The GOP Has A Big Fat Albatross Hanging Around Its Neck
With no legislative agenda— or at least not one that the public has any interest in supporting— Republicans seemed to think they would...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 20
- 3 min
Which GOP Candidates Are MAGAty (And Transactional) Enough To Earn The Trump Seal Of Approval?
I had a chat with the progressive Democrat running for a central Oregon congressional seat, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. We were wondering if...
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Howie Klein
- May 23
- 8 min
Republican Candidates Are Very Wary Of The Trump Kiss Of Death Going Into The 2024 Cycle
Writing for the Washington Post yesterday, Michael Scherer, Emily Guskin and Scott Clement reported what most political observers already...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 12
- 5 min
Trump's Ubiquitous Presence As The Face Of GOP Politics Is Dooming Their Candidates Again
The Tufts Public Opinion Lab is dedicated to studying contemporary controversies in American public opinion using quantitative data...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 31
- 7 min
Trump's Kiss Of Death For 2024 Will Be Even More Lethal For Republicans Than It Was Last Year!
The Indictment-- And More Jonathan Chait’s column on how Trump is using DeSantis’ record on Social Security and Medicare to destroy his...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 9
- 3 min
There's Not Much Of A Democratic Party In Nebraska, But There Is Quite A GOP Civil War Going On
Last May, in a nine-way Republican gubernatorial primary in Nebraska, the establishment conservative, Jim Pillen, beat the Trump-backed...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 21, 2022
- 14 min
The Democrats Are Lucky Trump Didn't Accept His 2020 Defeat And Disappear Like A Mensch
Yesterday, the Ways and Means Committee voted, 24-16, to release Trump’s tax returns from 2015 through 2020. Every Republican voted...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
Guess Who Had A Really Lousy, Anxiety-Ridden Day Yesterday
Hasn’t that been swell of Señor Trumpanzee to be paying the lawyers fees for the witnesses in his probable treason trial? On Monday...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 6, 2022
- 6 min
Don't Just Blame Trump... Blame The Pusillanimous Republican Politicians Who Enabled Him
Georgia, 2016: Trump beat Hillary by just over 5 points— 2,089,104 (50.8%) to 1,877,963 (45.6%). Democratic presidential candidates had...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 21, 2022
- 6 min
The Republican Party Is Rapidly Becoming A Dark, Forbidding Place For Trump; He'll Fight For Control
A new poll for Politico by Morning Consult, asked registered voters how important are a long series of issues-- that Fox and the GOP are...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 20, 2022
- 5 min
Why The New Jersey GOP Was Unable To Live Up To It's Expectations This Year-- One Word: Trumpanzee
Patrick Murray is the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Writing for the Star Ledger this morning, he noted that in...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 14, 2022
- 5 min
A Reckonin' Is Comin' In GOP-World
Politico reported today that Trump is going ahead with his announcement tomorrow that he’s running for president. They reported that “One...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 14, 2022
- 3 min
Trump Drumming Up A Dump Mitch Drive Among Senate Republicans To Take The Onus Of Defeat Off Himself
I’m positive Trump planned to swagger out on the stage Wednesday and take credit for the red tsunami and especially congratulate himself...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 13, 2022
- 5 min
Trumpism Has Metastasized Throughout The Republican Party; It's All They Are Now
Will Trump Burn Down The Party On His Way Out? Paul Mulshine is the in-house conservative at the Newark Star-Ledger. If the Lord of...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 12, 2022
- 7 min
Will The Republican Party Establishment Get Revenge Against Trump-- Or Will He Beat Them Again?
I was just looking at the list of Pennsylvania members off Congress from 2006, when Blue America was just getting started. The last one...
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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
- Oct 3, 2022
- 5 min
Dems Banking On Their Lesser Of Two Evils Strategy Again-- It's All "Trump, Trump, Trump, Abortion"
Yesterday, reporting for the Washington Post, Yasmeen Abutaleb wrote that “the Democrats’ newly dark [midterm] message is a gamble. Biden...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 2, 2022
- 5 min
Did The Trump & Traitor Greene MAGA Rally In Michigan Make Things Even Worse For GOP Candidates?
Early Voting In Michigan Began Thursday Last night, Trump’s opening act for the 5,000 MAGAts at the Macomb County Community College...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 30, 2022
- 5 min
The GOP Has Already Raised The White Flag In Michigan For 2022-- No Red Wave There
Last night, the NY Times reported that “As a freshman congressman in 2013, Ron DeSantis was unambiguous: A federal bailout for the New...
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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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