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Republicans should rethink idea-free campaigns

by Ramesh Ponnuru Democrats ran in 2020 on a long list of policies they planned to enact and implement, and now they are going through the agony of trying to make good on their promises. Republicans have found a foolproof way to avoid that pain: They’re not going to campaign on any ...

Thanks to gerrymandering, GOP can continue to behave abominably

by Jackie Calmes House Republicans began the year with nearly two-thirds of them voting against ratifying Joe Biden’s election. In doing so, they allied with the insurrectionists, incited by Donald Trump, who’d stormed the Capitol just hours before to prevent the constitutionally ...

Democrats have a messaging problem

by Jackie Calmes Democrats have a messaging problem, as you’ve no doubt heard since their recent election losses. The problem hardly started with President Joe Biden. Weak messaging has defined Democrats for most of the years I’ve covered them. Theirs is a diverse, fractious ...

Pennsylvania leapt further right on Election Night

Voters in the Keystone State, as in Virginia, took Nov. 2’s election as an opportunity to rebut Democrats’ overreach. With mail-in ballots still pending, Republicans are poised to sweep all four of Pennsylvania’s statewide judicial elections. They also made gains in municipal ...

GOP can be for Medicaid expansion

by Sara Pequeño More than 1 in 10 people in North Carolina are living without health insurance. They’re working in construction, retail or manufacturing. They’re cooks and nursing assistants, janitors and truck drivers. From the Nantahala Forest to the Outer Banks, the uninsured ...

What the Virginia election outcome means for West Virginia

I keep wondering when the West Virginia Democratic Party is going to get some encouraging news, but the bad news just keeps coming. Democratic office holders switch parties, the Republican Party continues to outpace the Democrats in voter registration (38% to 35%), and now neighboring ...