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Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine.
This sticker may be offensive. (CNS photo/Gary Cameron, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
The daylight hours of Election Day bring story after story tweet after tweet about voter turnout This is insanely boring and the stories have little predictive value about the election results Long lines in certain places prompt speculation about unexpectedly high turnout and only later do we
TOWN HALL TV. Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari in “Parks and Recreation”
Television
Robert David Sullivan
Fifteen years after the premiere of “The West Wing,” there are more television shows about politics than ever before, with “Scandal” among the biggest hits on broadcast television and a half-dozen others in production on various platforms. But the trend is not likely to boost
We may be in for a volcano election next month, if anyone can figure out what that would be.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
We're less than two weeks from election day, so it's time to start writing the post-mortems.
Does this image make you feel better about the election? What if I told you that Norman Bates is in that house? Or David Brooks?
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Will hysteria over the Ebola virus drive midterm voters to the right?
Sen. Sam Ervin opens the Watergate hearings in 1973.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Congress is more adept at fear-mongering (see: the Ebola virus) than at substantive debate.
Dr. Aileen Marty, a Miami-based infectious disease expert, stops at a checkpoint in the Lagos International Airport in Nigeria. (CNS photo/courtesy Florida International University)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Democrats and Republicans seek to tie global crises to their midterm opponents.
Robert David Sullivan
Fifty years ago this fall, the Democrats won their highest percentage ever in a presidential election, and Catholics formed the party’s bedrock constituency. Still reeling from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Catholics voted for his successor, Lyndon Johnson, by a margin of three to one
Alison Lundergan Grimes is all about the sanctity of the ballot.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Democratic senate candidate in K.Y. a champion of ballot-box privacy
The offending image from Wendy Davis's campaign commercial.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Wendy Davis's campaign ad reminding voters of her opponent's disability backfires.
President Obama voting in 2012. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
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