What do you get for the person who has no one The U S Census Bureau reminds us that next Sunday is the beginning of Unmarried and Single Americans Week a nod to the 44 percent of adults who do not have a spouse The Census notes that unmarried Americans are forming an increasingly large voting bl
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.
Posted in(Un)Conventional Wisdom
New York Gets Tired of Itself
Today is the first round of the New York mayor rsquo s race which got more national attention than usual because of the possibility that former congressman and smutty-photo tweeter Anthony Weiner would win inspiring stories about how Americans like redemption stories and are getting more Europea
Posted in(Un)Conventional Wisdom
The never-ending everything
Welcome to Un Conventional Wisdom a new blog on the America website Un Conventional Wisdom will focus on American politics offering observations on current issues and presenting original research UCW will not be a tout sheet There are already scores of pundits who are in the habit of making pr
Posted inIn All Things
Seeing Red and Blue
We are happy to have this post-election analysis from Robert David Sullivan who blogged about the presidential and vice-presidential debates for America You can read his blog on politics and TV here and his analysis of the 2008 election nbsp here — Tim Reidy The most striking aspect of the 201
Posted inIn All Things
Parsing the Third Debate
Once again we are pleased to have debate analysis from Robert David Sullivan My quick analysis before diving into Twitter and the blogosphere Once again Moderate Mitt made it through a presidential debate without getting unmasked or unmoored by President Barack Obama Romney used his closing s
Posted inIn All Things
Parsing the Second Debate
Once again we are pleased to have debate analysis from Robert David Sullivan My quick analysis before diving into Twitter and the blogosphere I suspect that President Obama will get a little jump in the polls over the next few days but mainly as a reaction to the ldquo Wow Romney might actual
Posted inTelevision
Debating the Debates: Will they have any effect on the fall election?
Will they have any effect on the fall election?
Posted inIn All Things
The Veep Debate 2012
Once again we are pleased to have Robert David Sullivan offering his analysis of the latest debate As with the first presidential debate I rsquo m putting down my thoughts without hearing or reading any analysis or tweets and I can rsquo t imagine Obama supporters feeling reassured right now T
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Parsing the Presidential Debate
We are pleased to have this analysis of the first presidential debate from Robert David Sullivan.
