Rany Jazayerli: In the 2000 election, approximately 70% of Muslims in America voted for Bush; among non-African-American Muslims, the ratio was over 80%. Four years later, Bush’s share of the vote among Muslims was 4%. What happened? Well, a lot. […] Individually, each of these incidents was upsetting but tolerable. But they were part of […]
Month: November 2012
Looking through my 1976 copy of The Changing American Voter today, what should I find inside? This vintage 1976 clipping of a George Will column, warning us sternly about the dangers of allowing vot
This is the kind of thing that gets Frum excluded from the Republican gravy train, even if he throws a bone to the “voter fraud” crowd: In any other democracy, voters nationwide would have
NRO’s roundup of hacks is pretty entertaining. Perhaps my favorite is the guy who can’t tell the difference between Angus King and Joe Lieberman. Speaking of the NRO, what can you even say about this? ” A vote for Romney tomorrow is a vote for a restoration of the old Jacksonian — Andrew, that is […]
Everybody makes mistakes. Maybe you signed your best friend’s high school yearbook with Teddy R’s In the Arena speech, or bought the Knack’s first album on eight track, or married a
… I’ll share this Facebook post someone whose opinion I trust mightily wrote last night: Dear People Flipping Out, I’ve mentioned this before, but about a decade ago I was in a saber
303-235. Figure Obama’s PV around 50.5%. I expect him to have slightly over a 2% win in the PV. No clue nor care about his margin in MA. Obama loses IN, NE-2, NC, and possibly / probably FL from 2008. Democrats keep the Senate with 53 or 54. We all know the House is out […]
Here’s my map, serving as an entry into the contest. 303 EV for Obama. For the tiebreakers…on the Obama popular vote I’ll say 50.4%, Obama margin in MA I’ll say 19.7%.
I would to add to Scott and Erik’s commentary by reporting that Randy Barnett understands the basic voting incentives inherent to a structural two party system. That is all.
I always say that titles don’t matter, then I go on to demonstrate how they do, so I see no harm in doing so again: the definite articles in the title matter because this episode focuses on what it’s like to be “the” Stark (wolf) or “the” Lannister (lion) in the room. And the roles […]
The great composer has passed at the age of 103. Here’s a recording of his 1976 piece “A Symphony of Three Orchestras,” performed by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic.
I’m far too refined to write about something as petty and droll as a Presidential election, but I thought I’d share this utterly unrelated series of images I concocted for my Game of Thron