Obit here in the NYT. Not much to add to this. I was too young to vote in that disaster (my first was the 1986 mid-terms), but I still remember it reasonably well. With the advantage of time, she was probably under-qualified for the VP...
Dave Brockington
This is an area that I used to know a lot about earlier in my academic existence, but has nothing to do with the paper I'm trying to finish today.
Not even freedom-hating anti-choice wingnuts could fail to see the irony in this, unless they don't understand history. Oh. Hang on. Poll at The Stranger here (update: correct link now).
Or, at least, "tens of thousands" of middle-class ivory tower academics across the United Kingdom. Judging by the comments to this BBC article about the one-day walkout, it's not a universally popular position. For what it's worth, I didn't support the strike action, but would...
(aka Ramblings in the Name of a Coherent Blog Post) As I've argued here before, the policy proposals of the recently ascendant right, in both the United Kingdom and the.
When I first saw this, I briefly thought that I had wandered into the Onion by mistake. Kansas state rep Virgil Peck (R, of course) suggested that the "immigration problem".
The latest YouGov poll has Labour on an 11 point lead. Don't get too excited, for the past couple of weeks this daily poll has had Labour around six to seven points up, so it's likely an outlier. However, it's still not the best news...
This can't end well.
This is an easy question for Represenative Peter King, current Chair of the Homeland Security Committee and defender of the Irish Republican Army, to answer: “I understand why people who.
In addition to declaring the month of March Irish American Heritage Month (because we didn't have enough positive attention?He needed to solidify the Irish Catholic vote?), Obama is to serve his own White House brewed beer on the 17th: President Obama has officially declared March...
The UK is scheduled to hold a referendum on May 5 to determine whether or not to adopt the Alternative Vote for Parliamentary elections. This is the first UK-wide referendum.
Nate Silver writes an interesting piece about a minor debate surrounding the utility (or lack thereof) of favorable ratings for (largely potential in the case of 2012) presidential candidates this.