Metropolitian Washington DC is the LAST place to go to find enthusiasm for Kerry (OK maybe we’ll probably find less enthusiasm for Kerry at a country club in Mississippi, but you get my drift). I’ve lived in the Baltimore and/or DC region my whole life and when it comes to DC Metro area and politics there are 4 things to keep in mind: 1. This town is socially liberal and likes to talk a LOT about social/cultural issues. Kerry...
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So Foleygate Might Turn Off “Religious Voters,” But What About Rich Voters?
The Foley scandal has hurt the GOP with voters, including culturally conservative “religious voters.” Of course I would like to see a depressed tutnout among Christian Coalition type voters, just like the GOP would love it if voters from union households stayed home in droves. But perhaps the fallout from the Foley scandal-and all the attention paid to church-going voters- is very misguided. In an essay entitled “Morals vs. Class” political scientist Phillip Klinkner did an interesting anaylsis of...
Chafee Win Not a Sign GOP turnout Machine is Pumped Up
Since the efforts made on behalf of Chafee by the GOP in Washington are well known, it has been suggested that this is evidence the GOP turnout operation is rip-ready to go. After all, if the GOP could get fired up to re-elect Lincoln Chafee, a non-right-winger if there ever was one in the GOP, then the Republicans should have no trouble turning out the vote in November, right? Not exactly, as Alan Abramowitz of Donkey Rising points out:...
Laura Ingraham – Today’s Worst Person in the World (A Tribute to Keith Olbermann)
I’ve always liked Keith Olbermann (and I’ll like him even more when when his producers stop making him talk about Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and Linsday Lohan). But I’ve been so impressed with Keith’s statements about Rumsfeld, Bush, and the phony Neville Chamberlin comparisons that in tribute to Keith, I now-belatedly-nominate right-wing bomb thrower Laura Ingraham and Washington husckets/pundits as today’s Worst Person’s in the World Back in June of 2005, Ingraham derided Kerry voters as “not regular people.”...
States Kerry Won that Hilary Could Lose
I intially was crafting this post to respond to the notion that Hillary might not run in 2008. My short answer is that “it could happen.” But anyway, a Democratic strategist on TV asked Pat Buchanan this morning what state Kerry won that Hillary would possibly lose. Buchanan mumbled something about McCain making it competitive everywhere. Given Buchanan’s (typical) incoherence I will now do the unthinkable and help Pat Buchanan out (oh my god!)… States Kerry won that Hillary...
Meet the Democrats’ New Friends: White Born-Again Christians
Say born-again Christian and the image that pops into the head of many pundits is the image of a poor or working-class white person who is deeply religious who at the same time appears to vote against his/her economic interest (i.e. votes Republican). Now comes a new book Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches that goes a long way toward debunking that theory. While the book is most about how the growth in income inequality is...
Some Political Observations Before Labor Day Kickoff
Recently, I’ve had a bunch of political notions going around in my head that have to get out. So rather than do a seperate post for each, I just decided to throw them out and see who agrees and disagrees and why. #1: Maybe the Dems will Win the House After All? Of the 50 most competitve House races according to Chuck Todd, 40 are currently held by Republicans. Only 3 of the top 25 most competitive are held...
In Defense of Bob Shrum
Folks in the blogosphere like to claim that they don’t fall for the same superficial analyses that pundits do. Yet in liberal and conservative blogospheres alike a lot of bloggers fall for the same story: Democrat losses can be blamed on that Rasputin of our time, Bob Shrum. Now columnist Mark Shields brings us a column that should give everybody a little perspective here. Now I’m not saying that Shrum didn’t make mistakes while helping to run Gore’s 2000...
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