First during Britain's EU referendum campaign, and then as Donald Trump ran away with the Republican primaries, commentators opined from the metropolis while reporters ventured to the parishes to anthropologise the white working class.
During the Republican primaries, some commentators said that Mr. Romney's Mormon faith would drive away evangelicals, many of whom consider his church a heretical cult.
After the primary, conservative commentator Erick Erickson came out in favor of Kingston's candidacy, as did Atlanta Tea Party Co-Chairwoman Julianne Thompson.
After Donald Trump's disastrous performance in the Wisconsin primary this week, political commentators are starting to talk seriously or perhaps wishfully about the possibility that the frontrunner might not actually winning the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
Mark Green said that while Air America looked forward to giving its fans a chance to rub shoulders with hosts and commentators, the primary motive was to make money.
In the 1992 New Hampshire Republican primary, Patrick J. Buchanan, the conservative commentator, won 40percentt of the vote, offering a hint of voters' unhappiness with the White House.
Gabriella Hoffman, a conservative commentator, Virginia primary voter and author of the article "Ted Cruz is the Best Candidate for Millennials", said, "I see in [Cruz] someone who can confidently communicate conservatism and someone who can appeal to others beyond conservatism.
The Syrian diplomat and poet Nizār Qabbānī managed in a single career to become the Arab world's primary love poet and a commentator on political controversies: Ah, my love!
Patrick J. Buchanan, the conservative commentator whose Republican primary challenge and divisive convention speech weakened the first President Bush's campaign for re-election in 1992, is publishing a book excoriating the second President Bush over the invasion of Iraq, just in time to grab a share of the limelight at another Republican convention.
