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Ten Post Round-Up: Big News In Digestible Bits (Thursday, October 30th)

I don’t have anything really snarky to say, today.  I’m plotting my post for tomorrow (specially Halloween edition) and so all the really cool stuff I could say about today’s post pretty much ended up on the cutting room floor.  So, take today’s Ten Post Round-Up with a grain of salt and your morning cuppa [...]

Get Real

Cross Posted From Article of Faith:
NYT: Even Gains for Democrats May Feel Like Failure:
Adam Nagourney writes this morning: “In most midterm elections, an out-of-power party picking up, say, 14 seats in the House and five seats in the Senate could call it a pretty good night. But for Democrats in 2006, that showing would mean [...]

The Importance of the Non-Major Metropolitan North: How Important is Cultural Liberalism?

In cities (counties with over 500,000 people) Kerry won 61% of the vote, better than any Democrat since 1964 except for Clinton 1996 and Gore 2000. His 40% of the rural vote was 3% better than Gore and was better than all Dems since 1976 except 1988 Dukakis and 1996 Clinton (both 44%). [...]