Tag: 2008 elections
According to new numbers released by Survey USA today, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama win in match-ups against McCain. Obama wins by more (and wins 4 more states than Clinton); the numbers sugg
Kevin Drum objects to my argument about experience, claiming that Obama’s experience will be a disadvantage against McCain but Clinton’s would not. I’m not entirely convinced. ItR
I never, ever, ever again want to get locked in nine hour comment thread battle over the Florida and Michigan delegates; it is bad for my soul, leads to acne, prevents me from getting tenure, etc. I g
Prediction 1: If Obama wins the nomination and loses to McCain, Clinton supporters will angrily claim vindication, saying that it was obvious all along that Obama couldn’t win. Prediction 2: If
Hair Club For Growth President Pat Toomey suggests some running mates for McCain; the first few seem plausible. However, I would strongly urge McCain to go with the boundless charisma and highly popul
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 the middleman) threw cold water on the idea o
It seems to me that we have ourselves a knife fight. It also seems to me that this is a wonderful thing; Iowa and New Hampshire shouldn’t have the right to determine our Presidential nominees. &
Via Sam Boyd, I bring you this Kirchick Komedy Klassic: Earlier this week, I speculated in a bloggingheads with Jon Keller, political reporter for the Boston CBS affiliate and author of The Bluest Sta
- ChatGPT and me
- Images from American History, Part 23
- I am beginning to think that Dobbs has not turned Republicans into social democrats
- This took a dark turn
- Why Republicans Don’t Like Democracy
- Public School Ventilation Act
- Waging War With Gold at the War Room of the War College
- Right-Wing Evangelicalism, US and Brazil
- The Little DeSantises of North Carolina
- Frank Zappa, Linda Ronstadt, and Remington Electric Razor