the latest war of words
[jwp-video n=”1″] Economic winds Now, almost eight years later, President Donald Trump and the GOP should have a distinct advantage.
Opinion · 116th Congress
The politics of abortion surge to forefront of 2020 debate
Kirsten Gillibrand is running for president: Here are some congressional basics [jwp-video n=”1″] “I don’t think any of them had Biology 101,” she said.