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All That Glitters

All That Glitters
25.01.2025 10

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David Freedlander

All That Glitters

All That Glitters
25.01.2025 10

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David Freedlander

Trump’s Inaugural Address Was Just Another MAGA Rally Speech

Trump’s Inaugural Address Was Just Another MAGA Rally Speech
21.01.2025 50

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Trump Is Back and It’s About to Be Official: Inauguration Live Updates

Trump Is Back and It’s About to Be Official: Inauguration Live Updates
21.01.2025 50

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The Mayoral Has Begun. Everyone Is Frozen.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The race to be the next...

02.01.2025 8

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What If Woke Didn’t Cost the Democrats the Election?

As Democrats sift through the wreckage from November to figure out precisely how they lost to Donald Trump and the Republicans, the party’s...

03.12.2024 20

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What If Woke Didn’t Cost the Democrats the Election?

As Democrats sift through the wreckage from November to figure out precisely how they lost to Donald Trump and the Republicans, the party’s...

03.12.2024 2

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What Democratic Operatives Think Could Decide the Election

If 2016 was a referendum on Hillary Clinton and the Clintonite turn in the Democratic Party after two terms of Barack Obama, and 2020 was a...

05.11.2024 4

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Elon Musk’s Pennsylvania Playbook

Marshall Miller has been canvassing in the crucial and vote rich regions of eastern Pennsylvania for years. A leader in the local Democratic Party...

04.11.2024 3

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Elon Musk’s Pennsylvania Playbook

Marshall Miller has been canvassing in the crucial and vote rich regions of eastern Pennsylvania for years. A leader in the local Democratic Party...

03.11.2024 3

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David Freedlander

As Republicans Cheer the Early Vote, Should Democrats Panic?

“Oh god no, why are you calling me about this!?” said John Anzelone, a pollster for Kamala Harris and other Democratic candidates. “Are you...

26.10.2024 5

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Republicans Say They Are Winning the Early Vote. Should Democrats Panic Yet?

“Oh god no, why are you calling me about this!?” said John Anzelone, a pollster for Kamala Harris and other Democratic candidates. “Are you...

26.10.2024 5

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At the End, It’s Trump Momentum vs. the Harris Machine

With two weeks left to go, the contours of the 2024 presidential election are clear: Both campaigns need voters who usually don’t vote, and Kamala...

19.10.2024 5

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Momentum vs. Machine

With two weeks left to go, the contours of the 2024 presidential election are clear: Both campaigns need voters who usually don’t vote, and Kamala...

19.10.2024 6

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When Election Modelers Attack

“It’s gotten so bad that people have been telling me that somehow I can’t do predictions because I am wearing a wig,” said Allan Lichtman from his...

09.10.2024 10

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When Election Modelers Attack

“It’s gotten so bad that people have been telling me that somehow I can’t do predictions because I am wearing a wig,” said Allan Lichtman from his...

09.10.2024 2

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Eric Adams’s Strategy to Hang On

Eric Adams isn’t going anywhere. For now, at least. On Wednesday, as it became more apparent that the mayor would be indicted, political aides and...

27.09.2024 3

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Eric Adams’s Strategy to Hang On

Eric Adams isn’t going anywhere. For now, at least. On Wednesday, as it became more apparent that the mayor would be indicted, political aides and...

27.09.2024 6

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Eric Adams’s Strategy to Hang On

Eric Adams isn’t going anywhere. For now, at least. On Wednesday, as it became increasingly clear that the mayor would be indicted, political aides...

27.09.2024 4

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Will Trump Beat Expectations Again?

Two weeks before the end of the 2020 election, Joe Biden appeared to be headed for a blowout. The FiveThirtyEight polling average showed him...

16.09.2024 5

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Will Trump Beat Expectations Again?

Two weeks before the end of the 2020 election, Joe Biden appeared to be headed for a blowout. The FiveThirtyEight polling average showed him...

16.09.2024 20

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The DNC Wasn’t Torn Apart Over Gaza

The protesters demonstrating outside a pro-Israel party on Wednesday didn’t number more than a half-dozen and their shouts — about how Democrats...

23.08.2024 3

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The DNC Wasn’t Torn Apart Over Gaza

The protesters demonstrating outside a pro-Israel party on Wednesday didn’t number more than a half-dozen and their shouts — about how Democrats...

23.08.2024 3

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How Long Can ‘Brat Summer’ Last?

Kamala Harris hasn’t trailed Donald Trump once in the FiveThirtyEight polling average, and her favorability rating has now ticked up to just shy of...

21.08.2024 5

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How Long Can ‘Brat Summer’ Last?

Kamala Harris hasn’t trailed Donald Trump once in the FiveThirtyEight polling average, and her favorability rating has now ticked up to just shy of...

21.08.2024 3

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‘This Joe Biden Is Beating Donald Trump by 15‘

Democrats gathered in Chicago for the opening night of their convention as unified and as energized as the party has been since they nominated...

20.08.2024 3

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‘This Joe Biden Is Beating Donald Trump by 15‘

Democrats gathered in Chicago for the opening night of their convention as unified and as energized as the party has been since they nominated...

20.08.2024 3

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Nate Silver Knows Who Will Win

It’s a gray and muggy Sunday afternoon, and Nate Silver had just a few hours earlier republished his widely followed election model. After months...

13.08.2024 10

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Nate Silver Knows Who Will Win

It’s a gray and muggy Sunday afternoon, and Nate Silver had just a few hours earlier republished his widely followed election model. After months...

13.08.2024 10

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How to Buy a President

What may turn out to be a hinge in American history occurs one day in November 2004, when the future president of the United States asks his then-...

29.07.2024 10

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David Freedlander

How to Buy a President

What may turn out to be a hinge in American history occurs one day in November 2004, when the future president of the United States asks his then-...

29.07.2024 2

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Republicans Try to Explain Why They Were Wrong About Trump

Back in January, Nikki Haley said that Donald Trump was “just toxic,” that he “lacks moral clarity,” and that he didn’t know the difference between...

18.07.2024 20

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