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President Obama voting in 2012. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
October 10, 2014
On Thursday a federal judge struck down Texas rsquo s voter ID law which requires citizens to produce photo identification in order to cast ballots in federal and state elections The law does not make the same demands of those mailing in absentee ballots U S District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos
An imagined ad by George McClellan against Abraham Lincoln in the 1964 presidential campaign.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
October 09, 2014
Will voters penalize senate candidate for changing his position on personhood?
An un-American protest in Paris against the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2013. (CNS photo/Stephane Mahe, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
October 07, 2014
A mass rally by gay marriage opponents would serve little purpose at this point.
Catholic youths pray for democracy outside Hong Kong's government headquarters building on Sept. 30. (CNS photo/Francis Wong)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
October 01, 2014
(Un)Conventional Wisdom on the midterm races from Robert D. Sullivan.
No time for subtlety: an image from a commercial for Bruce Braley, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
September 29, 2014
Will campaign promises make substantive entitlement reform harder to achieve?
Don't make him do it. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
September 25, 2014
Perhaps encouraged by that David Brooks column in which he swoons over the ldquo responsible elite rdquo people in Mitt Romney rsquo s circle are putting out vibrations of another presidential run in 2016 The Washington Examiner rsquo s Byron York revealed all in a Wednesday column ldquo Romne
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders. (CNS photo/Jason Reed, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
September 24, 2014
Will a "porous, self-conscious and responsible elite" fix what ails the U.S.?
Members of the Women's Political Union promote a march in the early 20th century (Library of Congress)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
September 22, 2014
Barred from voting, 19th-century women perfected art of door-to-door campaigning.
Dejected independence supporters in Glasgow, Scotland (CNS photo/Paul Hackett, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
September 21, 2014
The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom for Robert D. Sullivan
President Obama and the Democrats can't expect a "splendid little war" dividend.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
September 17, 2014
Foreign crises are complicating the Democratic Party’s plans to win the midterms.