The myth of the transformative election
The midterms follow a predictable pattern, which offers no guide to presidential contests. Why pretend otherwise?
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Saturday
Election recounts are a sign of a healthy democracy
Americans are more eager than ever to get results right
Friday
Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to Jim Acosta
The CNN man gets to amplify his role as victim of a nefarious administration
Thursday
Melania Trump: America’s Iron First Lady
Did the President’s wife break the glass ceiling?
Wednesday
It’s the Ocasio-Cortez party now — Nancy Pelosi is just leading it
Pelosi will most likely keep the speaker’s gavel. But she is being left behind by the new-look Democratic Party
Monday
Donald Trump, Democratic president?
Trump should go back to his roots with Chuck and Nancy
Beware the Trumpy Bear
This advert will truly give you paws for thought
The Democratic hype around Beto O’Rourke 2020 smacks of desperation
The Democrats have yet to adapt to a political world where Obama is no longer the big, bright sun of the political universe
Friday
Trump dodges tough questions by feigning forgetfulness
Does the President know Matt Whitaker?
How Trump wins the Rust Belt again in 2020
It’s time to ditch the Paul Ryan legislative agenda and play nice with Nancy
Don’t blame Libertarians or Greens when your party loses
In defense of third-party voters
Thursday
George Conway weighs in on (il)legality of Sessions firing
Kellyanne’s husband calls Matthew Whitaker a ‘nobody’ who has been appointed at Trump’s whim
Jim Acosta: the Don Quixote of fake news
I have at times wondered whether Jim Acosta pays the president a retainer for making him such a recognizable figure
Wednesday
The midterms delivered a feeble rivulet, not a blue wave
The effort to Make America Great Again will continue, just a little more slowly and circuitously than it would have done had the Republicans held the house
It wasn’t a blue wave yesterday, but a purple one
The President pulled out the stops to keep the Senate – and he has reason to gloat here, as he already is
Stalingrad approaches: Democratic House, Republican Senate
Compared to 1994, 2006, and 2010, this would appear a tamer reaction to an embattled president
Tuesday
Does a Democratic House win pave the way to impeachment?
The Democrats are now in the majority on committees with subpoena power
Political tides have made the ‘blue wave’ impossible
The presidential election of 2016 should have taught pundits and politicos not to trust the polls. But the nation’s most highly educated seem to be the slowest to learn
As Florida goes, so goes the nation?
It was the beginning of the end for the Left in 2016 and DeSantis and Scott are doing well in the early going. Redux?
Only an idiot would predict tonight’s midterm results. So let me oblige
Trump is so divisive that the networks couldn’t agree on who he was dividing
