There have been actual mysteries in this country. What happened to the missing 18½ minutes on the Nixon tapes? Was there an actual “October surprise” in the 1980 presidential election? Why did anyone ever take George W. Bush seriously? This “mystery” is not one of them. To quote the renowned American philosopher Nasir Jones, it […]
1980 Presidential election
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We Have Met the Climate Enemy, and He Is Us
It’s about time we grapple with the ultimate inconvenient truth.
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Exiled by Main Street: Will Republican Voter Self-Suppression Manifest Itself in 2020?
Unlike his affair with Stormy Daniels, he may not get lucky again. A year ago, Bernard L. Fraga, Brian Schaffner, Jesse Rhodes and Sean McElwee observed in the Washington Post that “[W]hat’s clear is that the jump in white turnout in key swing states and drop in black turnout [in the 2016 presidential election] may […]
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John Kasich Will Run in 2020–His Mouth, That Is
One would have to be a king-sized fool to think he’ll actually do it. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, appearing alongside former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as he mulls a primary challenge to President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Republican Party has “never been my master” and that “all of my options are on the […]
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Rocky Road: Enough Already of the Dwayne Johnson Presidential Talk
I felt a little embarrassed for Jonathan Allen of NBC News last week when, in a piece about potential challengers to Donald Trump in 2020, he wrote the following: Former Vice President Joe Biden is going to look a lot like a presidential candidate this year. He plans to raise money for Senate Democratic incumbents, […]
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After Charlottesville, A Time for Choosing
C’mon everybody This is your life I’m talking about a revolution We gotta organize We don’t need no segregation We don’t need no race New age revelation? I think we got a case –Prince, “Sexuality,” 1981 You know who you are. Not the white nationalists, the all-wrong “alt-right,” the folks who want to make America […]
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It Keeps You Runnin’
Here’s another nightmare scenario to ponder, even if it might seem a bit remote: what if Donald Trump loses the 2016 Presidential election by a margin so close that he could actually come back four years from now? There’s a reason why the New York Daily News ran that editorial last week expressing hope that […]
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Kennedy’s Woman Problem—Women’s Kennedy Problem
The intelligent woman’s guide to the touchiest issue of the 1980 campaign.
