John McCain is not an ideological conservative. Indeed, throughout his career he has taken positions which many on the right find indefensible. At some point during his political life, McCain has found a way to anger or annoy every major constituency of the GOP. Here is a beginners guide [...]

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The Democratic Party created super-delegates in the wake of Jimmy Carter’s crushing defeat in 1980. Combined with the Mcgovern debacle of 1972, it seemed to the Democratic elites that the party’s nomination process had been hijacked by radicals who could not settle on a nominee within the mainstream of American [...]

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