John Nichols: Tommy Thompson had the right formula in 1994 campaign
Thirty years ago this fall, Tommy Thompson built one of the most remarkable electoral coalitions in Wisconsin history.
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Thirty years ago this fall, Tommy Thompson built one of the most remarkable electoral coalitions in Wisconsin history.
Former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney put country over party.
Show us you’re Bobby Kennedy’s kind of tough liberal — or perhaps tender conservative — which is precisely what we need to stitch back together this divided land.
Was Ronald Reagan perfect? No. But he was the perfect man for the time. Was the Reagan movie perfect? No. But it’s the perfect movie for THIS time.
Can you imagine the Republican titans of the 20th century coming back and hearing these outrageous comments?
Dumping the Electoral College would have a variety of consequences, but it would immediately remove opportunities for disrupting elections via battleground states.
She’s lied about protecting the American steel industry and union pensions, but now Baldwin’s lying about helping veterans and that really crosses the line.
In 1987, a year after graduating from college, Hovde and his father, Donald Hovde, launched Hovde Financial. And the elder Hovde had connections at the highest level of American politics.
If Florida shuns the federal money, its taxpayers are essentially funding EV chargers in other states, like California and New York, just as Wisconsin taxpayers did when Walker rejected the train money.
Legacy of segregation and Jim Crow still impacts Black lives.
We face the additional challenge of ensuring that states have confident, competent educators to teach this critical subject.
Don’t get excited. It’s not going to happen.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the status of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race between challenger Eric Hovde and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
In the political climate we find ourselves in as a nation, a visit by the president to a small town has other tones and implications than it might not have had some years ago.
While the left freaks out about Project 2025 because of its conservative principles of limited government that’s held accountable to the people, no one’s talking about Agenda 2030, the left’s radical plan for consolidating global power, seizing private property, and extinguishing individual liberty.
Thirty years ago this fall, Tommy Thompson built one of the most remarkable electoral coalitions in Wisconsin history.
Former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney put country over party.
Show us you’re Bobby Kennedy’s kind of tough liberal — or perhaps tender conservative — which is precisely what we need to stitch back together this divided land.
Was Ronald Reagan perfect? No. But he was the perfect man for the time. Was the Reagan movie perfect? No. But it’s the perfect movie for THIS time.
Can you imagine the Republican titans of the 20th century coming back and hearing these outrageous comments?
Dumping the Electoral College would have a variety of consequences, but it would immediately remove opportunities for disrupting elections via battleground states.
She’s lied about protecting the American steel industry and union pensions, but now Baldwin’s lying about helping veterans and that really crosses the line.
In 1987, a year after graduating from college, Hovde and his father, Donald Hovde, launched Hovde Financial. And the elder Hovde had connections at the highest level of American politics.
If Florida shuns the federal money, its taxpayers are essentially funding EV chargers in other states, like California and New York, just as Wisconsin taxpayers did when Walker rejected the train money.
Legacy of segregation and Jim Crow still impacts Black lives.
We face the additional challenge of ensuring that states have confident, competent educators to teach this critical subject.
Don’t get excited. It’s not going to happen.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the status of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race between challenger Eric Hovde and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
In the political climate we find ourselves in as a nation, a visit by the president to a small town has other tones and implications than it might not have had some years ago.
While the left freaks out about Project 2025 because of its conservative principles of limited government that’s held accountable to the people, no one’s talking about Agenda 2030, the left’s radical plan for consolidating global power, seizing private property, and extinguishing individual liberty.