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Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // Electoral College And Democracy
What a difference a debate makes. Three weeks ago, Barack Obama, his Chicago campaign staff and his cheerleaders at MSNBC were discussing possible changes in...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // When Elections Were Special
On the eve of the first debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, I found myself reading A Call from Jersey by friend and...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // An Opiate For Every Season
In a recent piece on the president in Vanity Fair, journalist Michael Lewis discovered that Barack Obama keeps the television set on Air Force One...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // Being A Vet Could Help Djou Win
It never pays to bet against an incumbent of either political party anywhere, and it certainly never pays to bet against an incumbent congressional candidate...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // Oh, Yeah, The Prosecutor Race
Despite early signs of senioritis, in even numbered years I still receive an invitation or two to take part in panels on the upcoming elections....

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // A Political Lull Before The Storm
Call it Hawaii’s post-primary political lull. In our one-party state, Aug. 11 decided so many contests that, in district after district, from Kau to Kapaa,...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // It’s The Political Silly Season
Ah, our quadrennial political silly season is in full flower – meaning that as I write, the Republicans have convened in Tampa, Fla., and as...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // Sobering Dose Of Economic Reality
The University of Hawaii’s fall semester began last week, and the thoughts of professors and students alike turned to syllabi and reading lists. I no...

MidWeek Staff
Mostly Politics // The Meaning Of The State Primary
So what happened Aug. 11? A number of things, some definitive, some merely suggestive. Let’s start with the definitive. Not many people voted. Despite a...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // ‘The Story’ Explains Who Obama Is
I’ve written and read too much about Barack Obama, and I am of an age that hefting a 571-page door-stopper of a book, not to...

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