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    So why don't political leaders with a poor white background make this point?  They would have more credibility with poor…
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    • We're talking two House districts, tops. That's statistical noise in a 435-member House. Otherwise this will make no detectable difference…
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    • There might have been no internet but there were Wallace voters -- and they're an eternal type, not a one-shot…
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    • But the surface response needs to be coordinated and run by federal disaster response officials who know what they are…
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    • You and all your dope-smoking friends in their clapped-out VW Westphalia campers, yes. It was like having the entire foliage…
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    • 1988 I spent the summer on Dead Tour, starting in Bloomington, Minnesota and ending in Oxford Speedway in Maine. I…
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    • Why ever not? The difference between a Justice Kagan and a Justice Duncan Kennedy or Elizabeth Warren, e.g. pales in…
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    • It's an amendment, and it's germane. So you can attempt, at least, to add it. IIRC, the Senate doesn't even…
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    • In Europe, you fight the election, then form the coalition. Here you form the coalition, then fight the election. It's…
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    • I don't give a tinker's damn about Ms. Kagan's private life That's because you don't approach politics primarily as a…
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    • She also plays poker and has been known to smoke cigars. Abe Fortas' wife also used to smoke cigars. You…
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    • They're not meant to be implemented. They're meant to be passed, to dominate discussion, and to deliver elections. I expect…
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    • Even in Nebraska, bank-kicking has to be more popular than bank-blowjobs Everything R is more popular than anything D. Bank-blowjobs…
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    • Is there a large enough "Oooh! Oooh! Condescend to me! That's what I really like" bloc to swing an election?
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    • .but why would he adopt the "have a beer with me" line of thinking? Because it pays. It paid, and…
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    • "I think the answer is more of a populist touch". No it isn't. There's no populism to draw on, just…
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    • Wouldn't you rather win an election than have a livable planet? Wouldn't you rather sit in the ruins of a…
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    • ....the Republicans are going to benefit in the short-term because they care much more passionately about the Supreme Court than…
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    • Prediction: Obama, against his better judgment, chooses a candidate primarily as an exercise in identity politics in an attempt to…
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    • If the Dems continue to deliver accomplishments, that enthusiasm gap may disappear all together or even flip in the Democrats'…
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