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, 鈥淒ewey 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 鈥� 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鈥檛 being the least bit romantic when, 60 years ago, he wrote this:鈥淭he 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 ...
Four more years of the present trend will result in one of the worst crack-ups in American history. The pace we are on is simply unsustainable. Soon we鈥檒l be the laughingstocks of the world. Maybe we already are. We used to snicker, hearing about five-hour-long cricket matches. Cricket!The ...
The thing is Joe Biden doesn鈥檛 have to be Ronald Reagan 鈥� a superb politician blessed with an abundance of personal magnetism 鈥� to look good against Donald Trump.He just has to be competent. Their first (and maybe last) presidential debate showed why: the president ranted and raved, ...
The other day in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a police officer, speaking on the phone with a man inside his home, politely but firmly urged him to come outside. The man鈥檚 wife standing nearby explained that her husband had threatened to kill himself and harm others. After fleeing the house ...