Matt Yglesias asks a good question: My friends in the choice movement keep assuring me that the pro-choice position is overwhelmingly popular, and that it's overwhelmingly important that the Senate Democrats not permit an anti-Roe majority on the Supreme Court. Those propositions can't both be correct, though,...
From Kos, we learn that the trend here in Washington of the Democrats picking up seats in the state houses is happening around the country. It's happy news, to be sure,.
The Poor Man is--for good reason--one of my favorite blogs, so I was hoping that this post was just a Swiftian joke, but apparently it's not. Lindsay Beyerstein does a good job.
Many have pointed to this Paul Freedman article at Slate, which makes the case that anti-gay initiatives may not have had the electoral impact many of us assumed. He's got some good points, although I'm not entirely convinced we should write off the possibility of this impact,...
Matthew Yglesias is right to suggest that the modern Christian Right, despite some intimations to the contrary, does have some notion of social justice, and it's not all bad. Certainly the.
Kevin Drum has a great post mocking the silly contention that the Democrats are doomed because they can't win in the south, while one never hears that the Republicans are doomed.
My dear friend Brian Mahoney has sent me a remarkably eloquent e-mail; I reprint in its entirety. I've been in a state of shock for the last couple days, reading blogs, news, and emails from friends. I took Wednesday off work and went for a long drive....
Erik at Alterdestiny has some good observations about elections in Latin America: Uruguay has just joined a number of nations who have elected left-leaning regimes in the past few years. Venezuela.
As always, Paul Krugman says it better than anyone: President Bush isn't a conservative. He's a radical - the leader of a coalition that deeply dislikes America as it is. Part.
Jesse Taylor, as you probably know, is under conservative fire for his indisputably correct observation that mobilizing homophobia was a decisive factor in the presidential elections because of the way the electoral map played out. To first emphasize Jesse's point, with respect to the Jon Henke "not everyone...
The more I think about it, the more I think this is my movie of the year so far (although I still haven't seen Vera Drake), and I'm not sure if.
This map is making the rounds. I can certainly see the appeal. More seriously, but in a similar spirit, I've seen a few people not in comment threads elsewhere, as well.