Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect.

Recent Articles

Pro-"Limited Government" and Pro-Torture.

I'm at the Values Voter Summit, and while waiting for the next speaker I -- along with most of the attendees -- spent a few minutes watching a longer version of this Heritage Foundation video celebrating the Constitution:

Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain?

"Moderates? I don't need no stinkin' moderates*," says South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, chairman of the NRSC:

"They told me we couldn't win in Pennsylvania with a conservative - Pat Toomey is ahead. They said we couldn't win in Florida with a conservative - Marco Rubio is ahead. They said Rand Paul couldn't be competitive in Kentucky - he's ahead," DeMint said, reeling off the names of conservative Senate candidates he has endorsed. "Everything they said has been wrong. I'm counting on them to be wrong in Delaware."

There's More to Winning than Money.

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has spent immense sums in her bid to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California, but as Colorlines' Jamilah King reports, it hasn't done her much good in the polls:

A Quick Dose of Election Skepticism.

Daniel Larison, who has an excellent record of predicting election outcomes, isn't convinced that Republicans will win the House in November:

Based on CQPolitics’ rankings, available funding and recent polling, I count 25 Democratic House seats that will most likely change hands, 4 Republican House seats (including HI-01) that will become Democratic seats in November, and 16 genuine toss-ups. This doesn’t include FL-25, which is an intriguing and weird race that bears watching and might be an unexpected Democratic pick-up. Even if the Republicans win all of those toss-ups (which is not likely), they will not have enough net seats to take the majority.

"Raise taxes on the rich!" Say a Majority of Americans.

I don't know what the Associated Press has against counting higher numbers, but this is a very annoying headline:  "Nearly Half Oppose Tax Hikes for Rich." Here's how the article opens:

Almost half the country opposes tax increases for the richest Americans, according to a poll suggesting that congressional Democrats are taking some risk by backing President Barack Obama's plan to boost levies on the wealthy.

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