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Opportunities for Positive Testimony

  • Religion
October 24, 2016July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The candidacy of Donald Trump, and his takeover of the Republican Party, has split the American evangelical world and is, I think, purging it.  But it is creating opportunities for positive testimony as well.  The Daily Beast, far from a […]

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The Adams Map: A Different Spectrum, A Challenge – Part 2

  • Culture
June 28, 2016January 10, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It occurs to me that Adams anticipates Trump.  However, when I wrote this I thought the people on the lower left corner weren’t going to turn out to vote.  Therefore the culture wars between the upper left and lower right […]

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Trump and Sanders: Where You’ve Seen Them Before

  • Politics
March 27, 2016December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is kind of a shock to the American system.  But a European would know exactly, in my opinion, where they fit in.  Trump is not at all a conservative according to the […]

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The Midterm Turnout Problem

  • Politics
November 20, 2014December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It is well known that important constituencies, especially those for the Democratic Party, have not been turning out in ‘midterm’ elections in the last few years.  In fact, a New York Times writer has endorsed eliminating ‘midterms’ for that very […]

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The Late Chaim Potok and the 2012 Election

  • Politics
January 4, 2014December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

My apologies for my long silence.  I was gone for five weeks, mainly on my wife’s business, but the last portion of the trip was a journey through the north of Greece looking mostly at painted churches.  I should start […]

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There’s More to the World than America

  • Politics
December 23, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I am not all that upset about the November election, for two reasons: 1. The church is growing so fast in Africa and China that it more than makes up for our losses in America and the West.  I feel […]

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The D.C. Mistake

  • Politics
October 23, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We have been warned both by Nate Silver and by the Washington Post that there is a possibility of an electoral tie with each side getting 269 electoral votes.  How did we end up with that possibility?  How did we end […]

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Why Do They Think Pennsylvania is a Swing State and We’re Not?

  • California
October 13, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have seen it said that Pennsylvania is a ‘swing state’ in this election. Nobody maintains that California is. But I looked at the presidential electoral maps of the past, and I found that Dukakis, against Bush Senior, lost ten […]

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Politician Speak with Forked Tongue: Or, The Electorate and The Donorate

  • Politics
September 24, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Peter Beinart in the Daily Beast speaks of the desirability of having the press crash fundraisers.  In today’s American political world, people seeking elected offices have two audiences, the electorate and the donorate; and in many ways, the donorate [or, […]

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Unintended Consequences of Arizona’s Clean Elections Act

  • Politics
July 18, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Conservatives oppose campaign finance reform of any kind, even when, as in Arizona, the Tea Party has been benefiting from it! Related: “Arizona conservatives scramble after campaign finance law’s defeat” by Nicholas Riccardi at LATimes.com

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