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Candidate for Georgia’s 3rd District
Interview Date: May 3, 2016
Date of Birth: Nov. 15, 1966; Langdale, Ala.
Education: Univ. of Georgia (1988); Medical College of Georgia (1992)
Political Office: Mayor of West Point (former)
Current Outlook: Ferguson is a credible contender for the 3rd…
Candidate for New York’s 22nd District
Interview Date: May 11, 2016
Date of Birth: March 1, 1955; Little Falls, N.Y.
Education: Shippensburg Univ. (1977); Herkimer County Community College (A.A.)
Political Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook: Babinec is a wild card in a…
Stu and I have been working together for nearly 15 years and any acute political instincts I’ve developed I owe to him. In many ways, we’ve morphed into the same mind, including our valuations of players in fantasy baseball. But after reading Stu’s column, “Ryan Rides to the Rescue — But Not Until…
Some Democrats are downright giddy about facing Donald Trump and his sizable unfavorable ratings in November. But the party may need to lose the presidential election in order to have a chance of controlling the House at some point over the next decade.
If Hillary Clinton is elected president…
The warnings about jumping to conclusions about November are widespread.
I’ve heard that it’s early in the presidential race and that we underestimated Donald Trump last time so we should be careful now. I’ve also heard that Trump’s strength with working-class whites could change the electoral…
With congressional job approval hovering in the low teens, giving incumbents the opportunity to choose three words to describe themselves, and to refer to their current office, might seem like asking them to choose the words for their tombstone. But it’s a biennial tradition for the California…
Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president in 2016.
Looking back for the answer to “How did we get here?” and forward to handicapping the general election, one word stands out: assumptions.
There was an assumption that once voters were reminded of any number of ways Donald Trump…