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An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover. Think of the ...

It all started with a claim by Anthony Rapp that while attending a party in the home of Kevin Spacey in 1986, the actor got drunk, threw him on a bed and jumped on top of him. Also an actor, Rapp was 14 at the time, and Spacey was 26. Spacey denied ...

Now that states have begun to wrap up their vote counts, we can talk with more authority about the results from 2024. There's been a fair amount of introspection already from Democrats, combined with the usual gnashing of teeth that accompanies a ...

The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us. The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registrations since 2020, when Donald Trump had lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand ...

As the Boeing Dreamliner that is the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign falls apart in midair, many of the GOP campaigns I speak to as a political consultant are in a holding pattern, eating their proverbial popcorn and waiting for the dust to ...

Elections have consequences, and the coming of Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2008 hit the manufacturing and defense industrial base of the battleground state of Pennsylvania particularly hard. According to the Keystone State's own Department of ...

The past month has likely been the most eventful in American political history. Yet the two top officials of the most powerful nation in the world won't answer any genuine questions. Three weeks have passed since Joe Biden was pushed out of the 2024 ...

As one of the most contentious presidential elections in history heads to the wire, Washington, D.C.'s newest tourist attraction has just opened, and its focus on civic education cannot come at a more critical time. America's billion-dollar ...

Vote. Don't vote. I don't care. Just stop telling me that Vice President Kamala Harris is going to save democracy. Do I wish Republicans had nominated a more coherent, principled, competent candidate for the presidency? Of course. But if anyone is ...

The American Dream was built on a promise of equality - a promise of equality in terms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. During the 2024 election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both working overtime to say why Republicans or ...