RealClearPolitics Week of October 12, 2026 Archives

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Monday, October 12

GOP Scrambles To Stop Steep Midterm Losses

Cancryn, et al., CNN

The Blue Wave Looks Real Until You Look a Little Closer

Howard Kurtz, FOX News

Dems Offering a Scant Agenda. Do They Need More?

Karen Tumulty, Washington Post

Abdul El-Sayed's Unanswered Questions

Audrey Fahlberg, The Free Press

Why El-Sayed Is Struggling w/Black Voters in Michigan

Charles Blow, The Guardian

With 'Sick' Dems Like Talarico, How Are They Ahead?

Miranda Devine, NY Post

How the GOP Weaponized Trans Issues Against Democrats

Kevin Rector, LA Times

Maine Democrats Worry Susan Collins Is 'Teflon'

Grace Panetta, Salon

Will Diesel Diplomacy Decide the Midterms?

David Rundell, UnHerd

Trump's Diesel Deal Is a Catastrophic Miscalculation

Con Coughlin, The Telegraph

Vance Is Trying To Connect With Voters. Is It Working?

Akayla Gardner, MS Now

What I Saw and Heard in Vance Country

Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative

Kimberly Guilfoyle's Grifting Scandal Keeps Getting Worse

Inae Oh, Mother Jones

Elon and the Vampires

Sasha Stone, Substack

Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble

William McRaven, The Atlantic

World Wars Don't Start All at Once

Francis Sempa, RealClearDefense

Why We'll Keep Arguing Over the Meaning of Columbus Day

Jason Schlosberg, LAT

Latest Polls: Sen: MN, NC, ME, SC, MI, AK, TX | Gov: NM, ME, IA, MN, OH, TX, FL

Tuesday, October 13

Why It's So Hard To Fight Mass Migration

Alicia Nieves, UnHerd

Dems Getting Cover From GOP Spending Surge

David Dayen, American Prospect

The High Cost of El-Sayed

Byron York, Washington Examiner

Sherrod Brown Betting on Data Center Backlash in Ohio

Vitali & Boudreaux, MS Now

Inside Musk's Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans

Theodore Schleifer, NY Times

We're Not at War With Russia, Oil Deal Puts U.S. First

Mollie Hemingway, FOX News

Europe Looks for Options as Ukraine Costs Mount

Tamar Jacoby, Washington Monthly

Smackdown: Bessent Gives Warren Economic Lesson

Monica Showalter, Am. Thinker

Rep. Jeffries: The Next House Speaker?

Hewitt, Rameswaram & Zengerle, Vox

Investigators Calling Rep. Omar Probe 'World War Eleven'

Drew Berkemeyer, Daily Wire

Livestreaming Hasan Execution Is High-Tech Barbarism

Sasha Abramsky, The Nation

McRaven Misfires on Public Execution

John Waters, RealClearDefense

Islam Is Not Compatible With Western Civilization

Steve Cortes, Charlie Kirk Show

Israel's War on Gaza Has Changed the World

Steve Bloomfield, The Guardian

What Might Have Saved Gaza?

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Guilfoyle's Days in Greece May Be Numbered

Steve Benen, MS Now

Censorship, Speech Police Becoming Focal Point in UK

Sharyl Attkisson, Full Measure

Senate: 46D,46R,8TU: Dem +3, Odds | House: 226D,189R,20TU: Dem +21, Odds

Wednesday, October 14

GOP Has Seen This Midterm Before - 20 Years Ago

Merrill Matthews, USA Today

3 Weeks Out, GOP Plays Defense

Bevan, Cannon, Kraushaar & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

Talarico Has Democrats Dreaming Big in Texas

Zeleny & Svitek, CNN

Minnesota Fed Up w/Fraud, May Derail Dems' Midterm Dreams

Isaac Schorr, NYPost

Why Trump's Midterm Rally Blitz Probably Won't Work

Bill Scher, Washington Monthly

Dems' Not-So-Secret Midterm Campaigns for White House

Susan Page, USA Today

5 Years Later, the Truth About Garland's School Board Memo

Erika Sanzi, The Hill

Raid on Omar's House Is Dangerous Political Theater

Moira Donegan, The Guardian

Livestreaming Nidal Hasan’s Execution Is a Bad Idea

Jason Riley, WSJ

Trump’s New Press Secretary Is Unbearable

Poppy Coburn, The Telegraph

From the Ruins of Gaza, Palestinians Carry On

Mohammed Mhawish, MS Now

Why the Young Right’s Sympathy for Israel Is Dwindling

Paul Gottfried, Chronicles

Inside Kimberly Guilfoyle's Final Days as Ambassador to Greece

Mattioli, et al., WSJ

Greta Thunberg Is the Personification of Empty Activism

Joanna Williams, Telegraph

MAGA’s Talarico Conspiracy Theory Has No 'Off' Switch

Jeremiah Johnson, Substack

A Mental-Health Requirement for Lawmakers?

Raw Egg Nationalist, American Greatness

Shane Gillis and Why the Left Still Can't Take a Joke

Sasha Stone, Substack

Latest Polls: TX (Marist): Talarico 47, Paxton 45 | ME (Suffolk): Jackson +2

Thursday, October 15

How Debanking Took Hold Inside the Biggest Banks

Rupa Subramanya, The Free Press

It's Better Than Under Biden, But Inflation Still Vexes U.S.

Byron York, DC Examiner

How Trump Lost Control

Kate Andrews, Washington Post

El-Sayed Struggling To 'Set the Record Straight'

Josh Hammer, New York Post

The Jewish Case for Electing El-Sayed in Michigan

Simon Lazarus, The New Republic

Don't Count GOP Out of Midterms Yet

Jonathan Draeger, RealClearPolitics

Same Old, Same Old European Runaround

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Trump Tries Ukraine Midterm Extortion

S.V. Date, HuffPost

Rep. Omar and America

James Freeman, Wall Street Journal

What Role Should the Supreme Court Play in Politics?

John Witt, The Nation

One Could Say That Cornell Is Infantilizing Female Students

Heather Mac Donald, X

I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep

Derek Thompson, Substack

AI Pessimism Risks Handing China the Lead

Paul Sracic, RealClearPolitics

America Needs More Capital

Larry Fink, Wall Street Journal

We Know How To Fix Homelessness. Look at Denver

German Lopez, New York Times

Ossoff, Collins Get Nasty in GA

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM

James Lindsay's Fever Dream

Michael Anton, The American Mind

Friday, October 16

Why Trump Is Going In When the Money Is Coming Out

Gangitano, et al., Politico

Midterms Look Good for Dems, But That's Not a Guarantee

Hayes Brown, MS Now

Talarico Strikes Out on Easy Mode at CNN Town Hall

Nicole Russell, USA Today

A Minnesota Sleeper? Tafoya, Flanagan in 'Close' Senate Race

Zeleny & Wright, CNN

Poll: Majority Wants Less Red Tape To Cut Energy Costs

Jonathan Draeger, RCP

Alaska Considers Economic Suicide

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

Trump's Diesel Deal Is Shameful

Thomas Friedman, New York Times

The Russia, Russia, Russia Nonsense Is So Tiring

J.B. Shurk, American Thinker

France's Students Won't Back Down

Diana Cordoba, The Nation

Thinking About Race and IQ

Peder Zane, RealClearPolitics

A Novel That Looks Deep Into a Crisis on Campus

Rumaan Alam, The New Republic

How Big Money Is Pulling the Democrats Left

Michael Baharaeen, UnHerd

The Primary Electorate Is Its Own Harshest Critic

Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics

'Nonissue' of Noncitizens Voting Is Becoming Bigger Issue

M.D. Kittle, The Federalist

Rep. Huizenga Faces Toughest Re-Election Race Yet

Jarod Facundo, Am. Prospect

Ticket-Splitting in Iowa and Kansas

Bevan, Cannon, Kimball & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

Zuckerberg vs. the Pint of Guinness

Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal

Saturday, October 17

The Rise and Fall of Katie Zacharia

Lumetta & Crabtree, RealClearPolitics

Zacharia Fired After Just 5 Days: 'Did Anyone Vet Her?'

Holmes, Treene & Liptak, CNN

Sherrod Brown's Troubling Pledge on Judges

Jonathan Turley, FOX News

One Democrat Who Knows What a Blue Wave Feels Like

Kevin Robillard, HuffPost

Welcome to The Poll Vault

Sean Trende, Substack

Have Leftist Professors Poisoned the Electorate?

John Ellis, Wall Street Journal

Rubio Misunderstands What Makes the West Great

Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post

What the Godfather of Foreign Policy Realism Would Say

Francis Sempa, RCDefense

Zelensky Needs To Learn the Fine Art of Shutting Up

Marc Thiessen, FOX News

The Importance of Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize

Stephen Zunes, The Nation

DOJ Sues CA Over Non-Citizen Voters

Bevan, Cannon & Porter, RCP on SiriusXM

America's Net Zero Near Miss

Rupert Darwall, The American Mind

Why We Remain Fascinated by Elizabeth Holmes

David Smith, The Guardian

What Do You Do With Tom Cruise? Not This

Caitlin Flanagan, The Free Press

Data Collected by Jack Smith Appears To Go Beyond Scope

Catherine Herridge, X

Secret Service Deputy Director Out Amid Drone Controversy

Susan Crabtree, RCP

With Roadster Debut, Musk Shows 'Flying Cars Are Real'

Landon Mion, FOX Business

Sunday, October 18

France Reels After Largest Riots in Years

Porter & Le Stradic, New York Times

The Truth About the Anarchy in France

Gavin Mortimer, Spectator World

DSA Has a Plan To Push Hakeem Jeffries to the Left

Maya Davis, Wall Street Journal

Mamdani Gets Lesson From DSA About Leftist Loyalties

Michael Goodwin, NY Post

I Joined the DSA After They Accepted My 12 Proposals

Larry David, AIR MAIL

GOP Finally Won US' Most Hispanic County. Can They Keep It?

Daniel Allott, USAT

Iowa's Hinson on Top Voter Concerns, Pushback vs. Trump

Bret Baier, FOX News

Can Paxton Outrun Scandals To Win in Ruby-Red Texas?

J. Oliver Conroy, Guardian

Michigan Dems Urged To 'Leave It Blank' To Stop El-Sayed

Nolan Finley, Detroit News

The Real Reason MAGA Fears Rep. Omar

Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Deport Rep. Omar? Feds Are Closing In

Kelly Sadler, Washington Times

A Carton of Milk Lasts Longer Than Trump's Press Secretary

Lorraine Ali, LA Times

Why Democrat Activists Pretend To Be 'Journalists'

Hans Mahncke, The Federalist

Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Has Broken My Brain

Monica Hesse, Washington Post

Did Nathan Fielder Get Too Close to Elizabeth Holmes?

Kat Rosenfield, The Free Press

The Radicalization of Tucker Carlson

Matt Johnson, Quillette

Musk Takes Flight While the Left Takes Offense

Roger Kimball, American Greatness

TDIH - Oct 18th 2nd Term Job Approval: Trump 38.9 | Obama 42.0 | Bush 38.2