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COCAINE MITCH: Having His GOP Cake and Eating It Too | Steve Berman

COCAINE MITCH: Having His GOP Cake and Eating It Too | Steve Berman


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You can look a long time for a more savvy political operator than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and you won’t find one. If you think Donald Trump engineered the Supreme Court conservative majority, you’re wrong. If you think the current red trickle was because of Trump’s misfiring on candidate picks, well you’d be kind …

KENTUCKY ABORTS: Republicans Overplayed and Democracy Answered | Steve Berman

KENTUCKY ABORTS: Republicans Overplayed and Democracy Answered | Steve Berman


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Why did a simple measure in Kentucky to amend the state constitution to add one sentence fail? “To protect human life, nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion?” was on the ballot in a state where five of six House districts …

SEEING RED: Predictions From My Crystal Ball | Steve Berman

SEEING RED: Predictions From My Crystal Ball | Steve Berman


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Salena Zito wrote a Saturday piece in the NY Post “why midterm voters will put Republicans in power across the US.” In interview after interview with average Americans of all political stripes, the same themes emerge: inflation, jobs, crime, drug use, homelessness, leadership and connection with voters. One voter, an immigrant, 65-year-old restaurant owner Emerencia Torma in …

ONE-HORSE JOE: Nobody’s Listening to His Democracy Plea | Steve Berman

ONE-HORSE JOE: Nobody’s Listening to His Democracy Plea | Steve Berman


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There are two dynamics going on this midterm cycle. One is that the GOP is about to scoop up both houses of Congress if Democrats don’t rise up on election day. The trends all point to momentum for the GOP, and momentum moves undecided voters from the edge to the winner’s side. Democrats are simultaneously looking …

BOO! 7 Ghouls For a Halloween Hater | Steve Berman

BOO! 7 Ghouls For a Halloween Hater | Steve Berman


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You like the movie “Aliens”? I do. Besides masterful performances from heroine Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the late Bill Paxton (Hudson), Michael Biehn (Hicks), Lance Henriksen (Bishop, the “synthetic life form”), Paul Reiser (Burke)—and the rest of the cast—and being one of the few examples of a movie sequel that’s better than its original (“The …