Building a Filibuster Proof SuperMajority Part 3
This is the third in a three-part series designed to determine whether Democrats can achieve a net gain of nine seats in the US Senate in the 2008 elections.Nine seats on top of the six seat gain...
View ArticleWhen You Crave Top Chef
The third season of America's Top Chef started Wednesday night. After two seasons on the West Coast (SF & LA), the Bravo reality series moves east, to sunny South Beach."Bienvenido a Miami!"My...
View ArticleCA-41 - Rumors of an Open Seat in the Desert
LEWIS TO RETIRE - Novak; LEWIS AIDES SAY NO DECISION HAS BEEN MADELet's Convince the Congressman It's Time to GoLast week, conservative columnist Robert Novak reported that sixteen-term Republican...
View ArticleThe Ethically Challenged Alaska GOP - Can Dems Conquer the "Last Frontier?"
Apparently Republican corruption isn't limited to the Lower 48. Two long-time Alaska politicians, Senator Ted "Tubes" Stevens and At-Large Rep. Don "Bridge to Nowhere" Young, have suddenly become the...
View ArticleGOP Redefining 2006, Pt 1 - The Myth of the Bitter Divide
This week's National Journal cover story, "Open-Field Politics" is written by Michael Barone, long-time author of The Almanac of American Politics. It is a lengthy article that merits considerable...
View ArticleWhy Do We Allow GOP Pundits to Define OUR Victory?
This is the second of three posts analyzing Michael Barone's cover story "Open-Field Politics"in the current issue of The National Journal. In the article Barone, lead author of the Almanac of American...
View ArticleCA-24: Turning The Color Purple?
The number of competitive congressional districts in California is extremely small. Our politicians have perfected gerrymandering and "incumbent protection" into an exquisite artform here in the Golden...
View ArticleWill Ike, Tony or Ross Win in 2008?
Will the next president be like Ike (Eisenhower), emerging as an attractive and experienced presidential choice to a nation weary of war?Or will the winner in 2008 redefine their party as Britain's...
View ArticleWill Bush Shut Down the Federal Govt?
Apparently, someone at the White House swept the shredded paper off the Oval Office floor, taped the pieces together and discovered the President of the United States actually has a...
View ArticleWestern Round-Up - House GOP Incumbents Attract Dem Challengers
Cross-posted at An Enduring Democratic Majority.The Democratic wave that swept out of the Atlantic across New England and the Midwest in the 2006 midterms ran out of steam as it lapped up against the...
View ArticleHillary Doesn't Prefer Blondes - Important Factoids from the Sunday Morning News
Sunday mornings at Chrispy's home have a predictable routine. This week was like most others...until I heard something about blondes...and brunettes...and I soon found myself wondering, "Is this what...
View ArticleWhat Will the Democrats Do About the Wizard of Wyoming?
The revelations in this week's WaPo series on Vice President Cheney finally reveal what many of us have believed all along. The nation should have been paying MUCH more attention to the little man...
View ArticleProgressive Power Can Make A Difference
As many of you know, Media Matters has been urging the progressive community to lobby PBS to reverse its decision to include modern day GOP Goebbels Frank Luntz on the post-debate Tavis Smiley analysis...
View ArticleAnn or Frank - Who is More Dangerous to the Democrats?
Cross-posted at Talking Stick Rules.This week, two influential Republican media figures garnered attention. Over the years, one has sought notoriety and scandal, while the other has subtly lurked...
View ArticleWildlife Group Adds 5 GOPers to Endangered Species List
Fresh off their victorious campaign ousting conservative lawmaker Rep. Richard Pombo (CA-11) in the 2006 midterms, the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund has placed targets on the back of five more...
View ArticleIndependent Voters Revealed as Anti-War Extremists
Independent voters are often viewed as the decisive power brokers in national elections. The party who successfully courts these quintessential "swing voters," typically wins presidential elections. In...
View ArticleGOP Senate Retirement Watch - the Immigration Vote
Political observers are reading the tea leaves to determine which GOP Senators are contemplating retirement. In addition to Colorado Sen Allard, as many as seven more (nearly a third of the 22 seats...
View ArticleManhattan Madness - 9/11 & New York's White House Ambitions
It's been sixty years since a New York politician secured a major party's presidential nomination when Thomas Dewey famously "won" then lost against Democratic incumbent Harry Truman in 1948. For three...
View ArticleThe 50 State Strategy - How Dems Can Win in 2018
The arcane process of congressional redistricting has always been a political and partisan process. But, as with so many of the power-grabbing assaults on our constitutional system of checks and...
View ArticleWho "Lost" Iraq?
It may seem like an inconsequential - perhaps even obscene - question to pose, as the answer is so obvious to those of us who inhabit the liberal blogosphere. The answer, however, is NOT as clear to...
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