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Mild-mannered and cautious election guru predicting GOP Armageddon

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By Bruce Maples
| Forward Kentucky
Longtime election analyst Charlie Cook has a piece up on his Substack looking at the fast-approaching midterms. It’s an interesting piece, an artifact of the moment, not simply because of what it predicts but because of the nature of the writing in which Cook seems to be grasping for metaphors about just how bad a situation Republicans face — a bit more stream of consciousness and performance art than one is used to in election analysis.
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The Wrap for Wednesday, 8/2

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By Bruce Maples
| Forward Kentucky
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Have the leopards eaten YOUR face?

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By Bruce Maples
| Forward Kentucky
There’s a famous tweet from the first time Donald Trump ran for president that perfectly captures both the absurdity of voting for him and the GOP in general, AND the regret that comes when you realize what you did: So here we are, over a decade later and into a second Trump term, and the leopards are eating pretty much everyone’s faces. Farmers – How’s the cost of fertilizer, with Trump’s tariffs? And speaking of tariffs: Are you selling as much as you were under Biden?
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