When Being “Normal” is a Political Asset – or is it?

"I am normal": #LabourLeadership candidate @OwenSmith_MP says being ordinary is his strength https://t.co/rO2EhEv31g — Sky News (@SkyNews) July 18, 2016 (Interestingly, he doesn’t embrace being ‘normal’ in his Twitter feed,

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Senator John McCain on Iraqi Normal Life

McCain gave a couple normal one-liners on his march to fail becoming 44th POTUS.

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‘My hands are normal hands’ said @realDonaldTrump

I’m sorry. I don’t intend for this blog to become a running stream of The Donald’s ‘normal’ references, but these are simply golden. I mean who says that? “My hands

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Rightwing Populism is the New Normal (Don’t Get Trumped!)

Uploaded not even two months ago, this The Guardian video about the rise of Donald Trump in America as being consistent with recent political trends in Europe, opens with this

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Antonin Scalia was a Normal Political Jerk

Courts aren’t supposed to be political, but file this one under politics because in the following quote by the recently deceased Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia, he makes mention of

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the Primary Schedule is Normal Process

It’s not all GOP chaos alone these days. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz gave this gem of a few lines to CNN’s Jake Tapper recently, somehow equating the

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the Normal Reason Pols Adhere to Talking Points

David Frum on why pols in general - and Marco Rubio specifically - "adhere to talking points"

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Berning Your Enthusiasm is Not/Normal

Watch Larry David play Bernie Sanders as a not/normal human being.

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#FeelTheBern isn’t a Normal Signifier of Cool

Another pol-normal reference this morning, this time about “political rockstar” Senator Bernie Sanders who according to Ezra Koenig, lead singer for Vampire Weekend, “does not have the normal signifiers of

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This Ain’t Your Father’s Normal GOP: Veterans are NOT War Heros

In this quick, few-second clip – part of a longer, l337 segment on last night’s Rachel Maddow Show – Rachel Maddow paraphrases Donald J. Trump for his July 18, 2015

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Chaos is Normal for the GOP

Molly Ball has a great piece for The Atlantic that dissects some of the currents flooding the GOP platform just two weeks before the Iowa caucus. And per usual these

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