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Robert David Sullivan
Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine. From 2013 to 2016 he wrote a political column called (Un)Conventional Wisdom.
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Partisanship, not anxiety, may be driving the election
Satisfaction with the economy is high, but it’s hardly universal.
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Half of America is losing people, and Trump is benefiting
The GOP establishment has vanished from population-loss counties.
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Trump invites everyone to the Big Carnival
A cynical Billy Wilder movie captures the 2016 campaign.
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Regional patterns persist on another Super Tuesday
Ohio follows the South in boosting Trump and Clinton.
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Trump needs Nixon-level support among white males to take the White House
Resentment toward changes in American life resulted in a landslide in 1972.
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Trump shows strength in most and least Catholic regions
If Trump is the white Catholic consensus candidate, late primaries look good for him.
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Trump shows Bloomberg the right way to beat the two-party system
A hostile takeover of GOP proves more effective than trying to rise above party.
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Trump and Clinton benefit from regional dominance
Clinton takes the old Confederacy and Trump sweeps Appalachia.
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Trump poised to triumph over Republican orthodoxy
The front-runner is promising not to let people “die in the streets.”