In keeping LGM's long history of pointless competition community building, let me announce the 2012 LGM Electoral Vote Challenge. To enter, create a map here, copy the unique URL (through the "share" button), then paste into a comment. Victor will be determined on the assumption that...
The threat Nate Silver's mathematical models offer to traditional punditry, with its emphasis on the horse race and the personalities and the media ratings, is quite real. How do we.
Richard Hasen has an interesting story about how citations of Bush v. Gore's equal protection holding in the key decisions stopping vote suppression in Ohio: But the fight over Ohio’s.
As Sandy bears down on the East Coast, the fact that Romney thinks we can't afford disaster relief because they might threaten upper-class tax cuts or military spending so wasteful even the Pentagon doesn't want it seems relevant: Mitt Romney said America shouldn't be in the...
A song from Springsteen's best album seems especially appropriate today: How can this record be 40 years old? (Any other boomers feel like a decade got lost in there somewhere.
Shorter Kathleen Parker: "How dare Democrats focus on an increasing number of creepy Republican comments about rape, policies enacted and/or opposed by federal and state Republican legislatures, and the Republican.
Shorter Ross Douthat: "Barack Obama's pitch to women is so weirdly paternalistic. Anti-paternalism, of course, is using state coercion to force women to carry pregnancies to term (while assuming that women do not have the moral agency sufficient to be held legally accountable) while allowing employers...
My contempt for Tom Friedman is without limit. But he nails this column like Luther and a church door. At least until the point where he brings up Michael Bloomberg..
As I've said repeatedly through this election cycle, big national elections are not the primary vehicle for change in this country, nor should they be the singular focus of progressives..
I was sure that Mark Judge had the stupidest sports column of the year wrapped up for his Bryce Harper, Conservative Hero piece. But the Howler clearly wants to up the ante. And thus we have Matt Lewis arguing that conservatives should root for Detroit over...
This send-up of the Republican Party is so close to true, it's not funny. OK, it actually is funny. But scary.
To its credit, the occasional inexplicable book-plugging interview aside Salon no longer promotes Camille Paglia. Alas, it is now fairly regularly publishing Matt Stoller, who is sort of Paglia but.