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Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine.
An imagined ad by George McClellan against Abraham Lincoln in the 1964 presidential campaign.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
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
Robert David Sullivan
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
Robert David Sullivan
(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
Robert David Sullivan
Will campaign promises make substantive entitlement reform harder to achieve?
Don't make him do it. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
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
Robert David Sullivan
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
Robert David Sullivan
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
Robert David Sullivan
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
Robert David Sullivan
Foreign crises are complicating the Democratic Party’s plans to win the midterms.
It's an anti-incumbent election!
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Little chance of a “throw the bums out,” anti-incumbent result in midterms.