They'll be back. Don't think for a minute that they won't. ...more

November 22, 2008

The presidential election had no sooner been called than the tussling began in largely congruent Republican and conservative circles about the whither question. Should the party and movement shift left or right? ...more

November 15, 2008

It will be 35 years this week since President Richard Nixon, responding to an Arab oil embargo, vowed to make the United States energy independent - and do it in seven years. ...more

November 4, 2008

By midnight Tuesday, millions of conservatives probably will believe that the nation, foundering on the reefs of sin, is ruined. And millions of "progressives," emboldened to embrace truth in labeling by again calling themselves liberals, probably will have decided that Heaven is at hand, the nation revived like a flower in an April shower. ...more

November 2, 2008

Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America's divisions - divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions - he was able to reinvent the Republican brand. The party of plutocrats was repackaged as the party of the "silent majority," the regular guys - white guys, it went without saying - who didn't like the social changes taking place. ...more

October 21, 2008

John McCain and Barack Obama meet Friday at the University of Mississippi for their first of three 90-minute debates -- showdowns that experts say could be their last best chances to move undecided voters. ...more

September 23, 2008

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September 17, 2008

Charlie Crist, who was considered a possible running mate to Republican presidential candidate John McCain before Sarah Palin got the nod, is one of several Florida governors who had a chance at the second top spot and lost it. ...more

September 14, 2008

She covered nine presidents and never backed off asking the hard questions. ...more

August 17, 2008

Looking back over the last 40 years, the presidential campaign that most closely resembles this year's is the contest between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1976. The Republicans were the incumbent presidential party that year, as they are now, but the Democrats had a big advantage in party identification - on the order of 49 percent to 26 percent then, far more than today. ...more

July 20, 2008