Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 13, 1955
No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority..
The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier..
White voters were 72 percent of the electorate in 2012, and their share of the population has shrunk a couple points since then. [Donald] Trump has h….
As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz ….
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama..
There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated..
If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unpreceden….
If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic..
The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on….
As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current ….
On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard edito….
There's disgust with what people called a broken political system, and they're really angry at elites, whether it's the Republican establishment or p….
People like Ted Cruz, who has tried to position himself as the best second choice for [Donald] Trump supporters, wouldn't condemn him..
Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold..
If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, ins….
Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses ….
What if he says [Donald Trump] plans to run again in 2020?.
Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that th….
Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa..
For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away..
The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself..