Today’s report that the country’s gross domestic product grew just 0.6 percent in the 1st quarter of the year is one more page of bad news for GOP strategists. As Dr. Loveland pointed out in a comment yesterday, GDP growth is a fairly reliable predictor of elections in this country: when 2nd quarter GDP [...]
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This re-punctuated Beatles lyric pretty much sums up the wishes of any number of Democrats who find the whole nomination process at little too Hobbesian - nasty, brutish, and - in this instance - long. What we Dems need, the thinking goes, is “this thing settled” before we so damage the eventual nominee that [...]
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The Minnesota Republican Party was savvy to immediately launch a television ad blistering the transportation tax increase passed by a bipartisan super-majority in the Legislature.
It’s not a particularly good ad. It looks like a thousand other doomsday political attack ads, and its glum tone is so over-the-top that many will tune out. [...]
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