Salon (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Three experts tell Salon that the party may expand its Senate majority by half a dozen seats, but they also think at least one Democratic incumbent is vulnerable.
Sunlight Foundation (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Over the weekend, Tim Harford at Slate asked an interesting question: “How much do Republican-leaning corporations benefit from Republican political success'” His answer? “A lot!” Harford points to studies conducted by financial economists about the success of corporations with clear Republican and Democratic leanings. (The researchers defined a company’s party preference by whether the [...]
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
John McCain claims "I've supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the [Katrina] tragedy." This is a...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
TPM Reader CG does some Joe-ology ... Lieberman is in a very delicate political position. His value to Republicans, and his popularity with them, is that he is a Democrat who criticizes Democrats mercilessly. If he were to become a...
PowerBlog! (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Crunch the numbers, run the polls, assemble the focus groups and the outcome is still the same.I hate to be so negative but no matter how you cut it the Democrats will win in November. Even if the name plate on the oval office reads "John McCain" the Democrats win. That's because John McCain is an unofficial Democrat.To be blunt conservatives are screwed. Sen. John McCain was very close to leaving...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
DID REID AND MCCONNELL CUT A LIEBERMAN DEAL'....Here are two things I can't explain -- except, maybe, in terms of each other. First: Even if Joe Lieberman decides to officially become a Republican, this doesn't give the GOP control of...
ScrappleFace (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
(2008-05-14) — An ebullient Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters today that the Republican loss of a Mississippi Congressional seat Tuesday bodes well for his presidential hopes in November. “Travis Childers, who beat the Republican in Mississippi, ran as a conservative Democrat and will now join the liberal Democrat coalition in the House,” said [...]
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Jon Perr writes, Four days after Arianna Huffington first reported it, John McCain's 2000 VoteGate has become the election issue du jour. The New York Times , the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have all run stories confirming Huffington's account that in 2000 a still steaming McCain did not vote for George W. Bush , the man who savaged him and his family during the Republican primaries....
Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
The Republican Party is about to nominate a man whose past loyalty to the GOP, Conservatism, and the current Republican Administration obviously leaves a great deal to be desired. Back in 2001, John McCain denied having any reasons for, or intentions of, leaving the Republican Party.” Last year, his spokesman told Power Line that there [...]
Gut Rumbles (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Originally published July 27, 2003 I have this theory that movies such as The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure and...
TwoConservatives (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Sometimes the Democrats have been stuck with candidates who, while somewhat liberal, too often appealed to the centrists in the party, much to the chagrin of the far-left "progressives" who worked so hard to buy the party in 2004. But this year they have a candidate the left can truly be proud of. Barack Obama is no centrist. In fact, he is the poster child for the far left. This is a compendium of...
Pardon My English: Conservative New (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
The President of the United States and his second-in-command (his Vice-President, not his wife) had better be careful not to show their faces in the towns of Brattleboro or Marlboro, Vermont. Both have passed non-binding resolutions instructing their police to arrest the pair for "crimes against our Constitution."
Sunlight Foundation (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Riffing off of the estimable Nisha Thompson's Local Sunlight feature, there are a couple of Sunlight related stories happening across our northern border and across the pond in Europe. First, our friends in Europe are taking after our Congress and considering passing sweeping lobbying disclosure for the EU for the very first time: The European Commission has proposed new rules that could require European...
Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
A Tale from the BlancaSphere It's official. The party of Lincoln is dead. The party of Reagan has been on life support for some time and is not expected to recover. Over the past two years I have watched my beloved party become a cesspool of impropriety. If it wasn't mens room toe tapping, it was underage page picking up. If it wasn't bribery scandals, it was lobbyist scandals. It it wasn't drunken...
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
One of the issues that John McCain could have been—even should have been—put to the fire on in the Republican primary is the contention that, in 2000/2001, John McCain was in active negotiations with the Democratic caucus about whether or not he might drop his Republican party affiliation and become an Independent, caucusing with the [...]
