Here’s the thing: Republicans were slaughtered in 2006. Reagan’s Republicans lost 8 Senate seats in 1986. LBJ’s Democrats lost 3 Senate seats (with a more than 8% negative vote swing) and lost 47 seats in the House. FDR’s Democrats lost 72 House seats and 7 Senate seats, in 1938 — which understates matters, given that […]
Month: November 2014
Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe is now available for preorder at Amazon. I know Amazon is evil. However, many independent bookstores now base their
Have any doubts about the brilliance of splitting the more left-wing vote into multiple parties as a way forward? Surely they’ve been erased now: Republican Gov. Paul LePage secured a second ter
A few thoughts, loosely tied together, on last night’s disaster. Obviously Democrats need to spend some time figuring out what the heck happened. In many ways, few fundamentals had changed since 2012. Gridlock dominates Washington. The economy is not really any worse for the 99%, but nor is it appreciably better. Yet people seem to […]
I contributed to and organized this report for Wikistrat: The East and South China Seas territorial disputes, including but not limited to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, the Spratlys and the Scarborough
Last spring, Jon Chait pointed out that if the Senate flipped to the GOP in November, this would have no significant short-term legislative consequences (with the House under GOP control no major legi
Tales from the new Gilded Age: Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz has sparked controversy by suggesting young people ought to consider unpaid work as a way to gain job experience. “When I bump into youths, they ask me, you know, ‘What am I supposed to do in a situation?’ I say, look, having something […]
I believe if you start reading here you’ll be able to see exactly what I’ve been dealing with tonight…but that’s not why I’m writing this. I’m writing this because
Shorter newly-reelected Gov. Lex Luthor to Florida citizens being offered Medicaid at little cost to the state: “Drop dead, literally.”
(I won’t say the 19th century, because pedants will insist that ended on December 31, 1900.) This is a challenge for statistically-inclined LGMers. As of today, there are still six people alive with verified birthdates prior to 1900. All are women. Four are Americans, the oldest is Japanese, and the youngest is Italian. Their ages: […]
The crack data analysts at LGM have, after lengthy consideration, declared that Jeff Sessions will be re-elected in Alabama. (The white supremacist clown is running unopposed, just as happens all th
Well, it’s Election Day in New York, and progressives here find ourselves in a rare quandary: either you vote for Andrew Cuomo, arch-conservaDem, and thereby keep the Working Families Party on t