by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Last week I mentioned some election shenanigans taking place in the NOLA City Council races. They didn’t work. Despite being outspent by a 5-to-1 margin, Shelley Stephenson Midura (D) ousted Jay Batt (R), the sole Republican on the council. Local pundits are calling it one of the biggest political […]
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Credit Hog
The Bill Clinton of the 2008 election is not, in fact, likely to share his surname. Hillary will probably run, to be sure. But the part Clinton played in 1992 — that of an attractive, technocratic, successful governor from a state normally hostile to his kind and boasting substantive accomplishments on issues his party rarely […]
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Unpopular and Unlikable
Shakes here… Last Monday, Karl Rove said that the president’s dwindling popularity was due to decreasing support of the Iraq war–not to a dislike of the president himself. “People like this president,” he asserted. “They’re just sour right now on the war.” Eh, not so much. It’s not just the way he’s doing his job. […]
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Crap Exposure Institute?
(Posted by John.) If you haven’t seen the ads by the Competitive Enteprise Institute yet, you really gotta. It’s exactly the kind of thing you’d expect the carbon lobby to put together, complete with little girl blowing on a flower. Of course, we should all remember that one of the first campaign promises that Bush […]
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But… I love Gore!
(Posted by John.) Neil raises some excellent points about Gore. My responses below the fold, but in short, I don’t see where Gore has weaknesses that the rest of the Democratic field won’t.
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My Al Gore Worries
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Lots of my friends are very excited about the possibility of a Gore 2008 candidacy. (I remember when the announcement hit Daily Kos that Gore had hired back one of his consultants from 2000. The Kossacks were so excited that Gore might be running again that they actually forgot to […]
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ECHOES OF WHAT…
ECHOES OF WHAT NOW? Via Matt Singer, this isn’t comforting: Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical �standard Islamic garments.� The law, which must still be approved by […]
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More Awesome John Derbyshire Quotes
Posted just a couple of hours ago: Now I shall get even further behind. I have to go to my son’s school to talk to the Dean about an “incident.” Apparently Danny’s been fighting. My immediate thought on that was: “Great! Has he been WINNING?” But of course that is “inappropriate” in the girlified public-school […]
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EASY THERE ECONOMY,…
EASY THERE ECONOMY, EASY… Paul Krugman is in fine form today, letting his inner economist roar forth for a quick lecture on the state of the economy, and why the stock market’s drop over the last few days is worrisome. “The rise in stock prices that began last fall,” he writes, “was essentially based on […]
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THE APPLE FALLS…
THE APPLE FALLS FAR FROM THE TREE. Sounds like Labour’s scion isn’t too into, well, laboring. Euan Blair, progeny of Tony, has been stateside for the past couple of weeks, interning for Jane Harman. He lasted two weeks. According to subscription-only Roll Call, “Sources contend that it�s because the 22-year-old lad was a wee bit […]