February 9, 2016
New Hampshire
Here are some quick thoughts about tonight’s primary election: Hillary Clinton got 39% of the vote tonight. She also got 39% in 2008. She was a loser tonight. She won 8 years ago. The difference? In 2008, she beat Barack...
February 9, 2016
3 Things Political Strategists Are Watching in New Hampshire Primary Results
(Full article posted in the Wall Street Journal.) New Hampshire doesn’t necessarily pick winners, but it can sure winnow out the losers. 1. Who will still have donors going into South Carolina? If you don’t have the benjamins, you can’t...
February 9, 2016
All bets are off in NH
(Originally published in The Hill) Like most Americans, I thought the Denver Broncos were going to get crushed by the Carolina Panthers. Cam Newton was too good. Peyton Manning was too old. Of course, it didn’t work out that way....
February 5, 2016
The Artful Smear
“She is pink, right down to her underwear.” That’s what Richard Nixon accused Helen Gaughan Thomas of in the battle for California’s Senate seat in 1950. ”Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless...
February 5, 2016
Exposé: FAA’s “NextGen” Program Trumps Previous Cases of Government Malfeasance
(Originally published on The Common Trust.) by Brian Robertson and Rob Wasinger Struggling to understand the Trump phenomenon has become a full time job for many members of the GOP establishment inside the Washington Beltway who view the prospect of...
February 4, 2016
Experience Doesn’t Seem to Matter (But Maybe It Should)
It used to be that voters would pick Governors over Senators in Presidential races. Governors had executive experience, went the theory. That practical experience made them better leaders, more rational decision makers, less ideological and more able to win general...