Christie’s Tea Party Rally
Right after the Bridgegate scandal started making national headlines, we predicted conservatives would rally to Chrisite’s side. New polling shows they’ve done just that. Here’s why.
Didn’t find what you want? Try searching again:
Right after the Bridgegate scandal started making national headlines, we predicted conservatives would rally to Chrisite’s side. New polling shows they’ve done just that. Here’s why.
America’s rich imagine themselves to be under violent siege — facing a mortal threat of some kind, usually from the progressive or populist left. To see what’s really going on, you have to look at Wall Street’s persecution complex through the lens of psychology.
How should political strategists respond to the fact that more than half of our political orientation is hard-wired into our biology? Here are our top four strategic recommendations.
At least since the 2008 election, Republicans have been pursuing a strategy designed to keep the emerging (and growing) Democratic majority in the electorate from making a difference and wielding power in office. Rules reform in the Senate suggests that Democrats may finally be wising up to this strategy and are deciding to fight back.
To really understand the politics of this moment, you can’t just look at a single generation — you have to look at all the generations alive and active in Congress today and how they relate to each other.
Expert on Congressional politics and history Norm Ornstein has a new piece up at The Atlantic about the divisions within the Republican Party. It isn’t long, so go read the whole thing. He sees a GOP divided into five factions. The differences between these factions are driven by the different […]
Don’t call it the “nuclear option.” Call it rules reform.
This strategic memo outlines messaging recommendations for the judicial nominations battle and filibuster rules fight in the Senate, anticipated to play out during the months of July and August 2013. These recommendations were prepared by David Rosen, Founder of First Person Politics, a consulting firm dedicated to bringing you the […]
It’s no secret why five conservative justices struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act. Blacks and other racial minorities vote in overwhelming numbers for Democratic candidates. As even conservatives now acknowledge, Republicans can no longer win national elections if blacks and Hispanics turn out to vote in […]
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican Brain, has a new article in Mother Jones based on his earlier research into motivated reasoning in politics. Thank heavens Mooney wrote the book on this subject, because if he hadn’t done it, we would have had to. Mooney is a journalist who sees […]