Despite An Unimaginably Putrid Roster Of Candidates, The Dems Look Like They'll Win Back The House
I’m not buying the argument that the race for control of the House is as close as all the prognosticators claim it is There may not be a...
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Howie Klein
Sep 184 min read
Trump Puts Congressional Republican SALT Supporters In Another Awkward Position
When the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction was first voted on in the House— Nov 16, 2017 — every Democrat voted against it. Only 13...
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Howie Klein
Feb 33 min read
Blue America Endorsement Alert In Orange County: Cheyenne Hunt
In the last two weeks, I’ve interviewed over a dozen candidates. Some of them were great and some were far from that. One even blew up at...
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Howie Klein
Dec 16, 20236 min read
Worse Than A Do-Nothing Congress Is A Do-Bad Congress-- This One Is Both
Will Swing Voters Turn On Republican Incumbents Next Year? Yesterday, Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell reminded Washington...
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Howie Klein
Dec 13, 20234 min read
The Latest House Republican Farce: An Attempt At A Tit-For-Tat Impeachment That Trump Is Demanding
In January 2025, after the Democrats have taken back the House, Jim McGovern (D-MA) will become chair of the Rules Committee. Right now...
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Howie Klein
Dec 1, 20232 min read
Where’s The Beef— Aside Sitting In For Marjorie Traitor Greene’s “Brain?”
Trump’s Demand That Biden Be Impeached Could Cost Republicans These 30 Seats No one has ever accused former Arkansas Governor Mike...
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Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20234 min read
The DCCC Could Be A Lot Less Ham-Handed And Mechanical In Their District Targeting For 2024
A DCCC-adjacent PAC, the Congressional Integrity Project, launched 18 pretty cool identical ads today that were poorly targeted—using the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 30, 20235 min read
Better To See Santos' Political Corpse Rot Around The Necks Of Republican Incumbents Than Expel Him
If you get your George Santos news from DWT and you;’ve been following the whole sordid year-long saga on the blog, you probably think I...
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Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20235 min read
11 Of California's 12 Republican Members Of Congress Voted For Jordan Yesterday-- Are They Crazy?
Last Sunday, when Jake Tapper asked Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw— who wasn’t one of the 139 House Republicans who tried to overturn the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20235 min read
Is Gym Jordan Toast-- He Needs To Do A Lot Better Today... Or He's Screwed
Hours before the balloting started yesterday, Jamelle Bouie wrote that “Even some of the Republicans who have vowed, publicly and...
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Howie Klein
Sep 27, 20234 min read
How Many Congressional Republicans Will Lose Their Seats With Trump At The Top Of The Ticket?
Arthur Engoron is on the New York Supreme Court and he’s been supervising the state’s Attorney General’s case against Trump. When she...
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Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20236 min read
Why Can't The Mainstream Conservatives Grow A Pair? What Are They So Scared Of All The Time?
Swing district Republicans are definitely panic-stricken. Voters are not happy with the dysfunction and the impending all-GOP government...
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Howie Klein
Sep 15, 20234 min read
McCarthy's Going To Allow His Far Right Fringe To Shut Down The Government So They Don't Oust Him
Far right Republicans are quietly salivating at the prospect of shutting down the government in two weeks. And in deep red districts,...
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Howie Klein
Sep 13, 20235 min read
Agreeing To An Impeachment Inquiry Isn't Doing McCarthy Any Good With Anyone-- He's Still In Trouble
Some Extremists Insist On A Vote Now With No Hearings Or Evidence Looks like Trump sent the demand to his stooges in the House that Biden...
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Howie Klein
Sep 3, 20233 min read
What We Can Expect From A Big Blue Wave-- And Hold On... No One Is Ready To Talk About A Tsunami Yet
Anti-Red Wave? Let’s leave aside the 3 likely new anti-racism districts created by court orders in Alabama, Louisiana and, now, Florida....
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Howie Klein
Aug 21, 20234 min read
As Goeth Bucks County, Goeth Pennsylvania... Goeth The Nation?
Bucks County had been reliably Democratic until 1896 when Republican William McKinley beat populist William Jennings Bryan. Between that...
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Howie Klein
Aug 21, 20234 min read
Will The California GOP Throw Out Its Homophobic & Anti-Choice Stands To Placate The Voters?
NARAL’s score card rates most House Republicans’ voting records flat out zero. Currently there are only 4 Republican members with scores...
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Howie Klein
Aug 10, 20233 min read
Will Their Abortion Fanaticism Lose The Republicans Their House Majority? I Say YES
Did I Mention Their Dysfunctional Leadership? Extreme right House Republicans in safe hillbilly districts— to use Gym Jordan’s parlance—...
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Howie Klein
Jul 29, 20236 min read
There Are A Dozen GOP Members Of Congress Who Would Rather Expunge Trump Than His Impeachments
As we've been noting, late Thursday, Jack Smith brought 3 additional charges against Trump in the stolen classified documents case,...
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Howie Klein
Jul 25, 20236 min read
Congressional Republicans Don't Need An Albatross-- They Can Lose Their Majority All On Their Own
Republican Jim Jones served 8 years as Idaho attorney general (1983-1991) and 12 years as a justice on the Idaho Supreme Court...
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