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Keith Naughton

Keith Naughton, PhD., is a principal at Silent Majority Strategies, a regulatory and public affairs firm. He is the author of Washington Gold Rush: The Competition for Congressional Earmarks. He is a politics and public policy contributor.
by | May 9, 2024

For the past several months, the public has been inundated by polls. national polls, state polls, issue polls. Yet, the 64-dollar question remains: Who is winning for President, Trump or Biden? Over the past two months, the two presumptive nominees…

by | Mar 3, 2024

The partisan divide in America makes it difficult to agree on anything in politics. But this much is certain, the House Republicans are a mess, and their incompetence has been a boon the President Biden and the Democrats. Whether their…

by | Feb 7, 2024

A new slate of polls has definitively made Donald Trump the favorite. Trump, who has been gaining ground since October, now has a long enough string of winning polls in key states by different pollsters to give him a clear…

by | Jan 20, 2024

Nikki Haley had her moment in the early debates. Calling out the dysfunction and incompetence in Congress and the Republican Party electrified people — but just for a moment. Since then, she has been coasting, attempting to avoid angering any…

by | Jan 6, 2024

Republicans are doing handsprings over Donald Trump’s polling lead versus President Biden while Democrats panic. But Trump’s advantage over Biden pales in comparison to Nikki Haley’s lead. Of course, Ron DeSantis was running strong a year ago only to slide….

by | Dec 27, 2023

Some conservatives, most prominently Vivek Ramaswamy, think the United States can flip Russia from foe to friend and end the Ukraine war. Ramaswamy has promised he would break up the Russia-China alliance — a nifty reversal of Nixon-to-China. It will…

by | Dec 1, 2023

A spate of strong polling for Donald Trump has Republicans energized. Leading in several national polls and key swing states, Trump has the upper hand. Nonsense, say Democrats. Biden and the Democrats are winning where it counts: at the ballot…

by | Nov 19, 2023

MAD or “mutually-assured destruction” is truly mad. The idea that a nuclear strike by one nation must result in worldwide Armageddon is insane. This theory of the Cold War, which cost untold billions in expenditures on weapons that have never…

by | Oct 24, 2023

If there is a single issue that encapsulates the political incompetence of both Republicans and Democrats, it is the debate over aid to Ukraine. With nearly $300 billion in frozen Russian assets held by the G7, using those funds to…

by | Sep 13, 2023

Russia has changed little over the past 400 years. Yes, Russians now drive cars instead of oxcarts, but from a political, cultural, military, and geopolitical standpoint, Russia and how it behaves has changed remarkably little. In fact, the run-up to…

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