Elections Blog

I am really excited to announce a new group for those interested in seeing real change in America; change that is steeped in progressive traditions but mixed with a great twist of common sense and practicality:
Massachusetts for Feingold!
I know we have a TON of work to do with the upcoming gubernatorial campaign but we wanted [...]

[Read more →]

those of you who have been reading this blog for a few months know that i have supported the idea of governor mitt romney running for president in ‘08 from the beginning. i like the fact that he has reduced the size of government in massachusetts. his message also appeals to me. i [...]

[Read more →]

The Politcal Matrix is a mechanism to map and compare one’s political views in a two-dimensional space. Unlike the simple left/right (liberal/conservative) schema, the Political Matrix uses two axes, the right/left economic axis and the authoritarian/libertarian social axis. The two-dimensional map then places your result in …

[Read more →]

A good rule of thumb when hiring someone for your business is to exclude people who’ve pissed off your customers in the past.
If only Current TV had remembered that when they brought Al Gore aboard as Chairman.
According to SF Weekly, Gore’s cable channel, San Franciso-based Current TV, is having a hard time getting distribution on [...]

[Read more →]

A good rule of thumb when hiring someone for your business is to exclude people who’ve pissed off your customers in the past.
If only Current TV had remembered that when they brought Al Gore aboard as Chairman.
According to SF Weekly, Gore’s cable channel, San Franciso-based Current TV, is having a hard time getting distribution on [...]

[Read more →]

Happy President’s Day! In honor of the past-serving presidents, there was a proposal put forth in 2004 by Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) that would place images of the Presidents on the obverse side of the $1 coins with the image of the Statue of …

[Read more →]

The New York project (first discussed in this weblog entry) has made a lot of progress. The township maps and data are now complete for all counties for the general elections of 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. The precinct data is now complete for all counties outside of …

[Read more →]

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a longtime Hillary Clinton fan. As in a back-when-she-was-still-wearing-headbands fan. I have found her warm and utterly charming in person; more than that, she understands the challenges facing Democrats in a way that few others in the party do, and her ability to absorb policy nuances rivals her husband’s. This [...]

[Read more →]

Well the national blogger community is up in arms about Hackett’s exit from politics. MyDD has all sorts of posts lamenting the push from party insiders to get Hackett to step down. Matt Stoller has been saying that this is a loss for bloggers because it shows that while the efforts of bloggers [...]

[Read more →]

Polls and surveys are pop statistics for a variety of reasons, all of which have to do with the trustworthiness of the poll or survey, and the results.

Polls are likely to reflect skewed samples. A poll conducted, say, by the New York Times usually polls local residents — which skews the poll significantly toward the left. I [...]

[Read more →]

Yup, it’s a repost, just because I think we need to hear it again.

One game liberals play is to move the goalposts by changing what words mean. They do this all the time, but those I’m concerned with here are terms that identify where you fall on the political spectrum. With the Democrats shifting further [...]

[Read more →]

I just got an email from Russ’s Progressive Patriot’s Fun. I was very impressed because he is podcasting now! Between his posts on Kos and his podcasting Russ clearly shows he is not afraid to move into this century. I love this guy!
Download the podcast. (You don’t have to download, you [...]

[Read more →]

then I support Laura Roslin for President (if you don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, you’re missing out). She’s got a soft “I feel your pain” exterior and serious intestinal fortitude — enough that she told Captain Adama that it was clear he had to “take out” Admiral Cain, an ambitious and dangerous woman.

A president with the guts to [...]

[Read more →]

I have found in life that individuals who believe what they are doing is so right and so good and so important are also the individuals that have a high frequency level of rationalizing away unacceptable hehavior.
-William Greener, former Republican National Committee communications director
This is a Republican and Reaganite talking about Jack Abramoff back [...]

[Read more →]

Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that Hillary Clinton is too angry and too left-wing to be elected President.

“Whether it’s the comments about the plantation or the worst administration in history, Hillary Clinton seems to have a lot of anger.”
“There’s a lot of talk about a new [...]

[Read more →]

The Economist ($) gets a little Defamer-style snark when it considers Senator John Kerry …
WHERE do Democratic presidential candidates end up? The answer, to judge from recent headlines, is that they go to global gabfests in posh skiing resorts. Al Gore was at Sundance the other week with the likes of Robert Redford, Paris Hilton [...]

[Read more →]

The Economist ($) gets a little Defamer-style snark when it considers Senator John Kerry …
WHERE do Democratic presidential candidates end up? The answer, to judge from recent headlines, is that they go to global gabfests in posh skiing resorts. Al Gore was at Sundance the other week with the likes of Robert Redford, Paris Hilton [...]

[Read more →]

Idiots like this are the reason we’ll keep winning elections.

[Read more →]