Browsing the “POLITICS” Category
Published on December 6th, 2012
Ask Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist and columnist for Time Magazine: A debate will now rage inside the GOP between the purists, who will as always call for more purity, and the pragmatists, who will demand modernization. The … Read More →
Published on December 4th, 2012
From RedState.com, about Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, the West Virginia congresswoman who was re-elected earlier to a seventh term and who plans to run for a Senate seat in 2014: Here we have a winnable candidate … Read More →
Published on November 29th, 2012
Dorian Davis, a libertarian writer, HHR contributor and journalism professor has a new piece up at WNYC’s It’s A Free Country blog new piece up at WNYC’s It’s A Free Country blog arguing that Chris Christie … Read More →
Published on November 28th, 2012
Even in this enlightened age it can be tough to be a nerd. Conservative pundits derided the dweeby Nate Silver in the weeks leading up to the election for his insistence on reading poll numbers instead … Read More →
Published on November 26th, 2012
This from Lydia DePillis a staff writer at The New Republic: After a week of election postmortems, one thing is clear: Mitt Romney’s failure to understand America’s changing demographics led to his undoing. But there was … Read More →
Published on November 21st, 2012
It seems counterintuitive that a voter, given opportunity to choose between a truth and a falsehood, would calculatingly select a falsehood. Nonetheless, every presidential election, that’s exactly what 99 percent of voters do. Thus, it would … Read More →
Published on November 19th, 2012
With the elections now over, I am stunned with the postmortem coming from the Republican Party and the lack of substantive analysis from its operatives. Those who follow my writings know that I have written extensively … Read More →
Published on November 16th, 2012
This from the New York Times’ Ross Douthat: THE Republican Party has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. It just failed to unseat a president presiding over one of the … Read More →
Published on November 16th, 2012
LAS VEGAS — New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, the GOP’s most prominent Latina, chastised Mitt Romney’s rhetoric Thursday and called on the Republican Party to play ball on immigration reform. “We have to start electing people … Read More →
Published on November 13th, 2012
Dorian Davis, a libertarian writer and journalism professor has a new piece up at WNYC’s It’s A Free Country blog arguing that to move on, the GOP has to ditch Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan. … Read More →