Year: 2016

The Electoral Problem is Rural

Just prior to the election, I told you that the students at my child’s suburban Philaldelphia elementary school in Chester County, Pennsylvania had voted for Clinton by a healthy 64%-34% margin. When their parents showed...

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Rural America – How to lose it

Don’t even try to win it. Matt L. Barron, Daily Yonder: Analysis: Democrats Turn Their Backs on Rural America Candidates do rallies in the main city of television markets because it is convenient. As the media scratched...

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Will John Bolton Get the Last Laugh?

Since there are news reports that President-Elect Donald Trump is seriously considering nominating John Bolton to be his Secretary of State, I think a little history lesson is in order. In early 2005, fresh off reelection,...

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Would Obama Have Won this Election?

According to current projections that assume Clinton will have more than 63.5 million votes, Clinton is going to retain a better share of the 2012 vote, than Obama was able to retain in 2012 of the 2008 vote.  In 2012,...

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