I don’t have the highest hopes for Obama’s second term or for American politics in general over the next decade, but I think something has changed last fall, and that all the right-center nation nonsense is now on its way out. The general consensus is that Obama gave a more openly liberal speech than he …
Election 2012
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas…
I went to the OFA organizing meeting in DC today. We’re staying in Baltimore and the original plan was to just roam around among the crowd in DC for the inauguration tomorrow, but then we got tickets for the swearing-in and a ball and that all led to the OFA meeting. Here are some pictures: …
Sunday Evening Open Thread
. . A little somethng for the Obots, from the Los Angeles Times, via Taegan Goddard: Final Tally Shows Election Wasn’t Even Close… “In the weeks since the election, as states have completed their counts, Obama’s margin has grown steadily. From just over 2 percentage points, it now stands at nearly 4. Rather than worry …
Tuesday’s just as bad
I got very busy after the election and I haven’t had time to mock all the idiot pundits’ predictions yet. William Galston is, mercifully, mostly absent from the Sunday shows, but he’s some kind of a big wig at Brookings and writes all kinds of stupid “centrist” concern troller at TNR. Jon Chait does a …
His Whole Campaign Was a Lie
Politifact has deemed the following the lie of the year: It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign — that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood. Then …
Minority Majority
We’ve covered this before, but here’s a concise statement of the facts: House Democratic candidates won about 50.5 percent of the national vote in November, but took just 46 percent of the seats. In the last 40 years, only one other time — 1996 — did the party that won the majority of the votes …
Early Morning Open Thread: Same Drama, Different Day
Jamelle Bouie at the Washington Post explains that “No, Obama’s campaign wasn’t all that negative”: At this point, the conventional wisdom about President Obama’s reelection campaign has solidified: Obama ran a relentlessly negative campaign that said little about his agenda or presidency, and a whole lot about his opponent, Mitt Romney. Some critics have used …
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