On Thursday, Sarah Palin was saying that politics called for thick skin. Then she got a little thin skinned herself: Gov. Sarah Palin, who returned to work at the governor’s office in Anchorage Friday, called her critics “jerks” and said it was “immature” and “cowardly” for McCain staff members to be making anonymous allegations about [...]
Just as quickly as Kathleen Parker made me appreciate her guts in standing up to her party, she snatches disdain back to the foreground. She’s right that the experience of white southerners is tied up, part and parcel, with the plight of Black people. But her story makes me want to puke. You see, the [...]
Yes, the campaign that never ended has still not ended: The U.S. Senate race in Minnesota is nowhere close to being decided, state officials said yesterday. The recount in that election will not be completed until mid-December, and even then, a candidate or voter can challenge the outcome, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said. Sen. [...]
Fernando Espuelas credits the Latino vote for killing Prop 8 in California. But there is more to it than that: 64% of Catholics voted for the measure 84% of those who attend religious service once per week (1/3 of the electorate) 70% of Black voters So where do we, who believe that the right to [...]
In their attempt to become exclusively a party of evangelical whites, we find out today that 69% of Republicans actually think Sarah Palin helped John McCain. Which I take as an indication of them wanting their party representatives to be more like her and less like him. Meanwhile, a majority of all voters thinks she [...]
The Washington Post didn’t include me in it’s panel, but I’m going to give an answer anyway. The Republican problem is that they have too small of a God. Their God of choice remains the God of white evangelical voters in the South. That’s fine with me – it’s their choice to make and I [...]
Who cares if Randy Scheunemann was fired? The election is over and everyone who worked for McCain’s campaign no longer has a job. So the guy wanted to position himself for the future. Maybe he was the only guy in that campaign that was dealing with reality. Or maybe the whole party. Look, this is [...]
Robert Samuelson is afraid for the wealthy. He needn’t be. But he should be more honest with his writing. Liberals have triumphed politically; soaking the rich has become more acceptable. But conservatives may have won the intellectual argument; making the rich poorer doesn’t make everyone else richer. Okay, first, Barack Obama has talked about rolling [...]
Now that the campaign is over, everyone is crowing about how Obama changed the electoral map. Except he didn’t really. As I point out elsewhere, Obama won largely by winning states that Clinton carried. Count everything John Kerry carried, then add Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado, Indiana, and Virginia. Clinton carried the first three at least [...]
New York goes to Obama. Also Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. McCain picks up Kansas, Wyoming, and North Dakota. Forgot RI -to Obama. Obama: 174 McCain: 61 Udall picks up a Senate seat for Dems in NM. Sphere: Related Content
