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Patricia Murphy is a nationally syndicated political columnist for Roll Call. She previously covered national politics for the Daily Beast and wrote a column for Garden & Gun magazine, covering Southern culture.
She has also worked as Capitol Hill bureau chief for AOLs’ Politics Daily, Executive Editor of The American Interest, and founder & editor of Citizen Jane Politics, an online platform for young women to follow and engage in politics. Prior to working in journalism, Patricia worked on Capitol Hill for for three U.S. senators.
She graduated from Vanderbilt University and holds a master’s degree with honors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has appeared regularly as a political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and C-SPAN, and speaks frequently on media and politics, including at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, the Harvard Business School, and the National Press Club.
OPINION - Meet "socialist," the hardest-working word in politics in 2019. The single word has helped upstart Democrats attract young and social-curious potential voters, given the paddles of life to desperate-for-a-cause conservatives, and led President Donald Trump to an early and effective way to frame the re-election battle he wants to have with Democrats.
OPINION - There have been so many glowing profiles of Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic Senate hopeful in Texas, that there is a running joke among journalists about the ingredients for a perfect O'Rourke piece. The short version goes something like this: He looks like a Kennedy! He's got tons of cash!
OPINION - On June 18, 1965, when copies of Roll Call sold for 10 cents apiece, the front page featured an item on the Congressional Secretaries Picnic, including a photo of a skeptical red-headed toddler eyeballing a nearby pal's lunch plate.
It is a hunt with no weapons, a sport with no players. A pursuit equal parts patience, precision, and raw power. And we are waiting for it to start in a patch of quiet quail woods along the Georgia coast.
For African-American women in Georgia, Election Day was more than political; it was personal. One of their own, Stacey Abrams, had a chance to become the governor of the Deep South state for the first time in history. The race, against GOP Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was still too close to call by 1 a.m.
ANNISTON, Alabama-B.L. Shirley is a Republican woman from a Republican county who always- always -votes Republican. And yet, on a windy, grey morning last weekend, the Talladega, Alabama, retiree found herself in, of all places, a Democrat's campaign office, wondering just what she could do to defeat the GOP candidate running for a seat in the U.S.