Loyola Law School Professor Rick Hasen runs the best single blog for those who want to track the legal issues around the election. He flags a possibly illegal offer from Ben and Jerry’s, which is offering a free scoop of ice cream on Election Day for anyone who votes: The problem is that paying for [...]
There is now a pattern emerging from the McCain campaign and its surrogates. Instead of trying to persuade Americans who aren’t in their camp (the sign of a campaign that thinks it can win), they are trying to de-legitimize them (the sign of a campaign that thinks it can’t). That’s what you hear in Sarah [...]
Suggesting that the most populous area of a state you ostensibly are trying to win isn’t really part of that state:
One of the ways I got to know John McCain a decade or so ago was through a mutual friend—a fellow by the name of David Ifshin. I knew David through Democratic Party politics. He was a stalwart moderate, a member of the Democratic Leadership Council and an occasional adviser to Bill Clinton. Our wives [...]
I was saddened this morning to see this obituary in the New York Times for George Keller, the former chairman of Chevron, who died at age 84 of complications from surgery. Way, way back when I was 25 years old and starting out with the Los Angeles Times business section, the paper assigned me to [...]
