Month: November 2014

Visit Nate Silver’s Fivethirtyeight.com or the New York Times data blog “The Upshot” in the lead up to the midterm elections, and one was greeted with constantly updated graphics handicapping Republican chances for regaining the Senate to a decimal point. On the whole, political pundits from all over the country have been nothing short of … Read more

Democratic alarmist and media analysts have somberly concluded that a Republican Senate “will have a lasting and important impact on the federal judiciary for decades to come.” 90 federal judicial appointments are expected to arise in the next two years—that’s a full one out of every ten federal judges on the bench right now—and these … Read more

Mass incarceration: it’s the classic cause of the liberal left. Said liberals might tell you, as Michelle Alexander does, that it is an entirely new form of racial caste system – in her words, “a new Jim Crow.” They might describe the disparate sentencing rates along racial lines – with one in six black men … Read more

On paper, Elise Stefanik doesn’t look like many other House Republicans. The Harvard alumna is 30 years old, a former White House staffer, and a woman. But the best evidence available suggests she’ll be joining the House GOP caucus in January; A Sienna College poll released on October 27 showed Ms. Stefanik leading her Democratic … Read more

When you read the next round of trend pieces about how there are no more moderates in Congress or how there are no more districts with representatives of the opposite party leaning, look for Collin Peterson’s name in the lede. Tonight, I’ll be watching for an upset in Minnesota’s 7th District, where longtime Democratic Rep. Collin … Read more

Visit Nate Silver’s Fivethirtyeight.com or the New York Times data blog “The Upshot” in the lead up to the midterm elections, and one was greeted with constantly updated graphics handicapping Republican chances for regaining the Senate to a decimal point. On the whole, political pundits from all over the country have been nothing short of … Read more

“Vote for a pro-choice, pro-marriage equality, pro-background checks candidate who is the right choice for the Illinois’s 10th district,” the ad begins. Then the surprise: “Bob Dold, the right Republican for us.”  What? In Illinois 10th district, an area traditionally composed of center-right middle- and upper-middle class suburbs, the ad makes sense.  Represented for five … Read more

Florida: the state of sunshine, oranges, Stand Your Ground laws, and Disney World. Florida’s gubernatorial election will be held this Nov 4, and if the debate between the Democrat and Republican candidates was any indication of what is to come, the biggest losers during this campaign cycle will simply be the citizens of Florida. On … Read more

Florida: the state of sunshine, oranges, Stand Your Ground laws, and Disney World. Florida’s gubernatorial election will be held this Nov 4, and if the debate between the Democrat and Republican candidates was any indication of what is to come, the biggest losers during this campaign cycle will simply be the citizens of Florida. On … Read more