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Don’t overthink it: What happened in the 2014 election is simple

November 6, 2014 Steve Sorkin 2014 Election, Republicans Leave a comment

Almost all of the analysis of the election results is over-complicated at best and wrong at worst. This professor has it exactly right, in

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49% think GOP is sabotaging the economy just to defeat Obama

November 4, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Economy, Politics One comment

When Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell unashamedly announced that the GOP’s primary goal was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected for

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