We’re less than two weeks from election day, so it’s time to start writing the post-mortems.
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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The election lurking under the bed
Will hysteria over the Ebola virus drive midterm voters to the right?
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Congress needs another Watergate to boost popularity
Congress is more adept at fear-mongering (see: the Ebola virus) than at substantive debate.
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Can ISIS and Ebola scare up voters?
Democrats and Republicans seek to tie global crises to their midterm opponents.
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Identity Politics: What happens when faith is put to a vote?
Fifty years ago this fall, the Democrats won their highest percentage ever in a presidential election, and Catholics formed the party’s bedrock constituency. Still reeling from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Catholics voted for his successor, Lyndon Johnson, by a margin of three to one
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I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of my own political party
Democratic senate candidate in K.Y. a champion of ballot-box privacy
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Don’t mention the wheelchair
Wendy Davis’s campaign ad reminding voters of her opponent’s disability backfires.
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Voter ID laws and political legitimacy
On Thursday a federal judge struck down Texas rsquo s voter ID law which requires citizens to produce photo identification in order to cast ballots in federal and state elections The law does not make the same demands of those mailing in absentee ballots U S District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos
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The myth of flip-flops
Will voters penalize senate candidate for changing his position on personhood?
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SCOTUS keeps gay marriage out of the streets
A mass rally by gay marriage opponents would serve little purpose at this point.