Gaius Publius writing at Americablog comments on a recent New York Times article on this election cycle’s monstrous cost. I suggest reading the NYT article then
Category: Campaigns
The right is succeeding in moving the goalposts on abortion
So much about the “Todd Akin affair” has focused on the Missouri congressman’s unfathomable and demeaning attitude towards women as well as his faulty
Obama: Calm, cool, and hated for it
Back on August 8, 2012, I published a piece on Occasional Planet in which I pondered the intense hatred that President Barack Obama inspires
Robo Ashcrofts want me to vote for Todd Akin
Missouri’s Todd Akin is trotting out former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and his wife, Janet, to robo call for him as he desperately
Perverse best-case scenario: Romney wins popular vote, Obama wins Electoral College
Barring feasible foul play by Republicans, Barack Obama will probably win the Electoral College in 2012, which means that he will serve for another
GOTV for Claire McCaskill: Scenes from the [strangely numbered] streets of suburbia
I’m knocking on doors for Claire McCaskill’s GOTV effort, in suburban St. Louis [an impressively well-organized and energetic effort, I must say], and here
Who are these undecided voters?
There are Democrats who feel that Barack Obama is not progressive enough. There are Republicans or Tea Party members who feel that Mitt Romney
Romney endorses Obama for a 2nd term
“We’re gonna have to have a president who can work across the aisle,” Romney said in his closing statement in the final presidential debate
Russia’s our “biggest foe?” Then why did Romney invest there?
During these final weeks of the presidential campaign Mitt Romney seems to be doubling down on Russia as his pick for America’s “number one
Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up?
The corporate media may have declared Mitt Romney the winner of the first 2012 presidential debate, but that is only because Romney has changed