Tag: Commentary

Jimmy Carter.

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Carter and Nixon were more popular than either Clinton or Trump

Philip Wegmann · November 8, 2016 6:03 pm

University of Virginia administrator Nicole Eramo, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Charlottesville, Va., Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (Ryan M. Kelly /The Daily Progress via AP)

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Rolling Stone to cough up $3 million over gang-rape hoax

Ashe Schow · November 8, 2016 5:31 pm

Madonna offered any takers a sexual favor to vote for Hillary Clinton. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

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Vote because it’s your civic duty, not because Madonna promises sexual favors

Karin Lips · November 8, 2016 5:16 pm

(AP Photos)

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Electoral map prediction: Clinton 308, Trump 230

Philip Klein · November 8, 2016 4:01 pm

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Beltway Confidential hour-by-hour election night guide

David Freddoso · November 8, 2016 3:31 pm

Trump's character, immigration stance and grasp of public policy is all wanting. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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I’m ‘That Republican Guy,’ but I didn’t vote for Trump

Jason Russell · November 8, 2016 3:09 pm

It's been a bizarre point of pride among politics reporters for having "fact-checked" the most inconsequential, throw-away lines from Trump. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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2016’s insufferable fact-checking

Eddie Scarry · November 8, 2016 2:44 pm

How was William F. Buckley to know then that history would judge John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower correct, and Buckley too rash, in relation to war and the Soviet Union? (AP Photo)

Torch songs

Noemie Emery · November 8, 2016 5:03 am

Hillary Clinton was asked a question this week prefaced with, "You've been often ahead of your time, you've been sometimes misunderstood, you've fought off a lot of prejudice…" Really, how could the questioner suck up any harder? (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Political media need a reality check

Washington Examiner · November 8, 2016 5:01 am

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Byron York: The candidate who never quit

Byron York · November 8, 2016 4:46 am

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PARSING THE POLLS, 2016 Prediction: A Big Electoral College Win for Hillary

Timothy P. Carney · November 8, 2016 1:36 am

"If things don't change, Republicans might well be a minority party at the national level," said Ned Ryun, president of American Majority Action and CEO of Voter Gravity. (Screen shot)

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Priebus challenger: RNC reforms could’ve produced ‘a different nominee’

Philip Wegmann · November 8, 2016 12:57 am