Archive for the ‘Elections 2010 and 2012’ Category
November 12th, 2012
by Robert Frank
Karl Rove’s incredulous response when Fox News called Ohio for the president on Tuesday night has attracted considerable scrutiny. Most pundits saw it as a garden variety case of wishful thinking. If someone wants something to be true strongly enough, he can believe it even in the face of overwhelming objective evidence to the contrary. [...]
Posted: Monday, November 12th, 2012 at
5:08 pm
Tags: 2012 election, Karl Rove, Ohio
65 Comments »
November 6th, 2012
by Keith Humphreys
A friend from the Center for American Progress hipped me yesterday to a new, slimy vote suppression tactic: Telephoning Black voters and telling them they can vote by phone and therefore don’t need to go to the polls. If Abraham Lincoln came back to life and saw this, he’d never stop throwing up.
Posted: Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 at
5:48 am
10 Comments »
November 2nd, 2012
by Keith Humphreys
In endorsing Mitt Romney for President, David Frum writes: Obama is following a path explored by the British Labor governments of 1997-2010, when the majority of the net new jobs created in northern and western England, Scotland, and Wales were created in the public sector. That approach pushed Britain into fiscal crisis, when the recession [...]
Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 at
8:23 am
Tags: David Frum
17 Comments »
October 30th, 2012
by Kelly Kleiman
Category:
Barack Obama,
Campaign 2012,
Campaigns,
Election reform,
Elections 2010 and 2012,
Good news,
Music,
Race & related -isms,
Republican Party,
Struggle Between Good and Evil,
Vote Casting and Counting,
Vote fraud
Mark asked for an update on Iowa, but I’ve moved out of the field operation and into voter protection at national headquarters. We sit at telephones and computers and people call in from Nevada and North Carolina and Ohio–especially Ohio!–and Florida and Wisconsin and ask where they can vote early and whether they’re properly registered [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 at
9:17 pm
Tags: early voting, Election 2012, voter i.d., voter protection, voter suppression
14 Comments »
October 29th, 2012
by Michael O'Hare
Matt Stoller thinks this would be a good time to vote for a third-party candidate. His case, approximately, comes in two parts. The first is a sheet of charges against Obama for bad things he did and good things he didn’t do in his first term (some of which are a little naïve about what [...]
Posted: Monday, October 29th, 2012 at
12:57 am
73 Comments »
October 20th, 2012
by Kelly Kleiman
I got a ticket on Wednesday for changing lanes without signalling. (Yes, Chicago’s coffers are in need of a refill.) Because I’m no longer a motor club member, I no longer have a bond card, the thing you can give the cop instead of your license. So she took my license, and now I’m driving [...]
Posted: Saturday, October 20th, 2012 at
10:36 am
Tags: 2012 election, Driving While Black, Driving While Brown, DWB, election reform, photo i.d. laws, voter suppression
41 Comments »
July 8th, 2012
by Kelly Kleiman
Category:
Barack Obama,
Birth Control,
Campaign 2012,
Constitutional politics,
Elections 2010 and 2012,
Illinois,
Immigration,
Language and usage,
Lying in politics,
Republican Party,
Rhetoric and Framing,
Stimulus,
Teaching,
Vote Casting and Counting
When I was in the eighth grade I had Mr. Nadrowski for science, and one day he called Stephen Chilcote up to the front of the class and told him to push against the cinder-block wall until it fell over. As Chiclet obediently pushed and the rest of us watched, Mr. Nadrowski kept up a [...]
Posted: Sunday, July 8th, 2012 at
4:51 pm
Tags: economy, Obama, Republican, unemployment, work
4 Comments »
July 6th, 2012
by Kelly Kleiman
Category:
Barack Obama,
Campaign 2012,
Democratic Party,
Economics,
Elections 2010 and 2012,
Labor,
Lying in politics,
Politics and Leadership,
Republican Party,
Rhetoric and Framing,
Stimulus,
Unemployment,
Watching Conservatives
Though he attracted ridicule from the Right for saying it (and what could he say that wouldn’t attract ridicule from the Right?), the President is correct: the private sector is okay, creating jobs at a respectable clip. The weakness in job creation comes primarily from the public sector, where states and municipalities are firing teachers [...]
Posted: Friday, July 6th, 2012 at
9:32 am
6 Comments »
May 6th, 2012
by Keith Humphreys
Many onlookers have sifted through the UK election results and concluded that Labour’s only disappointing performance was in the London’s Mayor’s Race of Ken Livingstone vs. Boris Johnson. In fact, Boris’ victory over Ken was the proudest moment of the night for the British left. Livingstone ran an ugly campaign in which he denigrated Jews [...]
Posted: Sunday, May 6th, 2012 at
6:48 pm
19 Comments »
April 16th, 2012
by Keith Humphreys
Doug Mataconis is a smart political analyst, but I don’t think he makes a compelling case that it doesn’t much matter who wins the 2012 Presidential Election. He notes some areas of policy that he believes will be similar under Romney or Obama, and there is no doubt that in at least some cases he [...]
Posted: Monday, April 16th, 2012 at
12:18 am
Tags: 2012 election, doug mataconis
83 Comments »
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