Tag: GOP
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Why We Got Ourselves a Trump: 4 Crazy Tricks
Four things came together to give us Donald J. Trump as the all-but-official GOP nominee. First, the so-called cable news channels in the US are, indeed, for-profit businesses, looking for ratings, looking for an edge. Thump was ratings gold for them. He got enormous free publicity in exchange for supplying viewers. He did a very […]
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The Southern Strategy and How the Democrats will Rescue the GOP
I read a story about how it was the gay vote that pushed Obama over the top. No, other stories say it was single white women. No, it was blacks. No, it was Latinos. No, it was east Asians. No, it as unions. No, it was all of the above. Had Romney shaved off just […]