What Does A Blue Wave Look Like When It’s Forming Up Over A Year Before The General?
Big Wins In Pennsylvania And New Hampshire Yesterday There were two consequential special elections yesterday. We wrote about the one in...
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Howie Klein
- 3 days ago
- 3 min
Big Election In Allegheny Co. Today Will Determine Which Party Controls Pennsylvania's State House
First the good news, the very good news— the crucial election in western Pennsylvania today is in solid blue territory. The winner of...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 21
- 4 min
As Goeth Bucks County, Goeth Pennsylvania... Goeth The Nation?
Bucks County had been reliably Democratic until 1896 when Republican William McKinley beat populist William Jennings Bryan. Between that...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 16
- 3 min
Is The Freedom Caucus Really Trying To Defeat Mainstream Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick?
Kevin McCarthy Has No Comment Brian Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent, took over as congressman for Bucks County when his brother, Mike...
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Howie Klein
- May 22
- 8 min
How Badly Will The GOP's Pro-Kremlin Agenda Hurt The Party's Candidates In 2024?
Ukrainian Americans Are Fleeing The GOP In Droves Technically, I guess I’m a Ukrainian-American. My grandfather was born in Ukraine when...
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Howie Klein
- May 2
- 4 min
It Will Be Absolutely Fantastic To See Manchin And Sinema Defeated Next Year, But...
Yesterday, The Hill published one of those pieces they’re always running: Senate rankings: Here are the 5 seats most likely to flip. If...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 16
- 5 min
The Dems Will Likely Lose The Senate Next Year-- Unless The Republicans Commit Intentional Suicide
Can The GOP Candidate Quality Problem Be As Dire As Kyrsten Sinema? Politico kicked off Wednesday with another story about the GOP’s...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 15
- 8 min
To Understand The Modern Republican Party, You Must Grok The Intense Sense Of Fear And Grievance
The GOP-- A Toxic Brew Of Fear & Desperation, Anger & Indignation, Feelings Of Betrayal & Victimhood, Crying Out For Vengeance On Monday,...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 7
- 6 min
Doug Mastriano Dragged the Pennsylvania GOP Down With Him Last Year. Now He Wants To Run For Senate
Democrats Can't Believe Their Good Fortune Republicans faired poorly in Pennsylvania last cycle. The banner race for the open red Senate...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Can Pennsylvania Be A Model To Solve The McCarthy Problem?
16 Republicans Join The Democrats To Elect Mark Rozzi Speaker House Republicans are reeling. McCarthy had all of November and December to...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 27, 2022
- 5 min
Democrats Won In Pennsylvania, Right? But The Republicans May Still Be Able To End Choice!
Democrats did well across the board in Pennsylvania this year. In the two marquee races, John Fetterman beat Dr. Oz for the open Senate...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 5, 2022
- 8 min
Many White Rural Pennsylvanians Identify As Confederates-- Including Their Gubernatorial Candidate
FiveThirtyEight’s most current Pennsylvania forecast has Democrat Josh Shapiro beating Republican Doug Mastriano 53.9% to 44.1%, almost...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 4, 2022
- 5 min
How Many House Seats Will The Republican Party's Reverse Coattails Cost Them?
Yesterday, Kevin McCarthy’s SuperPAC announced big spends amounting to $14 million in 15 target districts, including $2 million to defend...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 29, 2022
- 4 min
If Doug Mastriano And His MAGA Fans Really Fast For 40 Days, Many Will Die-- Bad News For QAnon
As I’ve mentioned over the years, I used to work at a macrobiotic restaurant in Amsterdam; it was part of De Kosmos, the meditation...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 25, 2022
- 9 min
What Has Trump Done To The GOP's Midterm Campaign?
Three Conversations With Donald Trump is a promotional excerpt from Maggie Haberman’s controversial new book, Confidence Man: The Making...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 18, 2022
- 6 min
The Republican Party's "Jim Bognet Problem"-- Lots Of Really Bad General Election Candidates
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...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 17, 2022
- 6 min
Do The MAGA Rallies Do Trump's Candidates More Harm Than Good?
The Kiss Of Death Comes To Youngstown Today Ohio has veered hard into red territory over the last decade. It stretches the imagination to...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 15, 2022
- 5 min
GOP Establishment-- Crawling From The Wreckage Of Primary Season
Last night, David Weigel took a look at the battered GOP establishment crawling from the wreckage of their disastrous primary strategy,...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
If It Quacks Like A Duck…
Garcinia Cambogia, Forskolin & The Holy Grail Of Cancer Prevention I just couldn’t’ resist. It’s such a perfect ad and so just wonderful...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 4, 2022
- 6 min
Señor Trumpanzee Does Wilkes-Barre
It was Trump’s first rally since the espionage case against him blew wide open… so you can imagine the candidates he was pretending to be...
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