Robert David Sullivan

(Un)Conventional Wisdom blogger Robert D. Sullivan on the real Romney, on and off screen.

States ranked on factors such as high school graduation rates, per capita income, life expectancy and crime rate.

RealClearPolitics rsquo Sean Trende assesses this fall rsquo s U S Senate races and concludes that the GOP is being underestimated Based on 2010 and 2012 election data Trende writes ldquo Senate races begin to converge on presidential approval doubtless a function of the much-remarked-upon po

The documentary Mitt premieres later this week on Netflix and the New York Times interviewed the former presidential nominee about his campaign experiences Romney exercises the prerogative of rejected candidates and offers suggestions on how the republic can avoid repeating its terrible decision

NPR reports that a state judge has struck down Pennsylvania rsquo s voter ID law ruling that it imposes a ldquo substantial threat rdquo to the rights of hundreds of thousands of voters The law had been challenged by a 93-year-old who didn rsquo t have a driver rsquo s license and lacked access

After David Weigel ripped it apart quot a strange bit of make-work that offers almost zero insight about politics quot I had to visit the Brookings Institution rsquo s Congressional Moneyball site and it rsquo s even worse than I imagined Sports metaphors are overused in hacky political analys

Like two alley cats backing away from each other the Democratic and Republican parties in most states have become more polarized over the past two decades making it harder to pass legislation with the support of both liberals and conservatives And California mdash which has adopted such electio

It rsquo s easy to despair over the political media rsquo s obsession with scandal and election strategy but Pope Francis rsquo statements on economic inequality mdash paired with the news hook of the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson rsquo s War on Poverty mdash haven rsquo t gone unnoticed

nbsp The Center for Responsive Politics estimates that for the first time in history a majority of the members of Congress during the last session were millionaires Of 534 current members of Congress at least 268 had an average net worth of 1 million or more in 2012 according to disclosures fi