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Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine.
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.
Evangelical pastor Joshua Nink, right, prays for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as wife, Melania, left, watches after a Sunday service at First Christian Church, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
If Trump is the white Catholic consensus candidate, late primaries look good for him.
Was independent Michael Bloomberg outsmarted by independent-minded Donald Trump? (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
A hostile takeover of GOP proves more effective than trying to rise above party.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Trump National Golf Club on Tuesday in Jupiter, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Clinton takes the old Confederacy and Trump sweeps Appalachia.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally Sunday in Madison, Ala. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
The front-runner is promising not to let people “die in the streets.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Winning the presidency may cut into the former wrestling star's trash-talking time.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida autographs a bumper sticker after speaking at a rally Sunday in Franklin, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Donald Trump wins first two primaries but now faces the tough part.