Trump won Ohio, long considered the ultimate swing state, both times he ran. In 2016 he beat Hillary 2,841,005 (51.3%) to 2,394,164...

-by Patrick Toomey At this stage, Trump is the symptom and Trumpism is the disease. I have no clue as to whether he will run in 2024, and...

This morning, NY Times writer Jonathan Wesiman reported that 71% of all voters believe that democracy is at risk "but only 7 percent...

I first met Bonnie in 2013 when she was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly. When Rush Holt decided to run for the U.S. Senate,...

Stanley Greenberg has long been one of the top Democratic Party establishment pollsters. He’s 77 and he’s not some starry-eyed idealistic...

As lifelong conservative operative Sarah Longwell noted on Monday “Good Republicans” have been driven to “near extinction” by Trumpism. I...

Yesterday, Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein noted something that should surprise no one, namely that the Republicans want to extend...

-by Patrick Toomey It’s October, which means that the mercury and the leaves are falling in most of the country, and we’re looking...

There's Danger On The Edge Of Town I booked a Doors concert at Stony Brook for a welcome back to school concert on September 23, 1967. I...

In late September, CNN reported that a priority GOP candidate in Michigan, John Gibbs, “once railed against giving women the right to...

Yesterday, the NY Times took a conventional wisdom look at the final sprint into the midterms. You don’t have to read it to know what it...

The new YouGov poll for The Economist shows a dead-heat between Democrats and Republicans in the generic congressional polling— 45%...

Let’s face it, the Republicans have a lot of over-the-top crazies running this cycle— from gubernatorial hopefuls like Tudor Dixon (MI),...

Yesterday, Gail Collins’ column in the NY Times, Whoops! Behold the Republican Trove of Truly Terrible Candidates, pointed out the...

Emerson’s latest national polling shows Biden with his highest approval rating of the year— 45% (with 49% disapproving), up 3 points...

Three Conversations With Donald Trump is a promotional excerpt from Maggie Haberman’s controversial new book, Confidence Man: The Making...

Oregon Blue Dog Kurt Schrader was the last Democrat in the House to vote against raising the minimum wage and one of the last to oppose...

Trump’s shady Save America PAC raised almost $100 million so far this cycle and, by law— not that Trump has ever cared about any laws—...

This morning, Brett Samuels reported that “Republicans are growing more concerned that Trump could be a drag— and not a help— in tight...

In 2020 Trump won a district I used to live in in northeast Pennsylvania, PA-08 by over 4 points— 51.7% to 47.3%, which was especially...