Martin Long
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Martin Long is an entrepreneur and political scientist based in the Boston area. He was born in Chicago, studied Political Science and Computer Science at the University of Illinois, and Russian Politics and History at the London School of Economics. He traveled extensively in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin wall, living in Poland for a time. He traveled extensively in South Africa before the fall of Apartheid. He likes to make sense of incomprehensible situations in the world, and in domestic politics. He has written about the historical context of terrorism. He is currently working on a book about Republican political discourse. He blogs at www.BornAgainDemocrat.com.

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Two Romney Problems Clash: Elitism Versus Tin Ear Syndrome

7 Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 2:27 PM

Maybe you read about how Gawker had a mole inside Fox News. Well, he got caught and is now public.

On Joe Muto's

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Santorum's Gifts to Obama

17 Comments | Posted February 27, 2012 | 4:19 PM

Rick Santorum appeared on ABC's This Week apparently to demonstrate once and for all that he cannot be elected the next President of the United States and that soon after November he will slip into obscurity.  In fact, I'd bet $10,000 today to the first taker that he won't be...

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Haley Barbour's Unintentional Lesson: Keep Religion and Governance Separate

0 Comments | Posted February 9, 2012 | 2:48 PM

Suppose there are two inmates convicted of similar crimes.  Both appear to be equally contrite and rehabilitated.  One is black, the other white.  The white one gets pardoned by the governor, the black one does not.  Is this fair?  What if one was rich, the other poor?  If one had...

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Evangelicals' Lock on the GOP Cracks

0 Comments | Posted February 4, 2012 | 8:00 AM

During this election cycle, Republicans sidled up to Ronald Reagan's legacy to demonstrate their true conservative credentials. But we all know that Reagan himself could not survive as a presidential candidate in the Republican Party in this, the twenty-first century.

Well, why is that? Is it because he raised taxes,...

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