Paul Green
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Cash dash pushing party politics asideFeb 28, 2014 4:05 am - To paraphrase an old folk song, "Where have all the politicians gone?" American electoral politics is in the middle of a revolution that is seeing political parties beco...
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Clinging to a memory that still ‘tingles’Nov 21, 2013 3:00 pm - Except for three presidential icons — Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — no president has been analyzed, interpreted and reinterpreted more than J...
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Hooked on politics after one night in ’60Oct 25, 2013 5:00 am - On Nov. 4, 1960, I was a freshman at the University of Illinois-Navy Pier. I was not very political, though I had been following the presidential campaign between John K...
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A fair assessment of politics for 2014Aug 18, 2013 5:00 am - The Illinois State Fair in Springfield is a grand event for a state whose population is tilting quickly northeast to metropolitan Chicagoland. Its main draw is agricultu...
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Who has ammo in state’s three-way staredown?Jun 25, 2013 5:00 am - In the great movie “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” the main characters have a film ending staredown/three-way shootout in a cemetery that has one grave filled with bur...
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GOP’s problems were bigger than just Candy and SandyNov 14, 2012 5:33 pm - The 2012 presidential election is at last over. And despite all of the political spinning, huge expenditures of money, media driven hoopla and an ongoing terrible econom...
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Post conventions, focus is on turnoutSep 14, 2012 5:00 am - The national party conventions are over and the real presidential campaign has begun — meaning enormous amounts of money are now being spent on partisan television ads i...
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The GOP’s loosening grip on suburbiaJun 21, 2012 5:00 am - Decades ago when I was in graduate school, the famous University of Chicago professor Richard Wade uttered one of the most important truths about our political system: “...
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Mapping out a sweet deal for DemocratsJan 06, 2012 4:01 am - More than 20 years ago I wrote an article for an academic journal on redistricting in Illinois. I said the driving forces behind this “most partisan act” were 1) territo...
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Suburbs still not among GOP foldNov 03, 2010 3:19 pm - Election night was a disaster for Illinois Democrats, but it could have been worse. In fact, it should have been worse. Why? Since 2009, the Democrats nationally and in ...