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Robert David Sullivan
Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine.
Articles by Robert David Sullivan
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
Regional patterns persist on another Super Tuesday
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
Trump needs Nixon-level support among white males to take the White House
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
Trump shows strength in most and least Catholic regions
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
Trump shows Bloomberg the right way to beat the two-party system
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
Trump and Clinton benefit from regional dominance
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
Trump poised to triumph over Republican orthodoxy
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
Does Donald Trump have governing on his mind?
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
South Carolina winnows GOP race to two
Robert David Sullivan
Donald Trump wins first two primaries but now faces the tough part.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a CNN town hall at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., on Thursday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Pope comments on Trump may help him with evangelicals
Robert David Sullivan
Even if anti-Catholicism has abated, nativism remains in American politics.
Gov. Nikki Haley campaigns with Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio in Greenville, S.C., on Thursday. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
South Carolina unlikely to be Republican tiebreaker this year
Robert David Sullivan
The GOP primary comes after a late endorsement for Rubio and a papal scolding for Trump.