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By Neil the Ethical Werewolf The key statistic from the post below is a striking one indeed. Shakespeare’s Sister points out that in 2004, the national median income was $35,100, while the median income of the electorate was $55,300. In other words, poor people are voting at a much lower rate than rich people. Then […]

Shakes here… Ezra’s post, The Politics of Mobilization, and Nicholas’ post, The Mostly Unfuzzy Math of William Galston & Elaine Kamarck, each refer to studies that make recommendations to the Democrats based on voter data. What strikes me in both cases is that the pictures drawn are incomplete. The current electorate is not the same […]

Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math William Galston and Elaine Kamarck, authors of the seminal work “The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency“, a post-game analysis of the 1988 election that heavily influenced the DLC’s (and therefore Bill Clinton’s) electoral strategy, have updated their ideas for the modern electoral environment in “The Politics […]

By Pepper of the Daily Pepper, who has OD’d on Miers and needs a palate cleanser If it’s one thing I’ve noticed about the New York Times, it’s that once a problem begins to hit the suburbs, it’s all of a sudden a VERY BIG DEAL. Class stratification hits the ‘burbs? Write up a whole […]

RedState may believe in the independence of the Court, but they’re sure as hell not above a little obsequious persuasion…

On the subject of Miers’ qualifications, which I haven’t written much about, I think folks are conflating two very separate things: the qualifications a Supreme Court Justice needs to have and the qualifications a Justice ought to have. On the first, Miers is probably just fine — a longtime lawyer, literate, smart enough to understand […]

Yesterday, the President said: Some observers also claim that America would be better off by cutting our losses and leaving Iraq now. This is a dangerous illusion, refuted with a simple question: Would the United States and other free nations be more safe, or less safe, with Zarqawi and bin Laden in control of Iraq, […]

This bit from William Galston and Elaine Kamarck’s Third Way report strikes me as fairly important: Jimmy Carter captured only 72 percent of the liberal vote in 1976 and won the presidency. John Kerry captured 85 percent of the liberal vote and lost. Carter captured 77 percent of registered Democrats and won; Kerry captured 89 […]