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Unhappy independents will decide this election

I’m always astonished when I hear political consultants cling to the notion that winning majorities in the House and the Senate is only about turning out the base. Neither party — neither MAGA nor the progressive left — have the numbers to make that claim anymore. For the doubters out there, according to the Edison […]

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An autopsy of the DNC campaign autopsy

After weeks of stalling, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin finally released the long-awaited campaign autopsy to nearly universal bad reviews.   What the DNC needed was a candid after-action report.   What they got was an extraordinarily incomplete post-mortem that fails to get to the heart of what worked, what didn’t and why.   The party is […]