Archive for the ‘Congress’ Category
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Electing A Speaker
Posted on January 3, 2013
It took two months in the 34th Congress to find somebody who had enough votes to be Speaker. The Whig Party had collapsed a half decade before the Civil War...
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Game Change Or More of the Same?
Posted on November 16, 2012
Here are some remarks I made to NABPAC that I thought I would share with you. It was a status quo election. Or was it? The players all seem exactly...
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No Mandate, Just a Job to Do
Posted on November 7, 2012
In Presidential re-elections, the incumbent usually gets more votes than he did the first time, unless of course he loses. Bush got more votes against Kerry than he did against...
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