Politics has always had its tricks. The misleading mailer, the dawn robocall, the rumor started at the diner counter. But it takes a particular kind of nerve to go looking for a man whose main qualification for the U.S. Senate is his name. According to the New York Times, that’s what people around Mary Peltola’s
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In politics, the tell is often what someone leaves out. A week before the midterms, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down for an interview that aired on C-SPAN. He was asked to
Eight days before an election, everything a politician does sends a message: where she shows up, who she sits next to, and what she lets slide. On Monday night in Minneapolis, Rep.
The pollster confessed before anyone in the newsroom caught on. On Tuesday night, Wedgewood Polls, a young firm whose numbers had made their way into The New York Times’ poll tracker and
James Carville has spent 40 years telling Democrats how to win. This week he told them what kind of winning he can’t stand. It isn’t losing. It’s winning small. “I would rather
