Victory Has 1,000 Fathers; Defeat Has 1,000

As A Personal Matter, I Stopped Voting More Than A Decade Ago, On The Grounds That It Helped Me As An Analyst Not To Think About Making A Choice In The Voting Booth.

If Obama's Vision Of The Public Sector Is Socialism, Then So Too Were The Visions Of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, And Richard Nixon.

In Another Life, Before Taking The Veil Of Journalistic Purity, I Practiced The Black Arts Of A Political Operative, Including 'debate Prep.

I Got Into Writing And Thinking About Politics Because I Was Told There Would Be No Math.

In Every Debate, Whatever The Format, Whatever The Questions, There Is One And Only One Way To Identify The Winner: Who Commands The Room? Who Drives The Narrative? Who Is In Charge?