midterm

Trump’s miserable month
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 18, 2022
So far, Donald Trump is having the worst campaign launch since Beto O’Rourke. Like almost everything else he’s done lately, his early announcement of ...
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Is Biden fatally stubborn, or virtuously tenacious?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 21, 2022
Sunday was Joe Biden’s 80th birthday. Our first octogenarian president is two years older than Ronald Reagan was when his presidency ended in 1989. Bi...
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Joe Biden’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ slander
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Oct 26, 2022
Early voting began in Georgia several days ago. There is, of course, intense interest in both the state’s Senate race, with University of Georgia foot...
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Abortion not the boost Democrats hoped
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 24, 2022
Joe Biden wants voters to focus on abortion rights. Last week, just three weeks before the midterm elections, the president said that if Democrats do ...
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Republicans and bias in midterm polls
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Oct 12, 2022
Republicans always believe the polls are slanted against them. That belief has sometimes caused them to misread big political races. In 2012, for exam...
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The Democrats have a culture-war midterm strategy
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Sep 09, 2022
Who’s using the culture war to distract from the economy now? Democrats have long believed — going back at least to the famous 2005 Thomas Frank book,...
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Joe Biden still dragging his party down
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Aug 24, 2022
There has been a surge of optimism among Democrats lately when it comes to November’s midterm elections. The short version of the thinking is: Maybe w...
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Bad economic news, 1970s-style
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 01, 2022
U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conju...
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Long inflation and its political consequences
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Mar 23, 2022
While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Mo...
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Texas gives Dems midterm edge
Local Columnists, Nation World
NOLAN FINLEY Tribune News Service 
Sep 11, 2021
Texas Republicans just handed back to Democrats the mid-term election advantage President Joe Biden has spent all year squandering. By effectively mak...
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Abortion rises as major election issue
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Sep 08, 2021
After President Joe Biden’s tragic spectacle of administrative incompetence, pundits said Afghanistan was going to be the chief issue in the midterm e...
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Biden and the first 100 days in office
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Apr 29, 2021
A president’s first 100 days are an arbitrary benchmark, a point of measurement journalists are fond of because it allows us to draw comparisons betwe...
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Progressive Perspective: Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
Commentary, Local Columnists
JENNIFER GREENIDGE, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 11, 2019
Fascism is a radical form of authoritarian ultranationalism that is characterized by dictatorial power, suppression of opposition and regimentation of...
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Top 10 stories of 2018 in the Olean area
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Olean Times Herald staff 
Dec 31, 2018
With anxieties riding high across the U.S., it’s no surprise localized stories about national topics sparked huge interest in 2018. The rise of metham...
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