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Jay Cost
Jay Cost has been a top political analyst for nearly a decade, and is now a staff writer for The Weekly Standard. A former writer for the political website RealClearPolitics, Cost is also the author of “Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic.”