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Nikki Haley 2024: Why?
If we’re permitted to stretch the meaning of this sentence’s penultimate word, the 2024 Republican Primary has its second major candidate. That candidate is Nikki Haley, who joins Donald Trump in the field. To find her chances of becoming the Republican nominee, one must first request permission to squint into the strongest microscope at the……
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Biden 2024: I Guess We’re Doing This?
Tuesday’s State of the Union address made clear what many of us had suspected for months: Joe Biden, who entered high school when the U.S. had only 48 states, is about to run for re-election. On his first day in office, the 78-year-old Biden was already the oldest president in history. If he completes his……
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One Year Until Iowa: Checking in On Trump’s “Heap”
On November 14, I summarized the ancient “Sorites paradox,” which wonders when a heap of sand, subjected to the steady removal of singular grains, no longer qualifies as a “heap.” I used this analogy as a way to reframe the support for former President Trump, which seemed to be shrinking as a result of the……
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PPFA’s Most Read Posts of 2022
Congratulations on nearly surviving another year. Have a safe New Years’ Eve tonight, ideally watching the Twilight Zone marathon rather than navigating dangerous roads after a poisonous party. Tomorrow, 2023 begins. It’s looking like a year where Joe Biden will try to stay President until he’s eighty freaking six while Republicans brace for a Trump-DeSantis……
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Implications of Democrats’ Proposed Early State Scramble
The Democrats are finally changing their primary calendar… maybe. Although the Republican Party, being the good conservatives they are, will continue with the traditional early primary states, the Democratic National Committee is looking to shift things around. For years there had been momentum behind removing Iowa and New Hampshire as Democrats’ first caucus and primary.……
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And That’s Why 51 Matters: Sinema Leaves the Democratic Party
On Tuesday, I wrote about how the Georgia runoff greatly mattered even though Democrats had already secured a Constitutional Senate majority (50 senators plus the Vice President) in the next session. Among the reasons Democrats wanted to get to 51 was that a Democratic senator could die, be otherwise unable to vote, or even leave……
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