Berry Craig: Buy Your Governor — The sale looks like the real deal. It is complete with a color photo of the Capitol, a seller handle–“carpetbaggerbevin”– an offer for free standard shipping and a returns policy: “Buyer pays to have seller returned to New Hampshire.” Bevin grew up in the Granite State.
Election Reform
Election Reform
How to Lose an Election. Repeatedly.
George A. Polisner: Your role as a candidate for office is to lead—state your position, prepare an emotionally connecting argument in support of it and bring people to you. This is how you lead.
NRA Loses Its Grip
Berry Craig: An apparently growing number of Democrats running for the state legislature are bucking the gun lobby. Some are tossing NRA candidate surveys in the trash. Others are responding with rebukes. A pair of House members lit into the NRA in headline-grabbing floor speeches.
One Way to Respond to Foreign Ops in Our Elections
Michael Feinstein: One reason disinformation campaigns can have influence in the U.S., is because voters often lack sufficient real information about the choices before them.
Trump Tide Sounds Retreat: Conor Lamb in PA-18
Lamb’s performance shows us that blue collar, less-educated populations are still open to appeals by the right kind of Democrat: relatively conservative on issues like guns or abortion, pro-union, pro-safety net programs like Medicare and even Obamacare.
Can Alonzo Pennington Thumbpick His Way into Congress?
Berry Craig: Pennington, 38, is a guitarist-singer-songwriter whose new gig is running for Congress on the Democratic ticket in his native western Kentucky.
Putting Country Over Party in Kentucky House Race
Berry Craig: In an “editor’s note,” McGrath, one of a half-dozen Democrats running in the May 22 Democratic primary, described Barr as a “man who never put on the uniform to defend our country.” Added McGrath, “Party over country is all Barr understands.”
Reggie Thomas: A Profile in Courage in Kentucky
Berry Craig: A state senator, Thomas knows the political peril of crossing the gun lobby in the Red State Bluegrass State, where most Democrats sound like Republicans on the so-called social issues, including guns.
A New Way of Life Launches Jail Voter Registration Efforts
Christin Runkle: The initiative complements ANWOL’s ongoing work to register voters in communities of color in South LA, Compton, Pomona and Long Beach and provide education around ballot initiatives including Proposition 47, Measure M and Measure H.
Blue State/Red District: The Great Awakening of CD-48
Judith Lewis Mernit: In the swank seaside hamlets of California Congressional District 48, people by custom and habit do not discuss politics. Many cannot name their congressman, Dana Rohrabacher.
Should Dems Hope Arpaio Wins Arizona’s GOP Senate Nomination?
Peter Dreier: An Arpaio candidacy would make it more likely that a Democrat will win the Senate seat next November, similar to Doug Jones’s defeat of Roy Moore for the Alabama Senate seat last month.
Small Newspapers Could Have Huge Impact on Beto O’Rourke-Ted Cruz Senate Race
Stephen Fox: After putting to rest Roy Moore in Alabama, Texas is the political race that interests me the most as both a political and intellectual challenge, like a chess game from afar, is El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s challenge of Cruz.
You Want an Inforwar, Fine
Tom Hastings: Name the meddlesome crime of collaboration with foreign election tampering and impeach this imposter, this embarrassment, this pimple on the hindparts of democracy.
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