Reagan Did Not Wait Until The Last Minute

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  September 30th at 12:45 PM  | 

The 2012 presidential election season has not been a normal one in many ways. History teaches us that every election season brings something new we haven’t seen before – but also that progress in electioneering, as in most walks of life, is more gradual than people are wont to predict. The candidate who says “this time, everything is different” or “the old rules don’t apply” | Read More »

Yes, All Politics Is Local

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  November 4th at 03:27 PM  | 

Republicans are – rightly – crowing this morning about the GOP’s victories in the New Jersey Governor’s race and a battery of races in Virginia from the Governorship on down and what they say about the turn in the national mood, if not in a pro-Republican direction then at least in a direction that’s sufficiently hostile to the Democrats that voters in states won by | Read More »