...itical hacks we have here in Washington.” While the statement was met with usual rumblings in the blogs and on the networks, it caused almost no uproar in the national media. The boldness of the recently chosen leading Senate Democrat was surprising given his moderate record, but appropriate given the current political climate. Reid normally exhibits outspoken moderation, which is emblematic of the larger uncertainty within the Democratic Party a...
...the nature of this publication begs a look primarily at political polls. For candidates, the objective of polling is simple. “It helps them figure out how to win,” said Mark Mellman, President and CEO of The Mellman Group, a Democratic polling firm. For elected officials, the goals of polling are hardly different. “First, it helps them figure out how to win reelection,” said Mellman. “And second, it helps them figure out how to present their vis...
...legal experience. Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani epitomized this characterization with their bold, argumentative styles and extensive political experience—Giuliani was a U.S. Attorney in New York for several years, and Koch was a Democratic Congressman. The election of businessman Michael Bloomberg to the highest office in New York City connotes a major shift in the leadership preferences of New Yorkers, and over the past nine months, he certainly ha...
Western media coverage of the conflict in Kenya has been enormous, especially for a story coming out of Africa. The reportage has been a staple of the Economist and the New York Times since the beginning of the year, and even the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has run the AP’s dispatches from Nairobi. Yet for all its breadth, the coverage has been dangerously lacking in depth. The media’s principal crime has been to recycle plot lines from past Afric...
...ood moral character.” Assuming the role of advocates, they plan to support the passage of this legislation on the national level, and believe the DREAM Act could serve as a gateway to comprehensive immigration reform. College Democrats The Columbia University College Democrats plan to spend this year lobbying for and supporting their policy interests. They participated along with the College Republicans in the health care debate on October 7 in...
From Wikimedia Commons Bad job numbers, the president’s not so “fine” gaffe, a failed recall attempt in Wisconsin, a plethora of White House scandals – and to top it all off, Mitt Romney, the guy who two months ago elicited no more than a deferential shrug from the average Republican, out-fundraised the Obama campaign by over $16 million in May. Altogether, the news is daunting to Democrats and harmful to the president’s re-election effor...
...ividuals buy insurance. The National Review’s Ponnuru may be correct that the iconic conservative magazine never formally endorsed the mandate idea and that parts of the party never did either. However, 19 Republicans and two Democrats are on the record co-sponsoring the Senate’s 1993 Health Equity and Access Reform Today (HEART) Act (SB 1770), the principal conservative answer to Hillarycare. Section F of that bill contained a “universal coverag...
...k Obama to lead the free world. The past few weeks have been no exception, as recent primary losses have led Mitt Romney to finagle every delegate he can. Santorum, meanwhile, hasn’t been making friends in Puerto Rico. On the Democratic front, President Obama visited the oil fields of New Mexico on Wednesday to show that domestic oil is alive and kicking. Mitt’s Math-Run Campaign: Everyone remembers the Shepard Fairey portrait of Obama with the...
So a 63-year-old WASPy Native American and a college age nudist/porn star run for the U.S. Senate. It sounds like the setup to a cocktail party joke. But it’s not. Enter Republican Senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. Senator Brown made national headlines in 2010 when he won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in a special election. During that election, it came out that Brown had posed nude for Cosmo magazine when he...
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