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jcbhan, I agree that the GOP strategy is to "corral electoral majorities based on strong support from white voters."  The…
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Agreed, and the demographic changes provide evidence for the hope. Roughly 4 million young people each year for the coming…
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mattt, I agree it's a great column, but I disagree with the implication that Herbert hasn't displayed as much fire…
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donnah, as far as Alito is concerned, I think the issue is that in his role as a Supreme Court…
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Don, I'm impressed with the turnouts in Madison too.  But...(you knew there was a "but" coming, didn't you?). But drawing…
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nonynony, I don't disagree with your point that winning the "reasonable adult" award from Washington pundits is no way to…
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Here's another possibility.  Obama & Co. decided they were going to give up that $4 billion anyway.  When Republicans offered…
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Tarheel Dem, it seems that at a minimum there should be some House procedure that allows for striking the comment…
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statusquobuster, thanks for this post.  It's great to see Sharp receiving some public recognition for the intellectual leadership he has…
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Hear, hear.  Now, maybe there are some Republican strategists who are trying to spin the storyline in their favor.  That's…
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Well done, Calvin.  In addition to the (very good) Guthrie biography, Klein was news editor for "The Real Paper", a…
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Also, who the big money from the CU groups will flow to in the "invisible primary" over the next nine…
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Booman, I get a chuckle out of this story (and that's not nothing), but I think I agree with TarheelDem…
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Beautiful post, Tarheel Dem.  Among the other veterans of the Albany Movement---Charles and Shirley Sherrod. (Andrew Breitbart still has no…
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Thanks, Booman.  Let's honor Bill Russell---also receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom today---too. Russell met Charlie Evers in the early…
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Re: the Obama-Clinton rivalry narrative.  The far more plausible narrative (in my view) is Clinton was a good team player…
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sherifffruitfly, based on the Times article, I'm going to side with TarheelDem on this one. It's not clear from the…
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Yep.  The Serbians used Sharp's essay too.  (Check out www.aeinstein.org for more about Sharp, his work, and translations of "From…
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Booman, Johnathan Bernstein says he can imagine three possibilities for House Republicans: 1 - "they believe, as a matter of…
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Tarheel Dem, another fine post---particularly about the discipline and organization of the Egyptian opposition. You say you want a revolution?…
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