People who think that Obama will win aren't taking the inevitable last-minute release of the Whitey Tape into account.
Author: Scott Lemieux
In response to the inequities and inefficiencies of American voting on this election day, I would like to reiterate that the decentralized, frequently underfunded American voting is crazy.
In pondering what music would fit the election results, Carrie Brownstein goes for the relatively optimistic and celebratory. A good instinct, and one I think I'll share when it's called..
I don't think that Palin deserves much credit for her purported support for assistance to special needs children, for the reasons Mark Schmitt has memorably discussed. Harold Pollack, however, argues that Palin isn't even rising to the level of Miss America conservatism; her policies actually...
Perhaps the most puzzling phenomenon of the Democratic primary campaign was the frequently heard argument that the candidate of Mark Penn would be the one most likely to advance a.
Since we haven't heard much about the courts in this election, I suppose it's worth noting that given the likely retirements of Ginsburg (75 year-old cancer survivor), Souter (69, hates.
Just for fun, I guess it's time to make some election calls:President: Obama 326, McCain 212 (Obama gets all Kerry states + NM, CO, NV, OH, VA, IA, NC)Senate: Dems +7House Dems +31Regardless of the outcome, Mickey Kaus will claim that voters really prefer divided...
Nice to see that the GOP is abandoning most of its efforts to retain/take House seats in New York State. Even better, they wasted a lot of money here before.
Sarah Wildman explains.It should also be noted that Colorado's ridiculous Prop 48 -- which would give constitutional rights to a zygote -- is favored by John McCain and is also.
I believe that this crap was also a centerpiece of McCain's SNL appearance yesterday. Of course, the idea that McCain had to run a dishonest campaign centered around inane trivia because Obama wouldn't agree to the precise debate schedule he requested has always been risible...
To echo what Rob (and Henry) have said, it's worth drawing a distinction here. Reasonable people can argue about "outing" in the sense of, say, a newspaper publishing reliable information.
R.I.P.