Rachel Hoff is a Republican policy analyst and commentator who has focused on national security, foreign policy, and electoral politics. She contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2009 and 2014 covering GOP strategy, feminist foreign policy concerns, and election analysis. She has been active in center-right policy circles, including work with the Republican National Committee platform committee.
Exit polls from last week’s midterm elections challenged the conventional “it’s the economy, stupid” wisdom, as the number of voters who said the economy was the most important issue fell to just four in 10. The dark horse issue of the 2014 election was foreign policy.
A Politico/InsiderAdvantage poll released yesterday showed remarkably high support for Scott Brown, especially among two groups that many would assume to be sure bets for Martha Coakley: women and youth.
Only one year after Barack Obama captured the hearts, minds, and votes of an entire generation of young Americans, those same voters proved that they are not a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. Looking at election data from this week's statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia,…
For two months now, the Obama administration has been weighing the heavy decision to send more U.S. troops to help fight and win the war in Afghanistan. Sending American men and women into battle is one of the most difficult and important choices a commander-in-chief can ever make, so it is right…
The Afghan women who risked their lives to go to the polls this summer are not afraid of much. But one thing we need not doubt is their terror at the notion that America might abandon Afghanistan and return them to the hands of the Taliban. Eviction from school and work at the least, rape and…