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Before the Mets there were the New York Giants. They were my team; Willie Mays was my Aqua Buddha. And so I am happy today that the Giants are World Champions for the first time since 1954, which was the first year that baseball really kicked in for me.
Gotta wonder, though, about George W. Bush. His Texas Rangers lost…but he was a …
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I hate predictions. Refuse to make them. Journalists are never so stupid as when we make predictions–it implies an inside knowledge that we simply don’t have (we’re pretty good about reporting things that have already happened; less good at explaining them; dreadful at crystal balling). But I think Matt Yglesias, who is so smart about so …
Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell smiles after casting her ballot in Wilmington, Delaware on November 2. (REUTERS/Tim Shaffer)
–Walking up the big vote, our own Michael Duffy writes about the crucial yet fickle independents who are poised to deliver major gains to Republicans. A taste:
But in this pendulum-driven
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This is change you can believe in. Just two years ago, Tom Tancredo was a veritable outcast of the Republican Party. Karl Rove was screaming at him, John McCain scoffed at him, GOP pollsters viewed him as a saboteur within their midst. Tancredo’s one issue–a near-apocalyptic warning about immigrant-driven dilution of American …
Picture by Larry Downing/Reuters. For more, check out our White House Photo Blog.
Google sends over some interesting stats on the most searched/watched political content of the cycle:
UPDATE: Barack Obama has corrected the record since this post was originally published. On the Michael Baisden radio show Monday afternoon, the president admitted to misspeaking: “And you know, it’s interesting right now, there was a — I had a conversation with a Hispanic radio outlet, Univision. . . .” the president said. “And I …
This morning on TIME.com I have a look at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s fight for his political life in what is sure one of the wackiest races in what has been a weird and wonderful midterm election — certainly the most interesting I have covered. Interestingly, John Ralston, the desert guru of Nevada politics, thinks Reid will …
My professional conflicts aside, if you haven’t read Newsweek recently, you should pick it up. Transition has, ironically, been good for the magazine. There seems to be more reporting, more interesting takes, a bit more of an excited, carefree attitude. Eve Conant had a great piece last week about Marijuana and the GOP. A couple weeks …
So says former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to the WSJ:
“The only privilege that I was born with was to be a citizen of the greatest nation in human history,” he tells a breakfast crowd of supporters at the Original Pancake House in Palm Beach Gardens. “What makes America great is that anyone from anywhere can accomplish anything.” The
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The Republican Party is likely to win a major victory tomorrow. But I’m not sure how big it will be. A cause for uncertainty is the nature of modern polling. Too many polls are done on the cheap, robotically, these days–and, as Michael Blumentual points out here, more than a few of them don’t call cellphone users, who tend to be …
Left: President Obama attends a DNC Rally at Cleveland State University in Ohio, October 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Larry Downing). Right: House Minority Leader Boehner arrives at a rally for Jim Renacci on October 30, 2010 in Canton, Ohio (Matt Sullivan/Getty Images).
–Nate Silver chews over five reasons the Republican wave could be …
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I think Jon Stewart’s final plea for sanity at Saturday’s rally was among, well, the sanest statements of the political year. Keith Olbermann didn’t like it. Message to Keith, in language he should understand:
You, sirrrr, have gotten a bit too full of yourself. You’re not a charlatan like Glenn Beck, but you do go on…and on, in a …
