I agree with Ezra that it would be unfortunate for the nomination to come down to superdelegates, and I would hope that there would be a norm among many superdelegates to support a clear winner. A couple of additional points:The election getting to the superdelegates may...
I'm sorry, but this...Household robots may help human carers look after the growing number of elderly Norwegians in years to come, enabling them to live longer and more comfortably in.
This is good...The Democratic National Committee is pressuring Michigan and Florida to hold Democratic presidential caucuses so the delegates they've lost for holding January primaries can be seated at the.
I'll probably have more to say tomorrow about this WSJ article by historian Edward Larson, but one passage strikes me mildly amusing for various reasons:[A] historian at Yale, the president's alma mater . . . told me that Mr. Bush regularly reads history and has invited...
Over at Slate, the XX factor team is dissecting the wardrobe choices of the candidates' wives last night (what color tie was Bill Clinton wearing? Anyone? Bueller?). They've honed in.
Jack Balkin points us to this article in the WSJ defending John McCain on the question of judicial appointments. Part of the op-ed consists of the usual vacuous buzzwords like.
Edward Geary Lansdale was born 100 years ago today.Ed Lansdale was the sort of fellow for whom the term "blowback" was coined. During his long career with the Office of Strategic Services and its successor, the CIA, Lansdale is best known for his role as an...
Brad Plumer reports that Karl Rove (and I sort of admire the spare elegance of Rove serving as an election analyst for Fox News; I mean, why not just skip.
For my part, I'm pretty committed to protecting the voting rights of "marshmallow shaped, middle-aged" people. And knowing more Ron Paul voters than Hillary Clinton voters is not something that.
I decided to watch the returns with the second-best commentariat in the blogosphere, which meant that I couldn't hear the speeches, etc. I think Yglesias gets the bottom line about right. 10 days ago, an Obama supporter would certainly take a result that left him alive,...
Shorter Verbatim Hugh Hewitt: "McCain can't be considered a frontrunner by any conventional standard." Sure, keep telling yourself that and you'll...oh, actually, even he couldn't actually convince himself of that.
Somehow, we've all forgotten that Alan Keyes is still in the race, and his supporters are characteristically humble in their assessment of the campaign's stakes:When I talk to people of.