Can we get in the Wayback Machine for a minute? All the way to a month ago. In early November, in the days before the midterm election, Ebola was the greatest threat this nation ever faced and who was to blame for that but the...
2014 elections
In order to save Mary Landrieu's job, which will not work, some Senate Democrats are pushing for a vote to pass the Keystone XL Pipeline. Landrieu is throwing a Hail.
It's pretty difficult to argue that racists are not a huge part of the Republican coalition. Every since the moment Obama won the presidency, white racial resentment has been flowing.
The Denver Post wins the day for idiocy. It decided to change its endorsement for the Colorado senate race from Mark Udall to Cory Gardner. Part of its reasoning: The newspaper explained that it believed Republicans would "temper their policies" with control of the Senate....
Chait has a good profile of Tom Cotton, quite possibly the next senator from Arkansas. This despite his vote against the farm bill that many Arkansas citizens rely upon: Yet.
Your next batch of House Republicans--even crazier and more racist than this edition!
Interesting article on how Democrats are now using cultural issues to hammer Republicans in much the same way Republicans did effectively until very recently against Democrats. In Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado, important swing states, Democratic senators contending with a sour climate for their party...
Bob Moser has a very interesting essay on what he sees as the poor political decisions made by southern Democratic senatorial candidates in 2014. Essentially, he sees Kay Hagan, Michelle.
Even though I'm a bit addled from waking each morning around 0400 to do the daily radio spots this week, I'm not addled enough to dramatically shift my viewpoint on.
Still aren't good. As though all the conditions faced by Democrats heading into November 2014 aren't cause for enough pessimism, including an electorate composition that favors Republicans given reduced turnout in mid-term elections, the marginal gains for Republicans derived from gerrymandering, and the penalty the...
I was somewhat surprised that a majority of the handful of comments responding to my post debunking the "six year itch" were far more interested in the general prospects for.
Not too soon, the campaign season will commence again, with a focus on the Congressional elections of 2014. In the smattering of stories that I've read in the past two.