In the early days of 1999, Sen. Joseph Biden was walking through the basement of the Senate’s Richard Russell Office Building when he was approached by a reporter.Earlier in the day, Republican Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania had ventured an opinion on the impeachment trial of President Bill ...
America has just witnessed a six-year presidential campaign, filtered through a lackluster presidency, that ended with a thud.That’s the Donald Trump presidency in a nutshell.He traveled the country, standing on makeshift stages, ad-libbing punchlines while making vague references to thin ...
Following the presidential election of 1948, President Harry Truman took the train back to Washington, D.C., from his home in Independence, Mo. En route he stopped in St. Louis, where someone handed him a copy of the Chicago Tribune with its notoriously incorrect headline, “Dewey Defeats ...
Elections are partisan; they are politics by division. We choose sides in elections. For most of our history, the choice has been a binary one – the Democratic side or the Republican side.A Gallup poll released on Thursday shows just how divided, by party, we are: an overwhelming 95% of ...
Teddy White wasn’t being the least bit romantic when, 60 years ago, he wrote this:“The power [to govern] passes invisibly in the night as Election Day ends; the national vigil includes all citizens: and when consensus is reached, the successful candidate must accept the decision in the same ...
This has to be one of the biggest coincidences in the history of American politics.I may contact a mathematician who can figure out the odds that both of Donald Trump’s Democratic opponents have been “criminals.”You simply can’t make this stuff up, unless you’re Trump in need of a ...