Wave Election

In Blue Dog Battle, Progressives Are (Half) Right

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

The Blue Dogs are right about campaign strategy in some conservative districts -- but they greatly overstate their case. Granularity is usually lost in our political narrative, and the numbers suggest subtle, diverging politics.

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Another 1994? Or Another 1946?

Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dylan Loewe

Republicans are confident they are poised to build a wave as large as the one that swept them into power in 1994. Yet, just as in 1946, the party is poised to regain the majority while still weak, and without a strategy for going forward.

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