A Predictable And Yet Historic Midterm
Election Night 2018 Ended Up Being Everything It Was Hyped Up To Be; But It Also Gave Us New Trends To Keep An Eye On
Auntie Grizelda’s Bandwagon
Are you as scared as I am?
Ordinary World 5 Nov 2018
Your Ordinary World for this Midterm Election eve Monday, with links to perspectives on politics and the voting to come.
Ordinary World for 15 Oct 18
Your Ordinary World links for 15 Oct 18, focusing on Prognostications, Previews, and Perspectives on Midterm Elections 2018, plus two from the Ordinary Times Archives on the 2010 and 2014 midterms.
Ballad Of The Magical Ballot Fairies
No easy solutions.
That Which Kris Kobach Is About To Wreak Upon Our Courts
Peer with Burt Likko into his Constitutional crystal ball, and you shall see a vision of a veritable hurricane of voter registration litigation, of a sort yet unseen in American legal history.
Electoral College Concentration
Everything you think you know is backwards.
Who’s The Spoiler, Now?
In which I explain that Bernie Sanders is right.
To No One’s Surprise
A squib of a post about this morning’s Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. Very brief: aggregate campaign donation limits unconstitutional.
The Right Path, Part I: “To look more hard working”
The second in a four part series that argues that the left is headed down the same path toward the wilderness that the right began two decades ago. Before we look at the left, however, we must first examine the actual path blazed by movement conservatives.
Voter Fraud Wheels A’ Spinning
I noted last summer how massive attempts to confront “voter fraud” were actually an example of the inherent corruption populist movements breed. Finding a way to make voters on both sides recognize this before 2016 is incredibly important, as I shall demonstrate below. But corruption by those in power needs to be fought with reason, patience…
The Incredible Shrinking Candidate!
Of all the many odd things that are happening in this election cycle, maybe the oddest is the current strategy of those looking to put Mitt Romney in the White House. I could be wrong, of course, but it certainly appears that there is a concerted effort by both GOP operatives and right-wing pundits to…
Some Thoughts On Wisconsin
1. Part of me, of course, is sad Scott Walker won. He’s a conservative and I’m not. All things considered, I prefer when conservatives lose elections. That said, the rest (most?) of me is glad he won. There are a lot of ways in which I’m a small-d democrat. I hate the filibuster and secret…
Characters And Records: Defining The President In 2012
Hey, wow, it’s Joe Klein and he’s being almost completely right about something:
Turnabout
Can someone explain this to me? Maybe start with general principles of fairness in election law, and then work your way up — or down — to this? Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes’ disaster of a 2010 campaign could turn into a four-year embarrassment for state Republicans. It’s been one blunder after another for…
Narrative Over Principle: The Perils of Believing Your Own Propaganda
I’ve not got a whole heck of a lot to add to this very good paragraph from Glenn Greenwald on the whole hubbub over the propriety of the Obama Administration’s entirely speculative suggestions (with the backing of Think Progress) that the Chamber of Commerce’s election ads are funded, at least in part, by foreign contributions:…
Keep It Simple Stupid
Daniel Larison makes a point that should be blindingly obvious were it not for the need for our talking heads to turn every single election into a referendum on the talking heads’ own framing of the President’s agenda: “What we have been seeing in all of the elections over the last year is a readiness…
The Problem with Blue-Doggism (Hint: It isn’t the Blue Dogs)
(cross-posted from my blog) If you look at the breakdown for the House’s vote on health care reform, you’ll see that of the 39 Democrats voting against reform, 24 were Blue Dogs. Nearly each of the Blue Dogs voting against reform came from districts that supported John McCain in 2008, and of those, fourteen were freshmen Democrats defending…
Why I Voted For Daggett
While I don’t think Corzine’s been as bad for New Jersey as most people seem to think (the Dems in the Assembly and Senate being a much different story), there was never any chance I was going to vote for him this year on divided government grounds. Since I’ve become something of a proud proponent…
Returning the House (and the President) to the People
In my recently concluded interview with Publius from ObsidianWings on the role of the administrative state, a central question was how citizens can better hold the executive and legislative branches accountable and prevent regulatory capture. It seems clear to me (although Publius may disagree) that these issues are closely related to the issue of growth…
Figuring Out Iran
I’ve been trying to catch up on what happened over the weekend in Iran, and is continuing to happen now. One thing that I’ve noticed is just how little we seem to know and how much everyone seems to think they know. I guess that puts me firmly with Freddie and Jason Kuznicki, at least…
