While there's a very long time left between now and November and while on the local and congressional level, Republicans may survive, or even take the Senate while retaining the House, the Republican Party and its leaders are doing everything in their power to destroy...
2012 elections
22 Democratic Senators are calling for a marriage equality plank in this year's Democratic Party platform. Can you imagine such a thing even 4 years ago? Or 8? 20 years.
Justin Logan of Cato and I discuss foreign policy and the 2012 election in the latest installment of Foreign Entanglements:
My major goal in election-related blogging is to provide some coverage of state-level politics, which I pay a good deal of attention to. This is particularly true in states that I have lived (OR, NM, TX, TN, OH, RI) and states that I have spent...
If Obama wins reelection, he's going to have a long list of holiday cards* to send out. Sure, he'll have all sorts of fundraisers to thank. He'll even give the.
First, I've been absent (and sporadic when not wholly absent) for the past three months or so. The dominant issue in my life (aside from my 5/4 teaching load) has.
In one of the best blog posts of the year, Charles Pierce just destroys Jon Meachem's analysis of Newt Gingrich. In part, beginning with quoting Meachem: But by the September-October debates, Newt had grown impressive "by standing back and offering a Wise Man's view of...
The Republicans have decided to back the payroll tax extension, fearful of being painted as anti-middle class in the coming elections. As Kos noted in a tweet, there's no way.
So I saw this political ad yesterday while eating my morning bagel: This is produced by Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, connecting Elizabeth Warren to the "extreme left protests" and "violence".
To reiterate, barring a major economic turnaround pretty much any Republican nominee will have a very good chance to win. Although not everyone interprets the data that way: And then there's the nomination process. It could be that in all the elections incorporated into current...
Silver has a new article up critiquing an over-reliance on economic models in predicting Presidential elections. While this is in general good work, I'm starting to note a trend in.
Silver offers a rigorous exploration of the central point made in the NYT article I linked for the post I wrote yesterday. He approaches the question on the relationship between.