The cancer of early voting tightened its deadly grip on the American body politic in last week’s midterm elections. This is yet another destructive outcome of Nov. 8. The mad rush toward early voting accelerated thanks to another disease: COVID-19….

Republicans, especially those running for president in 2024, know how to get treated “respectfully” by the mainstream media: denounce or at least distance yourself from former President Donald Trump. Former Vice President Mike Pence has learned that lesson and is…

The midterm election results did not go as expected for Republicans, as the predicted red wave turned out to be more of a ruffle in races across the country. Republicans’ takeover of the House happened thanks to GOP victories in…

“Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan,” observed the late Democratic President John F. Kennedy. But that’s certainly not the view in the GOP, where those responsible for the party’s malaise, far from suffering the ostracism of the…

Watergate spelled doom and gloom for Republicans. Confused GOP voters rejected a movie actor whom America’s leftist media depicted as a warmonger and dummy. Jimmy Carter got elected president. However, Carter’s one term proved disastrous, with 18 percent interest rates, 14.8 percent inflation, and 444…

Gen Z is taking credit for quashing the projected midterm red wave. In the days following the Nov. 8 election, the claim echoed across the political landscape. Credit the kids, the 18-to-29-year-olds, for turning the red wave pink or —…

“Nothing.” That is what President Joe Biden promised to do differently after last week’s disappointing, frustrating, and confounding midterm elections. “I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way,” Biden reiterated in the post-vote news conference on Wednesday. So,…

Thirty years ago, during the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, Clinton adviser James Carville boiled the primary campaign message down to the simplest terms: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Indeed, that pithy statement is largely considered a truism in politics….

First, something of a mea culpa. In a recent note on these pages, I expressed my opinion that voters would focus on issues like the economy and crime rather than on “threats to democracy.” While it’s true that many more…

The Wall Street Journal placed a box with poll results right in the middle of its lead editorial on Thursday, Nov. 10. It cites its source as “Media exit poll, Nov. 8, 2022,” and it reads: Is your opinion of…