Posts Tagged ‘Congress’
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The Over-Under for the House GOP This Fall
Posted on September 4, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) So, what’s the over-under for House Republicans? Politico suggested earlier this week that if the GOP won only six seats this...
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Nasty, Brutish and Short: The Lame Duck
Posted on August 27, 2014
So, if the Senate flips, what will the lame duck session of Congress look like? If history is any judge, like life for Thomas Hobbes, it will be nasty, brutish...
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The Five P’s of Predicting a Winner In An Mid-Term Senate Election
Posted on August 25, 2014
People ask me how I rate the Senate races. Here is my handy-dandy guide that you can use at home. Possession is 9/10’s of the law: If you are an...
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The Passing of Jim Jeffords
Posted on August 19, 2014
In the opening months of the 107th Congress, with the House firmly in Republican hands but the Senate tied fifty-fifty, rumors started flying. Was somebody going to switch parties to...
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Whew! House Passes Supplemental!
Posted on August 1, 2014
Published in the Christian Science Monitor Decoder Voices Some late-night observations about the House-passed Supplemental bill: It’s not a perfect bill. It’s probably not even a very good bill. But...
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