Salena Zito is a political analyst, reporter and editorial page columnist. She has also reported on Pennsylvania politics for The Weekly Standard. A board member of the Center for Media & Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Salena Zito honed her skills working on the campaigns of George H.W. Bush, Senator Rick Santorum, Bush2000, Bush-Cheney 2004 served on the senate staff of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. Salena Zito has interviewed one on one Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director General Hayden, Homeland Security Director Chertoff, Attorney General Gonzales and First Lady Laura Bush. Zito spends a third of her time on the road interviewing legislators as well as current policy makers. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:00 GMT Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Author's Note: Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of next Tuesday's NY 23 special election early Saturday morning. She did not endorse either of her two opponents, Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/11/01/mood_sours_toward_both_parties dd98e8a0-8fe9-4d7c-941b-d8f27d3458e1 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:00 GMT A poll of opinion polls shows that Americans are undergoing rapidly changing attitudes. RealClearPolitics, a national polling aggregator, shows that Americans are becoming less and less thrilled about the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/25/polling_polls_americans_independent_and_irate 202f1d4b-4a76-4fe7-bd23-3c43617d1d81 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Remember the city mouse and the country mouse who exchanged visits? In the end, the gap between the cousins' worlds left both comfortable with their own choices and baffled by the other's. That' http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/18/the_gap_between_main_street_and_the_elite 0dfc1245-b699-4612-93a0-1d99ce4fd89a Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The "Overseas Contingency Program" - more commonly known as the "war on terror" - is back at the center of the political world, thanks to the uncertain prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. As Presi http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/11/in_the_shadow_of_the_war_on_terror 118c9d85-63bb-41d6-ae7d-9a1531b9435c Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT If a flood of House seats now held by Democrats switches to Republicans in 2010, it will not be because of a seismic change in the country's ideology. Many House sophomores and freshmen (those who won in 2006... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/04/change_gops_2010_ally a837d99a-a668-4422-8f23-e9633712e3fe Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Green is the new black - for chic environmentalists and eco-intellectuals, that is. Yet the "green" movement also has the potential, in the form of a climate and energy bill, of being even more divisive than... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/09/27/green_problems_give_democrats_the_blues 3c1f56f6-1246-40ea-aaff-164541099430 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Two political dangers have emerged in recent months for Democrats, Republicans, and the media that covers both. Those are the dismissal of protests by all three, and the crude overuse of the race card. It's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/09/20/political_class_ignoring_at_their_peril 68f54b50-58a1-4eb3-a673-bdc5b887b271 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Politicians will tell you they'd rather have you hate them than distrust them because hate is an emotion that can be tweaked, while trust is an investment in character - a bond that, once broken, can never fully http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/09/14/in_obama_we_dont_trust 723034fd-64d2-4211-b80d-7063a40d426c Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT The best observation that any politico can offer on the three-way U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania between Republican Pat Toomey and two Democrats, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak and incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, is that it's c http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/09/06/pennsylvania_2010_its_complicated 2fc2f761-ecde-4dbd-a071-f4d529a2cbff Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT The Afghan war belongs to President Obama. He may not have broken it but by his rhetoric, his actions and his commitments, he now owns it. The question for the president, politically and strategically, is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/08/30/obamas_afghan_test 979b9958-8f75-4bcd-8f63-1b0e790ada51 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:14:43 GMT Former President Bill Clinton quipped to a couple thousand liberal bloggers in Pittsburgh last week that the great thing about being a former president is that you can say whatever you want. The terrible thing is, nob http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/08/23/being_bill_clinton a35a64ff-0553-4344-91a1-5510c17aee35 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT The Republican Party became Humpty Dumpy in August 2006 and, by the 2008 election, all the king's horses and men couldn't put the cracked party together again. The question now is whether it's time for http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/08/16/gop_should_show_patience_as_they_rebuild 6f2eb67a-f5c9-4504-8cf8-5f5e5bf39223 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Deep-Democrat-blue New Jersey is on a direct course to go Republican-red this fall, and it does not look like even Obama-esque hope and change can stop that. To the middle-right (the only way New Jerse http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/08/09/corzine_seeing_red_in_new_jersey 6d589a16-b6c1-45a0-a608-f29ab3c2c360 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT WINCHESTER, Va. - Virginia will be the center of political attention this fall, thanks to the first statewide election in a battleground state since the 2008 presidential election. "Here we go again," said... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/08/02/fall_eyes_on_virginia ec8c78c3-646b-4432-8cc7-d72dc5464b9d Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:00:41 GMT NEW WATERFORD, Ohio - If Ohio is the nation's political weather vane (and you can make a good case that it is), then a two-election trend toward Democrats may be over. "The problems for Ohio are all created in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/07/26/as_ohio_goes,_so_goes_the_nation e3056778-a24b-4af0-a268-5669fe738d94 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT