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Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect.

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Traveling Without Moving.

Jamelle BouieNov 04, 2010

Net neutrality didn't fare very well in Tuesday's elections:

Before Tuesday's midterm elections, there were 95 House and Senate candidates who pledged support for Net neutrality, a bill that would force Internet providers to not charge users more for certain kinds of Web content.

All of them lost -- and that could mean the contentious proposal may now be all but dead.

Few Wins for Wealthy Candidates.

Jamelle BouieNov 04, 2010

Today's Washington Post has an interesting piece on the failure of wealthy and self-funded candidates to win their elections on Tuesday:

The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that out of 58 candidates who used $500,000 or more of their money on federal races in 2010, fewer than one in five won. Eight of the top 10 self-funders this cycle lost, with only GOP Senate challenger Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ($8.2 million) and House candidate Scott Rigell of Virginia ($2.4 million) emerging victorious.

In (Brief) Defense of Earmarks.

Jamelle BouieNov 04, 2010

Damian Paletta points out clues Obama left in his press conference yesterday on where he might be able to compromise with the new Republican House majority. One of them had to do with congressional earmarks:

Earmarks: Mr. Obama said that this is one area where he could definitely find common ground with certain Republicans. “You know, I’m a strong believer that the earmarking process in Congress isn’t what the American people really want to see when it comes to making tough decisions about how taxpayer dollars are spent,” he said.

Partisan Voting.

Jamelle BouieNov 04, 2010

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Extremism and Its Limits.

Jamelle BouieNov 03, 2010

As someone pretty invested in an institutional view of politics, I should say that last night's elections show the limits of the approach. If economic performance were the sole predictor of political results, then Sharron Angle should have won the Nevada Senate race without a problem; at 14.4 percent, the state has the highest unemployment rate in the country, and Harry Reid -- with an approval rating in the low thirties -- was practically the He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named of Nevada politics.

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