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Republicans Have A Lot Of Explaining To Do— And Their Constituents Are Paying Attention These Days
Defunding Medicaid And Impeaching Judges— 2 Bad Ideas The most electorally vulnerable swing district Republicans are worried about how to...
Howie Klein
Mar 206 min read
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How Badly Will Trump And Musk— And Their Policy Agendas— Weigh Down Republicans In The Midterms?
Trump And Lutnick— The Recession Bros In an interview with CBS News, Trump’s utterly clueless Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, a...
Howie Klein
Mar 135 min read
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Republican So-Called "Moderates" Are Fakin' It As Much As Faux Democratic "Moderates" Are
For The Most Part, They Vote As Extreme As The Worst MAGAts Do Swing district Republicans like Don Bacon (NE), Mike Lawler (NY), Brian...
Howie Klein
Feb 155 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Nov 2, 20245 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Sep 18, 20244 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Feb 3, 20243 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Dec 16, 20236 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Dec 13, 20234 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Dec 1, 20232 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Oct 30, 20235 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20235 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20235 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Sep 27, 20234 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20236 min read
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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,...
Howie Klein
Sep 15, 20234 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Sep 13, 20235 min read
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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....
Howie Klein
Sep 3, 20233 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Aug 21, 20234 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Aug 21, 20234 min read
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