First of all, let’s not shed any tears over the fall of Kevin McCarthy. Though the Republican majority leader is well-liked by his colleagues, he seems to have even less of a vision for where the GOP should go than the famously visionless John Boehner.Source: The Real Reason for the Chaos in the House...
After a terrible, no-good, very bad year, the GOP establishment ends with a whimper.Source: The Party’s Over...
To national GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, it must seem like he has the reverse Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to straw. It’s often the case that party leaders want to rerun the last election instead of focusing on the one they’ve got.Source: Republicans need a new plan to beat Donald Trump...
Kevin McCarthy will not be the speaker of the House.Source: Kevin McCarthy’s implosion signals a full-blown Republican revolution...
Political common wisdom claims a campaign does not start until it runs its first television commercial.Source: Digital media disrupts US money politics...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters are beginning to learn about Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio. What they're not learning, however, is who is paying to promote his candidacy.Source: Rubio's presidential bid boosted by secret-money commercials...
To promote democracy around the world, the United States spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually in developing nations. But when it comes to the mechanics of democracy itself in the United States, some don’t even want to pony up $9.6 million.Source: The coming voting machine crisis...
“Look,” wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, “my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should [have] let the [S]outh go. We really do seem to have 2 totally different mindsets.Source: Impeach the IRS director...
California Governor Jerry Brown has until the end of Sunday, October 11, to decide whether to sign or veto two election law bills. So far he hasn’t acted on either one. AB 477 puts the Green Party’s internal rules into the election code.Source: Governor Jerry Brown Still Hasn’t Acted on Two Interesting Election Law Bills; Must Decide by October 11...
The argument is interesting, but it’s ultimately quite speculative. Even if one accepts their demographic math, their assertion only works if the 2016 election is extremely close (which is far from a given), and even then there are good reasons to think that these four electoral votes won’t be the sole factor that makes the difference.Uniform Swing – If 2016...
