Surely, our majority-Catholic Supreme Court should have known better than to get on the wrong side of the Sisters. As we wrote earlier, the first victims of the new ruling on Voter ID were elderly nuns in Indiana. This just in, in my emailbox: The nuns of Missouri rap the Supreme Court’s knuckles with a [...]
For years now, the Federal Election Commission has been, more or less, a joke, dominated by political pressures as much as clear thinking. As a result of political infighting, it does not even have enough commissioners to act on anything right now. In fact, the only action of note that anyone at the FEC has [...]
This just in from the House Judiciary Committee: Conyers Issues Subpoena to Addington Washington, DC- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers issued a subpoena to David Addington, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, compelling him to testify before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 26 at 10 [...]
A — sigh — diavlog: And, yes, there is more McCain-and-the-press talk. Please, feel to pile on!
I — and a Friend of Swampland — have taken the liberty of trying to recreate the IM conversation between Obama advisor David Axelrod and Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson Michael mentions below: KewlSweater (9:26:06 PM): yt? AxStache (9:26:55 PM): y KewlSweater (9:27:01 PM): we got the white ppl! suck on it! AxStache (9:27:12 PM): sorry [...]
The Hill-O-Plane last night from Indiana had an odd feel to it. Just as we took off, leaving BlackBerry range, Obama was quickly closing the statewide margin in Lake County. The press corps was not convinced that Clinton had won the state, giving the whole flight a sort of deck-of-the-Titanic feel. Campaign staff never faltered [...]
Just now, on this morning’s HRC conference call, Geoff Garin had this spin regarding the campaign’s North Carolina 14 point loss: “We lost the white electorate in Virginia, started even in North Carolina among the white electorate just two weeks ago, and ended [with] a very significant win of 24 points among those voters.” He [...]
A little after 1AM last night, the networks that weren’t CBS called Indiana for Hillary. It was a dramatic evening for those interested in putting states in one column or another, but the real news (or lack of it) was just how close it was. As Chuck Todd started to remind viewers when yesterday became [...]
I managed to wean my focus away from the presidential campaign just long enough yesterday to read an outstanding op-ed by Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post about how the next great international crisis and war could well ignite over…..Abkhazia. “Ab-wha’?” you ask. And that’s Applebaum’s point exactly. We’re so consumed with our domestic election [...]
