Why I am not a Democrat (nor a Republican)Phillip Barron
An elephant bearing the title of "Republican Vote" bounded clumsily toward a pit labeled "inflation" and "chaos." The elephant represented the effects of Copperhead Democrat scare tactics, as well as the confused behemoth that Nast felt many Republican voters and publications had become. After ...
The real answer is the Republican base is far more entrenched, institutionally, than was the old Democratic base. And its power is concentrated in certain states — most of the old Confederacy plus Arizona, Alaska, Indiana, and Wisconsin — which together exert more of a choke-hold on the R...
independents and sometimes even moderate Republicans pour money into nasty Democrat vs. Democrat battles made possible by California’s new “top-two” primary. And with the state Republican Party still searching for a path back from decades of decline, ...
On the other side of the ledger, if Trump loses, it will be for a similarly simple reason. It will not be because the Harris campaign (and the Liz Cheney “hungry for the promised GOP Harris Cabinet slot” Trump-hating Republican crowd) are trying to make him out to be the next comin...
And finally, not every third-party voter would vote for a Democrat or Republican if their preferred candidate didn’t run, so we can’t assume that, say, a Green Party voter would back a Democrat or a Libertarian would vote Republican....
One was the Republican one was the Democrat. Alfie Fanjul was the single largest contributor in Florida to the Clinton campaign, and his brother was the largest contributor to Republican Bob Dole campaign. They had it covered either way. ...
One was the Republican one was the Democrat. Alfie Fanjul was the single largest contributor in Florida to the Clinton campaign, and his brother was the largest contributor to Republican Bob Dole campaign. They had it covered either way. ...
But Republicans hate her, you might say. That’s true. But they hate Joe Biden, too — and if they didn’t immediately hate anyone who replaced him, they would quickly learn to. There might be Republican-leaning voters who wouldn’t vote in a Trump-Biden matchup but would turn out aga...
Both the Republican and Democrat parties have been effective in convincing voters that party affiliation is more important than the person running. However, there are limitations with such a position. This was most blatantly demonstrated in the 2022 Senate runoff in Georgia, whenDemocrat Raphael Warno...