Ron Elving
Stories
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Politics
Will Trump give the familiar VP storyline a new makeover in Milwaukee?
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Politics
Mike Johnson and the troubled history of recent Republican speakers
Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration.
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Week in politics: Republicans' House majority dwindles; Sen. Joe Liberman dies
The Republican majority in the House narrows, making it harder for the party to accomplish the agenda and more likely to compromise with Democrats. Also, remembering the late Sen. Joe Lieberman.
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Ohio has been a bellwether and a battleground: What is it telling us now?
Ohio was the model bellwether state until 2020. In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent President Donald Trump, but he still lost the White House to Joe Biden.
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Haley as a holdout could still be more than a speed bump for Trump
History shows that when the major party nominees for president have not cleared the field of notable challengers before summer, they tend to lose in the fall.
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Generations after its heyday, isolationism is alive and kicking up controversy
For a time, the phrase "America First" seemed an artifact of the prewar world. But the idea that the U.S. would do better by holding the rest of the world at arm's length never entirely disappeared.
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Impeachment may not remove an official but even using the word leaves a mark
"Impeachment talk" becomes the political conversation and an object of obsessive fascination for the news media. Whatever else is happening, impeachment talk is guaranteed airtime and clicks.
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Early polls don't always foretell the fate of a first-term president. Does anything?
If polls are not perfect predictors of an incumbent's reelection, is there something else that is? Observers have long sought the True North by which to set their compass and their expectations.
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Liz Cheney is back and unloading on the current leaders of her ancestral GOP
There is no good time for a book as critical of one's own party as Oath and Honor, but it is particularly uncomfortable for the GOP to be taking these punches right now.
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As Biden celebrates his birthday, candles on the cake are adding to a problem
A birthday and a spate of bad polls highlight the one weakness Biden cannot really address. He was 78 when he took office. He'd be 86 leaving a second term.