Dick Polman
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Can the GOP nuke its own nominee?
In the last 24 hours the Republican race has gone nuclear. Everybody is suddenly fixated on the Republican National Committee byla ...
10 years ago
Reality strangles invention: Just another day in the ’16 campaign
Years from now, if the grandkids ask you what the ’16 presidential campaign was really like, just tell them about August 2. It was ...
10 years ago
Trump tees up the Citizen Kane excuse
We knew this was coming. At a rally yesterday, Donald Trump said: “I’m afraid the election is gonna be rigged, I ...
10 years ago
Vote-suppressing racist Republicans lose big in swing state
Here’s the ’16 campaign in a nutshell: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine spent the weekend barnstorming by bus in middle-American ...
10 years ago
Hillary Clinton makes history, savages Trump, channels Sinatra
Before we get started, we need to park our jaded cynicism and celebrate the fact that 96 years after women finally won the right to vote, ...
10 years ago
Michael Bloomberg’s pithy pitch to the independents
While guesting this morning on R ...
10 years ago
Obama and friends capture the flag
President Obama, with herculean help last night from supporting players, has put Hillary Clinton on the high road to November. Wha ...
10 years ago
The Democrats tend not to wallow in the sewer with infantile chants like “Lock Her Up.” Thus far, anyway, their preferred tac ...
10 years ago
Bill and Hillary sittin’ in a tree
Bill Clinton’s love letter to Hillary was sweet and cringeworthy, and at times it was like one of those overlong wedding toasts tha ...
10 years ago
The umpteenth introduction of Hillary Clinton
It’s biography night at the Democratic Convention. Even though Hillary Clinton — now the nominee by acclamation — has spent 24 ...
10 years ago
‘I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.’
Mark McKinnon, who used to strategize for George W. Bush, said a few hours ago, “Michelle Obama delivered one of the best speeches ...
10 years ago
Bernie tells the Bros that reality isn’t sexy
Props to Bernie Sanders last night for expending zillions of gallons of water to hose down his disruptive convention diehards. It was hig ...
10 years ago