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Obama Won But Has No Mandate
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2012 CommentAs Ronald Reagan once famously said, "When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!"
The same holds true for me as far as the election of 2012 is concerned. I blew it, which is something most pundits will never concede. All along it has been my belief that the polls were somehow skewed, that the samples reflected an electorate that would be different from what showed up on November 6.
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No Matter a Romney or Obama Win, Election Day Is Worth Celebrating
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2012 CommentAs the man said, "It's all over but the shouting." For the first time in weeks, instead of chirping every hour, every half hour, every 10 minutes, my landline is silent. No one is coming to my door and my entryway is thankfully free of the daily cascade of postcards and mailers that have been deposited on my household since mid-October.
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I Want To Believe Mitt Romney Can Win
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2012 CommentI want to believe. I sincerely want to believe.
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Voter Supression Endangers Our Democracy
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2012 CommentThe crowds were getting frustrated, even angry. They were waiting in line for hours in Miami-Dade, wanting to vote, and even when they thought it was just a function of time, officials closed the facility for early voting. Only after shouts of "Let us vote! Let us vote!" did the mayor direct poll workers to reopen so people could cast an early ballot.
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Election Day Likely To Return Status Quo to Washington
Tweet Share on Facebook November 5, 2012 CommentIt's looking a lot like post-November 6 Washington will bear a striking resemblance to pre-November 6 Washington. I caught former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, who used to run the National Republican Congressional Committee, and former Texas Rep. Martin Frost, who used to head the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, at the Bipartisan Policy Center this morning, and that was more or less there consensus. Odds are that we're looking at a status quo election across the board.
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Romney, Mourdock, Koster, and the Sexist Attitudes Towards Women
Tweet Share on Facebook November 5, 2012 CommentIt's been more than two decades since Susan Faludi published Backlash, a book chronicling the social and legislative efforts to undo the advances women made during the second wave of the feminist movement in the '60s and '70s. It was the following year, 1992, which was the "Year of the Woman" in politics, with a record number of women being sent to Congress. And yet, the rhetoric in the current campaigns displays attitudes towards women that are even more backward and hostile than we were hearing 20 years ago.
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Mitt Romney's Personality Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook November 5, 2012 CommentLet me give you the lowdown, one overlooked reason why Republican Mitt Romney will lose the presidential race Tuesday: the man Mitt himself. He can't overcome his own character.
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Republicans Have a Structural Advantage in House
Tweet Share on Facebook November 5, 2012 CommentThe bad news for Democrats is that few analysts believe they will pick up anywhere close to the 25 House seats they would need to replace John Boehner with Nancy Pelosi in the speaker’s chair. The worse news is that for the balance of the decade they will face an uphill battle in their ongoing attempts to take back control of the chamber, according to a new report.
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Redistricting Will Bring More Gridlock, Polarization to the House
Tweet Share on Facebook November 5, 2012 CommentDo you love congressional gridlock? Do you thrill to the sound of the filibuster and to the death of compromise? Get excited for the 20-teens, then, because this decade’s post-redistricting Congresses figure to have fewer competitive seats (and thus fewer seats switching between parties) and more partisans than in previous decades, according to a study being released today by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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Romney, Obama, Ohio, and the Truth About the Auto Bailout
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2012 CommentIt increasingly looks as if the old saying "as Ohio goes, so goes the nation" will hold true in 2012.
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