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Why real political power can be found in Ada, Oklahoma

By: Mark Tapscott 10/07/10 9:00 PM
Ever been to Ada, Oklahoma? I have, many times. Grew up in Oklahoma and rode through Ada three or four times a year with my family as we drove from Oklahoma City to Tyler, Texas, where my parents grew up. Ada wasn't a big town then and it's not a big town now. Read More

If 2010 is an "anti-incumbent" election, how can it be that 80 percent of the incumbents will be re-elected?

By: Mark Tapscott 10/07/10 9:00 PM
That is the question posed over at RedState.com by Ned Ryun in an important post that reminds us all that, stirring as they may be, the Republican primary victories by insurgent Tea Party conservatives like Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and many others are still just that - primary victories. The key passage in Ryun's "The Opening Salvo" is this: Read More

Broder: There are only so many liberals

By: David Freddoso 09/29/10 12:00 AM
David Broder has a very interesting piece in today’s Washington Post looking at the national ideological realignment of the early Obama era, and how it affects Democrats’ chances: Read More

Biden to Liberals: ‘Get in gear, man. . there’s a great deal at stake’

By: David Freddoso 09/15/10 12:00 AM
Vice President Joe Biden went on Rachel Maddow’s show to tout the progressive victories of the Democratic Party and get Progressives interested in the mid-term elections. Not that he’s worried or anything. Read More

William Kristol: The left is unpopular, undisciplined and ill-tempered

By: Staff report 08/16/10 12:00 AM
The left has collapsed. Its political support has collapsed. Public opinion polls point to a historic repudiation of the president and the Democratic party this fall, something on the order of a 60-seat Republican gain in the House. The GOP has an outside shot at taking the Senate as well. Read More

For Michelle Obama, extravagance dents popularity

By: 39293527 08/13/10 12:00 AM
After a widely admired start in the White House, first lady Michelle Obama's popularity is falling and, if the current downward trend in her approval ratings continues, could touch lows not seen since the scandal-tainted days of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Read More

Noemie Emery: Americans do more with less, politicians do more with more

By: Noemie Emery 08/11/10 12:00 AM
You are a senator who married quite well, and whose wife holds title to five major mansions, situated in some of the world's choicest places, supplying multiple venues for year-around pleasure. But sooner or later things tend to pall, and you need something different: a shiny new yacht. Read More

Cut deficit without cutting services? Start here

By: 39293527 08/10/10 12:00 AM
Whenever a conservative suggests reducing the federal deficit by cutting spending rather than raising taxes, there's always someone to ask: Well, what would you cut? Americans may say they want less government spending, the argument goes, but they don't want anyone to touch their services and subsidies and monthly checks. Read More

Gene Healy: Real 'hope and change' in the United Kingdom

By: Gene Healy 08/10/10 12:00 AM
Three months ago today, David Cameron moved into 10 Downing Street, after 13 years of centralizing, free-spending rule by Labor. An outgoing Treasury minister left a helpful note for his successor: "There's no money left." Read More

Faced with chance of winning, GOP asks, 'Now what?'

By: Michael Barone 08/08/10 12:00 AM
Republicans are starting to think about how to answer the Robert Redford question. You know the scene. In the 1972 movie "The Candidate," the Redford character, having won the election, turns to his political consultant and asks, "What do I do now?" Read More

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