The liberal polling firm Democracy Corps has released the results of its latest research project. Titled, “The Culture Divide & the Challenge of Winning Back Rural & Red State Voters,” the memo encapsulating the results of a series of focus…

WASHINGTON — The results of Tuesday’s special election in Ohio’s Second Congressional District provide us with few clues as to how the 2006 race for control of Congress might shake out. Republican Jean Schmidt defeated Democrat Paul Hackett to retain…

WASHINGTON — The sun is setting on the permanent Republican majority that seemed to offer so much promise after the 2004 election. Or so the chattering class would have us all believe. Public opinion polls now consistently show the voters…

This summer’s family wedding season has drawn to a close for me. The last stop found me in Duluth, Minnesota (not Duluth, Georgia; there would be no runaway brides at this ceremony) from where hails my maternal lineage. These are…

Howard Dean ought to have been happy with his fifteen minutes of fame. During the diminutive former Governor of Vermont’s mercurial rise to the top of the news cycle throughout the 2004 Democratic presidential primary — and his equally sudden…

Motivated by my eternal outrage at the systematic voter disenfranchisement that occurred in Ohio last year, I ventured to the Buckeye State this past weekend as a one man civil rights crusade determined to uncover the great untold story of…

The Middle East is in turmoil. Oil prices have frayed the nation’s economic nerves. A powerful corporate fat cat stands trial for a scandal that could bring him and his whole company down. A story ripped from today’s headlines? No,…

Washington, D.C. may have a Major League baseball team again, but it’s still a minor league town. The long-suffering residents of our nation’s capital are twitterpated over the Washington Nationals, the first Major League Baseball team in Washington since the…

I first met Chuck McGee on the campus of the University of New Hampshire. I was a washed up Division III football player just transferred in from Pennsylvania and nurturing a severe drinking problem that would plague me for the…

WASHINGTON — Despite some of the most atrocious reporting on any national public policy debate in history, public opinion stands strongly in favor of Social Security reform that includes personal retirement accounts. Curiously, the results of a poll released last…