Thomas Schaller
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"Thomas F. Schaller" is Professor of Political Science at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). A weekly political columnist for the Baltimore Sun, he has published commentaries in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Salon, The American Prospect and The Nation.

He is author of Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South (ISBN 074329016X). He is also the author of The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House (forthcoming, Yale University). From 2009 to 2010, Schaller was a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight.com.

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That's the problem here for Bob Ehrlich. He's got a very nice personal style. But pretty soon, when you have people around you tracking mud on their shoes, your carpet starts to get dirty.

He's gotten a very, very warm reaction from the left-liberal wing of the party.