<div><p><span>It goes without saying that the Republican Party’s nomination of Donald Trump, a high-profile businessman with no experience holding elected office, for the presidency has been the most discussed development in American politics this year. News coverage of Mr. Trump’s primary victory e

Just How Deep Is The GOP Divide over Trump?

<div><p>In the aftermath of the departures of both U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio from the Republican presidential primary contest, the public’s attention is now beginning to shift toward a general election race between real estate mogul <strong><a href="http://ivn.us/tag/d

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<div><p>In June, <a href="http://ivn.us/tag/bernie-sanders" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Bernie Sanders</strong></a>, a U.S. senator from Vermont and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, made waves in the world of political punditry when he suggested in a letter to the 

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<div><p>Ever since the days of the Roman republic, when Quintus Tullius Cicero wrote a brief work titled “Little Handbook on Electioneering” for his brother Marcus, then a candidate for consul in Rome, political consultants have had a heavy presence in campaigns for public office.</p><p>In American 

Rise of the Super Consultant: Why These Men and Women Have So Much Power over Elections

<div><p>When it comes to politics, 2014 may be remembered as the year of the improbable. In Kansas, a GOP stronghold, both the Republican governor and a very conservative senator are fighting for their political lives against a moderate Democrat and an independent, respectively.</p><p>Meanwhile, in 

How Mass. Republican Charlie Baker is Winning with Independent Voters

<div><p>Kansas Republican Gov. <strong>Sam Brownback</strong> is in the fight for his political life in what was once one of America's deepest red states. In 2004, Brownback won election to the U.S. Senate with 69.2 percent of the vote; in 2010, he won the state's governorship with 63.3 percent of t

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<div><p>On June 26, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released a 185-page <a href="http://www.people-press.org/files/2014/06/6-26-14-Political-Typology-release.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">report </a>titled, "Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology." What makes this report s

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<div><p>In 1946, after winning control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time in 14 years, Republican legislators set about establishing term limits for the office of President of the United States. The Twenty-Second Amendment to the United States Constitution wa

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<div>Recently, American foreign policy priorities have been highly focused on the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions. Between winding down the U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and navigating the tumult caused by the Arab Spring, President Obama has spent much of his diplomatic capita

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