by Michael Hiltzik Presidential campaigns start earlier and earlier these days, and so too do pleas that politics in the U.S. would be so much more effective if we could, in the words of Rodney King, “all just get along.” So here comes the purportedly centrist political group No ...
by Ramesh Ponnuru The founders of a new political party, “Forward,” acknowledge that third parties usually fail. They say that previous third-party efforts flopped “either because they were ideologically too narrow or the population was uninterested.” Theirs will succeed, ...
by Lynn Schmidt Horseshoes may be good for horses and fun to play with, but they are terrible for politics. In political science there is an assertion called the Horseshoe Theory. The thesis posits that the political spectrum is not linear but shaped like the bend of a horseshoe, ...
Brian Murray knows just how fierce an opponent Arizona’s Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be. The Republican strategist saw his candidate lose to Democrat Sinema in their 2012 race for the House. Calling the experience “unpleasant,” Murray admits his candidate, Vernon Parker, was flawed, but ...