Ezra Klein

By Ezra From Hotline’s quotes of the day: “Setting August primary dates is the most self-destructive thing a political establishment can do.” (pollster Thomas Riehle, e-mail) Markos calls this stupid, but I think he misunderstands Reihle’s point. Summer months are the hottest, with the highest gas prices, and the most violence (both at home and […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math I agree wholeheartedly with Mark Schmitt. Whatever you think of Joe Lieberman today, he served Connecticut well for most of his career. And if you’re one of those (like me) who would like to bring America back to the point where two reality-based parties found bipartisan compromise (though by […]

By Ezra To add to the post-mortems of the day, my guess is that the relationship between Joe Lieberman and the Democratic Party is about to get a whole lot more fraught. Previously, there was a real unwillingness on the part of the party mandarins to go against Joe who, even if he were to […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Charles Franklin of Political Arithmetik [sic] has some very nice graphs detailing the divisions in the Lamont Lieberman race. Essentially, Democrats in wealthy small towns turned out in large numbers and voted strongly for Lamont, while blue-collar towns did not turn out and went for Lieberman by modest margin. […]

(Posted by John.) Wall Street Journal: Some people put anti-semitic comments on Kos’ site, so obviously all bloggers are virulent, violent, anti-zionist anti-semites. Washington Post: Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs is just ducky. Okay, there’s a bit in the WaPo piece about how un-“subtle” LGF is, but reading it you’d never guess at the […]

… Money! (by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math) Let’s start a pool. When will Joe Lieberman’s independent bid officially fizzle? My guess was two weeks, but I was assuming a larger margin of victory. So I’ll say two and a half weeks; by August 25th, Lieberman will officially announce his withdrawl. Why am I so […]

By Ezra Thinking about the last post, I did some cursory searching to see what Lieberman said after Bush’s three percent victory. Here he is with Chris Wallace on November 14th, 2004: WALLACE: Now that you’ve had time to reflect, what do you think is the single biggest reason that John Kerry lost the election? […]

By Ezra Over at Tapped, my colleague and friend Alec Oveis has a pessimistic post on the Lieberman/Lamont primary: this seems like a terrible waste of influence. Kos, Stoller, and Hamsher could have gone to Connecticut to help Democrats defeat actual Republicans. Instead, they’re there helping one Democrat defeat another. I understand that Lieberman sometimes […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Does anyone know where I can find township-level (rather than county-level) results for tonight’s election in Connecticut? Also, where I can find a map demarcating townships? Google is pretty unhelpful on this front. Update: Here are the township results … now I just need a map … Update II: […]

How odd — all the comment trackers are showing up as 0, despite all the threads being full of comments. So, first, don’t be fooled — comments are working and happening. Beyond that though, anyone got bright ideas about what’s going on?