The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: SLICE-AND-DICE FOLLIES. Matt takes on the hearty election-analysis tic of identifying some demographic sub-group (angry white men! NASCAR dads! mortgage moms!) and touting it as the key to the political future of the country. The approach isn’t just annoying and wrong, he says — it can be a tool used in […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: IRAN HAWKS REORGANIZE. Say hello to the Iran Enterprise Institute. Laura Rozen reports. –The Editors

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: POOR INITIATIVE. Ben “Badler” Adler notes one dog that didn’t bark on Tuesday — the supposed political potency and spill-off effects of state anti-gay marriage initiatives across the country. –The Editors

VETERANS’ DAY. Though Laura weighs in below, Tapped is more or less down today in honor of the holiday. But for your TAP Online reading pleasure: Rick Perlstein offers an urgent reminder to Democrats not to let victory lull them into forgetting the dirty tricks operation that the GOP perpetrated on Tuesday — and will […]

A FEW GOOD INTERNS. The Prospect is looking for interns for Winter/Spring 2007. Any Tapped readers out there who are interested in (or who know someone who might be interested in) spending a semester in our DC office, helping out with the magazine and the site, should definitely apply. It’s a fun time, and a […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE. Ezra debunks the goofy “conservatism won” spin. Eric Alterman reminds us of SecDef pick Robert Gates‘s Iran-Contra past. And Spencer bids Rummy farewell — and warns Iraq-hawk incompetence dodgers that they’ve just lost their favorite whipping boy. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: MICRO MACHINES. Have the Dems managed to gain ground this year in the field of microtargeting mobilization, or is the GOP as dominant as ever? Joseph Ax reports. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: MUFFLED SHOT. Sudhir Muralidhar finds that the controversy-courting Bush assassination movie Death of a President isn’t quite worthy of the outrage it’s sparked. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ALLEN’S OPTIONS. In a Prospect exclusive, Garance Franke-Ruta reports on new information concerning Xybernaut, the beleaguered tech company on whose board George Allen served in the late nineties. On October 20, 2000 — just 18 days before former Virginia Governor George Allen was elected to the U.S. Senate — Xybernaut, […]

RISK ASSESSMENT: HACKER RESPONDS. Don’t miss Jacob Hacker‘s response to Schmitt, Klein, and Yglesias. –The Editors