Kate Sheppard

I’ve been thinking about I’ve been thinking about Tom‘s post yesterday on whether voter turnout might actually decline in November. I have to say I’m fairly skeptical that this would occur. While it may be true that there’s a considerable lack of enthusiasm about John McCain among certain segments of the right, there will surely […]

Something that’s often left out in all this talk about the failure of New York City’s congestion pricing plan is the fact that this sort of plan has already been successfully implemented in London, as mayor Ken Livingstone has attested: It cut the amount of traffic entering central London by 20%. Each day in 2006, […]

Grover Norquist is endorsing Condoleezza Rice for McCain‘s VP spot. Apparently she spoke at a breakfast meeting of his Americans for Tax Reform a few weeks ago, her first appearance before the group, and came across as mighty presidential. “If her goal was to convince everyone she would be a good president and, therefore, a […]

I was traveling yesterday, and didn’t have a chance to note my despair at the demise of the New York City congestion pricing plan. Charles Komanoff has an excellent post on Gristmill about why the plan was the “smartest urban-transportation idea since the subway,” and why it failed, that’s worth checking out. Had it won […]

I I noted this a few months ago, but I still maintain that when you’re severely behind in fundraising, touting that as evidence of your superiority as a candidate just doesn’t make sense. But the Clinton campaign continues to do so in an email address to supporters today: With 14 days to go until the […]

The The Obama campaign has been notably quiet about the sacking of Mark Penn and related trade affairs. But that doesn’t mean they won’t put forward others to chastise them for it. This afternoon, the campaign hosted a conference call with Indiana State Rep. Ryan Dvorak and Teamsters president James Hoffa to talk smack on […]

The History News Network recently conducted a non-scientific poll of 109 professional historians and found that 61 percent rate Bush presidency as the worst yet. Thirty-five percent of those surveyed rated him in the bottom ten, and only four respondents put him in the top two-thirds. A whopping 98.2 percent assessed his presidency as a […]

UNITE HERE was one of the many labor unions righteously outraged about the UNITE HERE was one of the many labor unions righteously outraged about the Mark Penn/Colombia affair, and understandably so. President Bruce Raynor sent out this statement late on Friday chastising Penn and the campaign for what these conflicting interests. Of course Penn’s […]

For a campaign that sends out so many long emails (and so many emails, period), the announcement from For a campaign that sends out so many long emails (and so many emails, period), the announcement from Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams that Mark Penn is departing from his role as top strategist was notably brief: […]

According to Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Nobel Prize committee was way off base last year. It’s John McCain that should be heralded as the world’s leader on climate change, not Al Gore: “He’s not going to run away from President Bush but at the end of the day, John McCain has earned a reputation, and […]