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Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine.
Catholic youths pray for democracy outside Hong Kong's government headquarters building on Sept. 30. (CNS photo/Francis Wong)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
(Un)Conventional Wisdom on the midterm races from Robert D. Sullivan.
No time for subtlety: an image from a commercial for Bruce Braley, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Will campaign promises make substantive entitlement reform harder to achieve?
Don't make him do it. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Perhaps encouraged by that David Brooks column in which he swoons over the ldquo responsible elite rdquo people in Mitt Romney rsquo s circle are putting out vibrations of another presidential run in 2016 The Washington Examiner rsquo s Byron York revealed all in a Wednesday column ldquo Romne
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders. (CNS photo/Jason Reed, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Will a "porous, self-conscious and responsible elite" fix what ails the U.S.?
Members of the Women's Political Union promote a march in the early 20th century (Library of Congress)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Barred from voting, 19th-century women perfected art of door-to-door campaigning.
Dejected independence supporters in Glasgow, Scotland (CNS photo/Paul Hackett, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom for Robert D. Sullivan
President Obama and the Democrats can't expect a "splendid little war" dividend.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Foreign crises are complicating the Democratic Party’s plans to win the midterms.
It's an anti-incumbent election!
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Little chance of a “throw the bums out,” anti-incumbent result in midterms.
The brutalism of local government. (Boston City Hall image from Wikipedia)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Are local governments the biggest threat to civil liberties in the United States?
Why not give both of them something to do after the election? (Image from NBC's Parks and Recreation)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Slate rsquo s Reihan Salam has a piece on ldquo The Biggest Problem in American Politics rdquo which is that he rsquo s a conservative in New York City and is thus always on the losing side in congressional elections But he rsquo s not speaking only for the ldquo Reaganites rdquo in NYC ldqu