election

The GOP needs to get beyond 2020
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 17, 2022
It's understandable that Democrats would want to constantly revisit Jan. 6 — to invoke it, investigate it and sacralize it even. It's a mystery, at le...
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Missing pieces to NY election objectives
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jun 12, 2022
Not all of the election reform bills passed recently in the state Senate are bad bills. But Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, is right to point out ...
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Biden’s State of the Union was a repeat performance
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Mar 03, 2022
The state of Joe Biden’s presidency is enfeebled. His popularity has been dropping for months. The left and right wings of his party blame each other ...
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Amend the Electoral Count Act
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 22, 2022
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) is 809 words in 10 long and confusing sentences describing how Congress is meant to certify the election of a U....
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The GOP’s internal struggle
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 09, 2022
In an ideal world, it wouldn’t be hard for the Republican Party to do two things. The first is to acknowledge that former President Donald Trump’s cla...
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A narrow escape
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Jan 29, 2022
Conservatives celebrated the defeat of the Democrats’ “voting rights” bills on Capitol Hill. They should have, since these bills were a brazen attempt...
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Biden stays the disastrous course
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Jan 27, 2022
The failures of President Joe Biden’s first year in office are obvious to all. Inflation is raging. COVID is raging. Crime is spiking in some big citi...
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Now, the big bucks are with Kathy Hochul
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union 
Jan 26, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — For years, New Yorkers could count on Andrew Cuomo having more campaign cash than any politician in the state. That was one of the defi...
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Get absentee ballots right
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 25, 2022
Yes, our national discourse has been consumed with an incendiary lie about a stolen presidential election that’s become a mass delusion — and New York...
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NY Democrats defy voters, pave way for fraud
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 14, 2022
New York Democrats are so intent on locking in one-party rule, they’re blatantly defying what the voters just told them. The latest example: On Monday...
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Biden chose to divide
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 08, 2022
The only legitimate reason to stage an official anniversary commemoration of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots would be to issue a call to unity and urge the n...
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Falling faith in elections is not new
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Jan 06, 2022
For the last year, we’ve heard one commentator after another tell us that American democracy is in crisis. The source of that crisis, we are told, is ...
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Schumer’s Jan. 6 cynicism
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 05, 2022
On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters seeking to disrupt the counting of electoral votes breached the U.S. Capitol and rampaged for hours before order was restored...
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