Partisan Politics

‘Winning the debt-limit fight’

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 July 2011

Okay, who’s fighting, what’s this fight over, and how do you define ‘winning’?

Anti-Dem or pro-GOP?

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 November 2010

It’s being referred to in terms of natural upheaval. Tuesday’s election is predicted to be a tidal wave or an earthquake. Indeed, this event was prompted by nature….human nature.

Do negative campaign ads work?

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 October 2010

They work both ways. They incite repulsive backlash among a sector of the electorate sick and tired of politics as usual. And they fuel real fear and anger over government overreach and expansion into the furthest reaches of Americans’ lives. So who wins in these continuing on-air battles?

‘Fact-lite partisan outrage’

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 July 2010

So it’s not just a heated atmosphere in the runup to the mid-term election? Rage is the new ’politics as usual’  in Washington politics?