Tag: Michael Barone

Some 400 families were displaced by the Detroit riot. Property damage was estimated at $300 million in 1967 dollars. Forty-three people, many of them innocent bystanders, were killed. More than 1,000 people were wounded. (AP Photo/File)

The Detroit riot, 50 years later

Michael Barone · July 20, 2017 4:01 am

According to the exit poll, whites voted 58 to 37 percent for Trump over Clinton. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Beltway Confidential

Where did white voters back Hillary Clinton?

Michael Barone · July 18, 2017 5:37 pm

The Ferguson Effect continues to result in more homicides. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

538: ‘Ferguson Effect’ still operative

Michael Barone · July 14, 2017 5:47 pm

President Trump seems to have an uncanny knack for provoking overreach in his critics, which often hurts him, his opponents, and his country. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Michael Barone: Anti-Trump overreach could backfire

Michael Barone · July 13, 2017 4:01 am

The Trump administration promised to impose new sanctions against Iran for other questionable activities, such as its ongoing ballistic missile testing. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s ‘remarkable’ speech in Poland

Michael Barone · July 7, 2017 1:58 am

Special circumstances, unlikely to be replicated next year, accounted for the four presidential party victories. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Will Trump Republicans avoid the off-year curse?

Michael Barone · July 7, 2017 1:50 am

Every American administration going back to the beginning of the NATO alliance has urged the European nations to spend more on defense. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

Brash Trump gets results in Europe

Michael Barone · June 29, 2017 3:38 pm

Trump's achievement, with his trade and immigration proposals, was to increase the margin by appealing to those raised in union households who had been sticking with the Democrats. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

Michael Barone: Democrats and Republicans lack credibility on economic issues

Michael Barone · June 29, 2017 4:01 am

The Supreme Court is seen on the last day of its term, in Washington, Monday, June 26, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

On travel ban, the Supreme Court provides adult supervision for lower courts gone wild

Michael Barone · June 27, 2017 2:56 pm

The bad news is that there arenât that many other Republican-held super-high-education districts like this one. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

In Georgia’s 6th, Democrats couldn’t capitalize on an unusually well-educated electorate

Michael Barone · June 21, 2017 7:26 pm

Contrary to mainstream media expectations, the violence and threats come almost entirely from the political Left, not the Right. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The violent political Left

Michael Barone · June 15, 2017 4:46 pm

Here are the percentages of the vote for each candidate statewide and in each metropolitan region. (Aileen Devlin/The Daily Press via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Are Democrats winning the enthusiasm race in the Virginia governor’s election?

Michael Barone · June 14, 2017 7:52 pm