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Opinion: The 10 Worst Predictions for 2010

If 2010 taught us anything, it's that few people are able to accurately predict even the simplest events in the near-term future, let alone the big ones. From the price of gold, to unemployment, to Google Wave, prognosticators got more than a few major items wrong in their predictions lists. Here, in no particular order,...

Are Land-Line Phone Users More Republican?

(Nov. 28) -- Does how you vote depend on how you call? Not exactly. But professional pollsters for years have been trying to adapt their surveys to an American populace increasingly reliant on cell phones and less universally reachable by land lines. The Pew Research Center this week offered evidence that depending on...

Are Older Voters Blocking Social Policy Changes?

ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (Nov. 18) -- As the baby boomers who gave us the term "generation gap" turn 65, a new divide is opening between young and old over everything from health care to gay rights to the right to get high. Republicans and Democrats alike insist it's time to stop piling debt onto future generations, yet...

Opinion: Nancy Pelosi -- Clueless in San Francisco

(Nov. 12) -- You remember the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" with Meg Ryan in the female lead? Well, now there's a new one out in the same genre. This one is called "Clueless in San Francisco," currently playing in Washington, D.C., and starring Nancy Pelosi. How clueless is Pelosi? Well, look at it this way: In the midterm...

GOP Leaders Look to Oust RNC Chairman Michael Steele

(Nov. 10) -- Some thanks this is. After a sweeping Republican victory at the polls last week -- which saw gains in the House, Senate and state legislatures -- GOP leaders nonetheless are trying to oust their leader, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. "His critics say Mr. Steele has performed poorly at...

Background on midterm elections

Midterm elections in the United States refer to general elections in the United States that are held two years after the quadrennial (four-year) elections for the President of the United States (i.e.

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