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- As Monica noted earlier, this year's uncertainty doesn't give us a lot to talk about on an otherwise busy Election Day. Indeed, John Sides quantifies the incumbent re-election rate this year at 76 percent. But I suppose we could kill some time making meaningless comparisons to the 2008 presidential primary field.
- The open liberal disenchantment with Barack Obama has no analogue in the post-Bush conservative movement. Indeed, for some, securing a glorious place in history for W. has become an all-consuming passion. But what do you expect from a movement that chooses to remember a mythologized version of Regan the Great?
- Andrew Gelman shares an unsolicited email inviting him to the upcoming forum, "Is the Cyber Mob a Threat to Freedom?" Man, can I relate. The only reason I write LR is to stand with my fellow elites against the tyranny of the masses, whose threat to freedom easily overshadows the mightiest armies and most totalitarian regimes of yore.
- Remainders: Helen Thomas revisionism; in case you missed it, the Gulf disaster has been great news for Bobby Jindal; the eternal mystery of why taxing the rich isn't more popular; the RNC is still abusing the census; Democrats skip the town halls this summer; the pieces keep falling into place for the great unknown Obama administration scandal; the insufferable pop sociology of David Brooks shows no signs of stopping; and the oil spill will not kick Obama's ass.
--Mori Dinauer
