Ascent Strategic — a prominent political consulting firm — has a reminder for candidates and political organizations poised to encounter the midterm elections. “This all-important election cycle is truly underway, but are you ready? T…
Author: Jennifer Harper
Inside the Beltway: Biden’s ‘MSNBC administration’
Watchdog groups have long tracked liberal bias in the news media, a force first identified in a landmark survey of 238 journalists conducted in 1981 by political-science scholars Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman. It found that 54% of the respondents …
Inside the Beltway: Media squints at Jan. 6 anniversary
It’s been a year since the unfortunate attack on the U.S. Capitol. The event has been heavily covered by the news media, analysts and pundits for the last 12 months — and that coverage continues. There is much focus on security issues, political …
Inside the Beltway: Bring back the ‘America First’ agenda
The promising news these days is that the Republican Party could reclaim the U.S. Congress in November. That’s a start. “But taking nominal control of Capitol Hill won’t be enough. Will Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and their lie…
Inside the Beltway: Donald Trump Jan. 6 press conference stirs media curiosity
The press is already offering both news and commentary about former President Donald Trump for a very specific reason. Mr. Trump is planning a press conference late afternoon Thursday from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. And of course, Thursday i…
Inside the Beltway: Is U.S. destiny a Red Nation and a Blue Nation?
Does the American public believe the United States should cease to be united and divide into two separate nations based on political beliefs? There’s a poll, which offers some noteworthy findings as the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the…
Inside the Beltway: ‘Crime-panicked wealthy’ now want guns
Things changed in the year 2021. Los Angeles Magazine reports that attitudes towards firearms are evolving in the Golden State. “The arms race of the affluent: From Beverly Hills to Santa Monica, the crime-panicked wealthy are banishing bling and…
Inside the Beltway: January 6 anniversary just a week away
The first anniversary of the Jan. 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol is a week away, and it has prompted a frenzy among news organizations anxious to weigh in on this very unfortunate day, and from every imaginable angle. How do Americans feel? The pollste…
Inside the Beltway: ‘The View’ ‘struggling’ to fix Republican-free lineup
ABC’s daytime news and opinion show “The View” is now in the news itself. The program still has not found a replacement for Republican Meghan McCain, who left the program in August. It is apparently a struggle, at least according to c…
Inside the Beltway: Fox News still the leader at 25
After a quarter-century on the air, Fox News has marked its 25th anniversary by dominating the overall cable world for the sixth year in a row, according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox News averaged 2.4 million primetime viewers compared to CNN which d…