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DCCC Announced Its Target List For 2026— They Should Put More Energy Into Recruiting Good Candidates
Today's List Is Conservative And Unimaginative But, For Them, OK They're gone... but the DCCC is determined to find plenty just like them...
Howie Klein
Apr 82 min read
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Bannon Is Right About One Thing: "Musk Is A Parasitic Illegal Immigrant Who Wants To Play-Act As God"
Midterms Should Be About Tying Musk & His Cuts To GOP Incumbents In an interview with James Billot , Steve Bannon stoked his war with the...
Howie Klein
Feb 198 min read
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There’s No Way The GOP Will Ring In 2025 With A Dysfunctional Fight Over Speaker... Is There?
Trump And Musk Are Threatening Primaries Against Anyone Who Acts Up Trump told the House he wants puppet MAGA Mike back as speaker. That...
Howie Klein
Jan 14 min read
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Can The Democrats Pull Their Heads Out Of Their Asses And Win The 2026 Midterms?
I saw a House Majority PAC wish list somewhere— 45 Republican-held districts they would like to contest in 2026. If they meant by...
Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20249 min read
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How Fake Partisan Polling Firms Screw Up Elections-- With An Assist From The Media
The New York Times assigned a trio of reporters— Jim Rutenberg, Ken Bensinger and Steve Eder— to get to the bottom of the plague of phony...
Howie Klein
Dec 31, 202211 min read
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Could The Democrats Have Kept The House Majority With A Little Extra Effort And Competence?
One of the most unexpected wins to drop into the Democrats’ lap was in southwest Washington state where a thoroughly red seat was won by...
Howie Klein
Dec 28, 20226 min read
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What It Takes To Win A Republican Party Primary Is What It Takes To Lose A General Election
Republican politicians are having an increasingly difficult time with messaging as the party’s base— primary voters— descend into a world...
Howie Klein
Dec 26, 20228 min read
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The Democrats Are Lucky Trump Didn't Accept His 2020 Defeat And Disappear Like A Mensch
Yesterday, the Ways and Means Committee voted, 24-16, to release Trump’s tax returns from 2015 through 2020. Every Republican voted...
Howie Klein
Dec 21, 202214 min read
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In Making The GOP Over In His Own Image, Trump Has Turned It Into A Party Of Predatory Losers
Marge whines Herschel lost because he told her to stay away from his events and refused to have her speak for him— except at “2 or 3” in...
Howie Klein
Dec 8, 20224 min read
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Most Normal Americans-- If Not Most Republicans-- Still Hate Nazis
How Different Is Nick Fuentes From Newt Gingrich? On Wednesday, far right operative Newt Gingrich published a provocative blog post, Quit...
Howie Klein
Dec 3, 20224 min read
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MAGA Republicans Are Trying To Overturn The Results Of Arizona's Midterms
One of the hallmarks of fascism is that fascists don’t accept election results that don’t go their way. And in Arizona this month, it did...
Howie Klein
Nov 29, 20222 min read
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Karl Rove v Josh Hawley-- And Rove Has Reality On His Side
This morning in his Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove wrote that crackpot Missouri senator, Josh Hawley— who is up for...
Howie Klein
Nov 24, 20226 min read
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Young Voter Turnout Was Through The Roof-- And It Made a Real Difference
Votes are still being counted but as far as I can tell, there were 6 congressional seats that were decided in favor of Democrats by less...
Howie Klein
Nov 24, 20224 min read
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Candidate Quality Mattered
The political parties and their operatives seem to believe— or act as though they believe— that elections are all about the parties and...
Howie Klein
Nov 23, 20224 min read
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A Closer Look: New York's Red Wave
Last week, Eric Cunningham had a thorough look at what happened in New York State, where the GOP had significant gains across the board....
Howie Klein
Nov 23, 20225 min read
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Only 23 Seats Flipped This Cycle-- 16 From Blue To Red And 6 From Red To Blue
There are only 5 uncalled House elections and I don’t think any of them will flip. Adam Frisch already conceded to Boobert that he lost...
Howie Klein
Nov 21, 20223 min read
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Rooting For Trump To Win The GOP 2024 Primary— A Progressive Case
Have you noticed all the Republicans tearing out their hair about how Trump must be defeated for the nomination because he will lose in...
Howie Klein
Nov 21, 20226 min read
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Why The New Jersey GOP Was Unable To Live Up To It's Expectations This Year-- One Word: Trumpanzee
Patrick Murray is the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Writing for the Star Ledger this morning, he noted that in...
Howie Klein
Nov 20, 20225 min read
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MAGA Extremism May Work Fine In Marjorie Traitor Greene's Backward District, But That's About It
Trump Destroyed GOP Hopes In New Hampshire Republicans had a great chance to to win the New Hampshire Senate seat. Democrat Maggie Hassan...
Howie Klein
Nov 20, 20222 min read
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House Republicans Are In No Shape To Lead
Last night CA-27, in the northern suburbs of L.A. County, a district with a D+4 PVI, was called for Republican incumbent Mike Garcia,...
Howie Klein
Nov 17, 20227 min read
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