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  • President Obama's Ironic Inaugural Address

    Number of comments: 10
    Who would have thought that President Obama’s Inaugural Address would:
    Have fewer applause lines than most Inaugural Addresses, but in the light of history will likely earn more accolades than most?Contain fewer uses of I than most, but use the collective we to strengthen his leadership more than most?Speak -- [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 4:27pm EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over"

    Number of comments: 7
    Yogi Berra got it right. “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over.”

    On November 1, 1948 Thomas E. Dewey led Harry S. Truman by 5 percent, 49.5 percent to 44.5 percent in the Gallup Poll, but on election day Truman beat Dewey by 4.4 percent, 49.5 percent to 45.1 %. [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 9:39am EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Who Will Win the White House?

    Number of comments: 8
    To win John McCain must snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Many times he has done just that, but now he faces a stacked deck.

    Economists, historians, political scientists, pollsters and psychologists point to an Obama victory, based upon their forecasting models and analysis.

    Economists find that [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 12:20pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Is Sarah Palin the Next Ronald Reagan?

    Number of comments: 11
    Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan appear poles apart in their backgrounds. Before coming to the center stage of national politics, Palin was a small-town mother of five and Governor of Alaska, and Reagan, a Hollywood actor and Governor of California. But these and other dramatic differences mask surprising similarities, which [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2008, 12:57pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • John McCain’s Lottery Game

    Number of comments: 3

    Selecting the right vice-presidential running mate is like winning the lottery. A survey of Republican vice presidential picks since 1960 shows that Republican presidential candidates have had the wrong lottery pick six times.

    As the saying goes, “He who does not learn from history is condemned to repeat it.” [...]

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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 12:49pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Tim Kaine for Vice President?

    Number of comments: 3
    Trends indicate a Democratic presidential candidate could win Virginia for the first time in 40 years, and perhaps thereby win the presidency itself. But why Virginia and why Tim Kaine for Vice President?

    In what promises to be another very tight election like 2000 and 2004, the change from [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 10:32am EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Tired of McCain and Obama?

    Number of comments: 1
    Are you tired of the presidential campaign? Should you be tired?
    To the casual observer, American presidential campaigns are excessively long. In some countries, national campaigns last no more than 30 days. But in America, they begin not with the 60 to 90 day, head-to-head race between the major party [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2008, 2:45pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Obama, Truman and a “Do-Nothing” Congress

    Number of comments: 7
    Will 2008 become 1948 in reverse?

    Public support for Congress has plummeted to all-time lows:

    • Only 9 percent of Americans give Congress a good or excellent rating, the lowest approval rating in the history of Rasmussen Reports tracking polls.

    • 52 percent in the Rasmussen survey [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2008, 5:34pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Obama’s Race against History

    Number of comments: 4
    Barack Obama should easily beat John McCain.

    After all Obama leads McCain by essentially every objective and subjective measurement, including (1) nationwide polling data, (2) polling data among key groups, (3) fund raising, (4) charisma, (5) speaking ability, and (6) the all-important barometer of public opinion. Believing that the [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2008, 12:02pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Presidential Preacher Politics

    Number of comments: 6
    Senator Obama has his Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger, and Senator McCain has his John Hagee and Rod Parsley.

    Republicans contend that Senator Obama has the more serious problem, because he sat under Pastor Wright’s preaching for 20 years and cultivated a close relationship with Pastor Pfleger, but Democrats [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 10:47am EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Hillary for Vice President?

    Number of comments: 3

    The more Senator Obama's nomination appears assured, the greater the pressure to unify the Democratic Party behind an Obama-Clinton ticket. But (1) should Senator Obama ask Senator Clinton to be his running mate? And if so, (2) should she accept?

    Of the seven criteria -- geography, ideology, religion, governance,' [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2008, 6:47pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Obama and McCain: Appearances and Achilles Heels

    Number of comments: 3
    Obama and McCain appear to have secured their respective party’s nominations, but appearances are deceiving. Neither has won the heart and soul of his party. Both have Achilles heels.

    Obama’s Achilles Heel

    Despite the best-financed and one of the best-organized presidential primary campaigns in American history, Senator [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 7:04am EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Clinton versus Obama: Beyond Pennsylvania

    Number of comments: 2
    Given what we now know, when the Democratic primaries and caucuses end, neither Senator Clinton nor Senator Obama will have a sufficient number of pledged delegates to win the presidential nomination. So they must make their cases to the “Super Delegates,” who hold the balance of power. How should they [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 2:37pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • John McCain: The Last Man Standing

    Number of comments: 1
    “Divided We Stand,” the bold headline in World (April 5/12: pp. 34-36), introduces an article about the religious right in presidential politics, which concludes:

    "Unable to unite behind a GOP candidate, religious right leaders face a wilderness road to the White House."

    Why did the religious right fall [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2008, 11:55am EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Conservatism versus Liberalism in the Presidential Campaign

    Number of comments: 0
    In 1964 the Republican Party candidate for President, Barry Goldwater, advocated abolition of Social Security while campaigning in St. Petersburg, Florida, and elimination of the Tennessee Valley Authority on a campaign trip to Tennessee.

    In 1972 the Democratic Party candidate, George McGovern, advocated a major shift in tax policy, [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2008, 11:37am EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • The Presidential Marathon: Part Two

    Number of comments: 1

    Who will win the marathon race to the White House? If history is the best predictor of the future, then prognosticators should carefully examine the following three conclusions about the 19 Presidents from William McKinley through George W. Bush.

    First, 14 of the 19 Presidents have come from the [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2008, 1:55pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • The Presidential Marathon

    Number of comments: 1

    Who will win the White House? If history is the best predictor of the future, the winner will have sustained a long public career, often over decades. Using the modern presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt through George W. Bush as illustrations:

    Franklin D. Roosevelt served in the President’s Cabinet [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2008, 5:43pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Vice Presidents: Youve Come a Long Way, Baby.

    Number of comments: 1
    There is more to the vice-presidential debate between Senators Clinton and Obama than meets the eye. Because the choice of a vice-presidential running mate can significantly change history, it is an important test of a presidential candidate's judgment. But it was not always so.

    The first of Franklin D.' [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 7:19pm EDT
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • William F. Buckley: His Overlooked Legacy

    Number of comments: 0
    As beautiful as water gushing from Buckingham Fountain, so have tributes gushed forth with praise for William F. Buckley's greatness.

    But as John Donne said: "No man is an island unto himself." What Buckley did, he did not do alone.

    First, others set the stage for Buckley's rise [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 7:11pm EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Ralph Nader: The Energizer Bunny

    Number of comments: 0
    Ralph Nader is now the Energizer Bunny of presidential candidates. Much like the Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas, who ran for president during six straight presidential elections from 1928 to 1948, Ralph Nader has competed for the presidency in every primary or general election since 1992.

    In 1992 Nader [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2008, 10:40am EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Obama's Two Achilles' Heals

    Number of comments: 2
    Senator Barak Obama, now surfing on the crest of the wave of rock stardom, appears to have the Democratic presidential nomination in easy reach and a head start on winning the presidency. No candidate in the history of presidential politics has ever attracted crowds like those of a rock star. [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2008, 11:29am EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Bloomberg's Bubble

    Number of comments: 1
    Has the bubble burst on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's third-party candidacy? If the Mayor's avoidance of the subject means anything, then the bubble has burst.

    But why?

    Certainly money is not the reason. After all Bloomberg's multi-billion dollar fortune makes Mitt Romney's multi-million dollar fortune look like a [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2008, 2:56pm EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Al Gore on the Horizon?

    Number of comments: 0
    Will the presidential sun rise on Al Gore? If the Clinton versus Obama shoot-out continues with neither emerging as the party's presumptive nominee before the Democratic National Convention, Al Gore could emerge as the Party's standard bearer. Put another way who better than Al Gore to serve as a consensus [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2008, 9:28pm EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • The Key that Unlocks the White House Door

    Number of comments: 3
    In 1968 Richard Nixon rode his "southern strategy" into the White House. In 1976 Jimmy Carter rallied the South to win the nomination and then the election. In 1980 Ronald Reagan began his campaign in the South, in Mississippi. In 1988 George H.W. Bush carried the South against Michael Dukakis. [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 10:19am EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Cherry Picking and Leveraging in a Civil War

    Number of comments: 1
    As the possibility of a deadlocked and brokered Republican National Convention looms on the horizon, Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, Paul and Romney must now concentrate on cherry picking delegates so as to leverage their influence in the selection of presidential and vice-presidential nominees and in drafting the platform. A winner may [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2008, 10:57am EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • The Bell Curve, Centers of Political Gravity and The Magnet of the Middle

    Number of comments: 3
    Ideologically Americans are like a bell curve. Most are neither far left nor far right, but in the middle, which is the center of gravity of power in presidential politics. Whenever a major party nominates a candidate far outside the mainstream of American political thought, that party loses in a [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2008, 2:01pm EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Hillary Clinton's Talk Show

    Number of comments: 0
    Conservatives, Republicans and Barack Obama may not want to hear this, but Hillary Clinton has hit her stride with “The Hillary Clinton Talk Show.” Rather than talking down to people from the stage with a set speech and allowing no opportunity to take questions, she now visits with people on [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2008, 5:14pm EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Political Potpourri: Handicapping the Republican Race

    Number of comments: 4
    • Mitt Romney’s Hail-Mary Pass.
    • Giuliani’s High-Stakes Poker Game.
    • John “The Energizer Bunny” McCain.
    • Fred Thompson: Hibernating Bear or Rip Van Winkle?
    • Is Mike Huckabee the Republican Reincarnation of Jimmy Carter?
    • Will Smoke-Filled Rooms Make a Comeback at the National Convention?
    • Ron Paul’s One-Man Band.
    Mitt Romney’s Hail-Mary Pass. In Michigan Mitt Romney faces fourth and [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2008, 9:43am EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • McCain's Resurrection from the Dead

    Number of comments: 1
    Not so long ago the high priests of political punditry pronounced "last rites" on John McCain's presidential campaign. Out of money and in organizational disarray, the McCain campaign looked like it was dead on arrival before the primaries and caucuses began. But in a modern-day political miracle not only has [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2008, 11:20am EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Romney's Roller-Coaster

    Romney's campaign looks like a ride on a Six Flags roller-coaster. Beginning his campaign with little name recognition, then rising high to become the odds-on favorite to win Iowa and New Hampshire, he has now plummeted into a do-or-die contest in New Hampshire after his stunning defeat in Iowa. Why? [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2008, 11:19am EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • Huckabees Seven Hopes

    Number of comments: 2
    Contrary to what many critics think, Huckabee has more going for him than the evangelical vote. Iowa was not a fluke win for Huckabee, whose slogan, “I like Mike,” could carry him far.

    First, his popularity extends into two of the largest voting blocs in America, fans of NASCAR [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2008, 11:19am EST
    by The Chuck Dunn Report

  • McCain's Resurrection from the Dead

    Not so long ago the high priests of political punditry pronounced "last rites" on John McCain's presidential campaign. Out of money and in organizational disarray, the McCain campaign looked like it was dead on arrival before the primaries and caucuses began. But in a modern-day political miracle not only has [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2008, 4:34pm EST

  • Romney's Roller-Coaster

    Romney's campaign looks like a ride on a Six Flags roller-coaster. Beginning his campaign with little name recognition, then rising high to become the odds-on favorite to win Iowa and New Hampshire, he has now plummeted into a do-or-die contest in New Hampshire after his stunning defeat in Iowa. Why? [...]
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    Posted: January 05, 2008, 2:16pm EST

  • Huckabees Seven Hopes

    Contrary to what many critics think, Huckabee has more going for him than the evangelical vote. Iowa was not a fluke win for Huckabee, whose slogan, I like Mike, could carry him far.

    First, his popularity extends into two of the largest voting blocs in America, fans of NASCAR [...]
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    Posted: January 04, 2008, 2:29pm EST
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