Looking at the historical data, a few observations: Challengers generally do well with the public in the first debate -- Kerry 53-37, Perot 74 Clinton 30 George H.W. Bush 16, Dukakis 38-29, Mondale 54-35. The exception that proves the rule is Dole, who was perceived...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Matt claims that the Catfood Commission "is more left-wing than you know." Among the people who would be surprised by this claim is...Matt Yglesias circa 2010, who (correctly) noted that.
I can pretty much outsource to Kuttner, Sargent and Chait. Romney was like George W. Bush in the first Gore debate, a world-class bullshitter who combined lying and dissembling about.
While how it works out in a given year doesn't prove anything, today is exactly what I was thinking when I argued in favor of a second wildcard with the wildcard teams forced to a one-game playoff: if you're going to segment into divisions and...
I said earlier that I didn't know what anyone could find objectionable about the comments in the BOMBSHELL Obama video released last night. Well, having now read someone at The.
The Daily Race-Baiter tries to come up with the "Whitey Tape" that didn't exist in 2008, steps on a rake. It's impossible for a rational person to understand why anything.
Amazingly, the Atlantic has managed to find someone to lavishly praise the massive critical and commercial fiasco Don't Back Down From Spouting Union-Busting Nonsense. Did they just hire Rex Reed or some other critic with horrible taste that could explain this extraordinarily unpersuasive (and unusually...
Shorter syndicated columnist William F. George: The only possible explanation for why a majority of the American electorate would vote for a candidate whose policies they substantially prefer is because.
Jerry Brown and Christine Quinn. Andrew Cuomo gets most of the attention in the "bad New York Democrats" sweepstakes, but my understanding from people who deal with New York City.
After a few technical hiccups, we couldn't be happier with our minor slight re-design (thanks again to vs.) Unfortunately, during the transition the post I wrote on March 31st predicting that the As and Orioles would be 2 of the 4 5 AL playoff teams...
I'm so old I remember when the Red Sox were considered to be one of the best organizations in baseball. Alas, I lack the hermeneutical chops that would be necessary.
Wow, Paul Ryan has even lost the newspaper that inexplicably signs Robert Samuelson's paychecks. The declining reputation of the zombie-eyed granny starver is shocking to me; normally, once somebody gets.