The Wash-Rinse-Repeat of Election Punditry
Our democracy is literally at stake. So why are political strategists wasting their time heeding the words of the same-old pundits and trying to woo the unwinnable voters?
Andrea Grimes
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Andrea Grimes is a feminist journalist, editor, and podcaster living in Austin, Texas. Her commentaries, investigations, and analyses have appeared in the New York Times, the Texas Observer, Rewire News, Cosmopolitan, Bitch, Ms. and Jezebel, among many other publications. You can find her cussing on Twitter as @AndreaGrimes, or drinking a Bloody Mary on a sunny patio, or sometimes both.
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