Monthly Archives: November 2012

As Thomas Friedman’s latest brainwave reminds us, ‘four more years of the same’ isn’t just a fading echo from the Romney campaign; these days it’s also a handy approach to writing for the New York Times. While most of the … Continue reading →

The theories about links to Benghazi are out there and they offer the simplest explanation (behind, you know, taking the resignation at face value). But, if Petraeus wanted to distance himself from a Democratic administration ahead of a 2016 White … Continue reading →

No one wants to say it, but the gap in the election was not gender, but race. The proof? According to exit polls being cited by CNN, white women threw their support behind Romney more heavily than did men of … Continue reading →

What was that? Incredibly, Americans voted for the status qou. Republicans can cheer a ratification of the 2010 midterm. Senate Democrats can celebrate two more seats. And Obama can work to make sense of being the first President reelected by … Continue reading →

Like a few weeks back, I’d say that Romney nets fewer than 300 electoral votes, but enough that Ohio will prove superfluous to him becoming the 45th President of the United States. Specifically, 289-249, with Wisconsin, Ohio, New Hampshire, Colorado, … Continue reading →

The left has started singing the voter suppression tune a bit earlier than I expected. As noted by myself and Robert Stacy McCain, there is an incongruity between this and claims of an electoral firewall. Any partisan benefit from depressing … Continue reading →

Talk about burying the lede. In the Washington Post, Dan Balz writes upwards of twenty-five paragraphs on reading the tea leaves in a close race. He breaks them down to three categories: where candidates spend their time, how states have … Continue reading →