Author: Steve M.

You may have seen that Barack Obama has opened up a big lead in swing states, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll, primarily because more than 60% of women under 50 now support Obama in those states. Among all women in...

A lot of liberals — see, for instance, Josh Marshall — think the appropriate response to a Supreme Court rejection of the individual mandate would be for progressives to pursue single-payer health care. Jonathan...

I really hope the health care law is upheld (though I don’t expect that to happen), and yet I’m sure that wouldn’t be the end of the fight by any means. I think, once they’re back in power, right-wingers...

Paul Krugman has a great column today about the American Legislative Exchange Council, otherwise known as ALEC: What is ALEC? Despite claims that it’s nonpartisan, it’s very much a movement-conservative organization,...

I thought things would go a lot better for Mitt Romney after an adviser promised an Etch-A-Sketch-ing of previous campaign positions. I expected this because Romney seems, at least on paper, to be the kind of guy mainstream...