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Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine.
Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party, face suspicions that they've given up on economic growth. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Identity politics make some feel they're being sacrificed in the New Economy.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a primary night news conference Tuesday in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
The G.O.P. doesn't want experience, the Northeast is hot again and more fallout from the presidential primaries.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton celebrates primary wins at a rally last Tuesday in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Voters outside the managerial class don't always vote for the candidate with the best resume.
The ultimate conventional pick, Democrat John W. Davis.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Today's smoke-filled rooms would not produce moderate or broadly popular nominees.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Can a president can go too far in making fun of himself?
A not-necessarily-anxious man wears a Donald J. Trump mask at the Republican presidential candidate's rally ol Saturday in Rothschild, Wis. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Satisfaction with the economy is high, but it's hardly universal.
Detroit's Wayne County lost more than 60,000 people from 2010 to 2015. It turned a cold shoulder to John Kasich in the Republican presidential primary. (iStock photo)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
The GOP establishment has vanished from population-loss counties.
"Am I the first to the Trump rally?" (Image from 1951's "Ace in the Hole," aka "The Big Carnival")
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
A cynical Billy Wilder movie captures the 2016 campaign.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at his primary election night event at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Ohio follows the South in boosting Trump and Clinton.
Richard Nixon know how to get two-thirds of the white vote, at least in 1972.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Resentment toward changes in American life resulted in a landslide in 1972.