This is exactly right. Both the 4-year gap between elections and recent realignments mean that it's easy to come up with arguments of the "No Democrat has won the White House without states x, y and z in decades!" variety, but virtually none of them...
General
To push the points made by Matt further, [update: and to disagree with Ezra], I have to say that libertarians are right about regulations banning further fast food restaurants in.
In more ordinary times this would be a very big scandal indeed, but the Bush administration has made flagrant lawbreaking at the highest levels of government very much a dog.
The formerly significant gap in math SAT scores between men and women has essentially been erased.
A surprising development (to me at least) has been the mass media's recent rehabilitation of Tommie Smith and John Carlos. The same cultural institutions that almost universally excoriated the two.
Mr. Trend on Obama's proposed Latin America policy:Certainly, it’s tough at this stage to say exactly and concretely what kind of plans or policies he has for Latin America, because.
Here, for instance.
I agree with Sanchez and Patashnik that there's no necessary contradiction between Obama's nominal opposition to same-sex marriage and opposition to the California Restoration of Bigotry initiative. As I think.
Best wishes to Brian Beutler for a speedy recovery.
To add to a point made by a couple of commenters, there's nothing remotely new about Democrats giving money to religious groups for secular purposes.
Ari makes a good point:And furthermore, circling back to and expanding upon Wes Clark’s original point about experience, history is agnostic on whether great warriors make great presidents. In the.
I should just stop reading him and lump him with MoDo. But alas. I have not.In this installment, Saletan takes on pharmacists who refuse to dispense oral contraception (nevermind emergency.