November 6, 2008 – 01:50 pm
M.E.J. Newman has put together a bunch of maps that give a more realistic interpretation of how the country voted on Tuesday. He’s got a bunch of maps to check out, but I like this one the best.
It’s the 2008 presidential election results as a population cartogram, which is a map in which the sizes [...]
October 31, 2008 – 11:25 am
From CNN’s If you can’t (or can) say anything nice. . .:
“We were noticing something as we did this: The people, whether they supported McCain or Obama, seemed to be in a little better mood — in an observably more pleasant frame of mind — after they were urged to say something nice about [...]
October 30, 2008 – 08:00 am
[Editor's Note: This post is written by my uncle Val, who last contributed back in October of 2007, with a post entitled, "What is Patriotism?"]
Historically, in U.S. politics, when it comes to the popular vote at least, Catholics determine the winners in our presidential contests.
In fact, with the notable exception of George W. Bush [...]
October 17, 2008 – 10:11 am
Imagine if they’d been this amiable for the last four months. That was the campaign we were supposed to have.
September 29, 2008 – 12:32 pm
I don’t think Obama hit a home run or anything, but he seemd 90000x more presidential than did McCain.
We were watching it on CNN, and they had a little thing at the bottom of the screen that (at least on West Wing) are called Dial Groups. It’s a real time measure of how Democrats, Republicans, [...]
September 24, 2008 – 12:42 pm
So, I’m sure we’ve all heard about the Obama/Ayers connection. William Ayers is the bomb-planting radical of the Weather Underground, a violent group from the 1970s who were responsible for bombs going off at the NYC Police HQ, the U.S. Capitol building, and the Pentagon. Except for three Weathermen who blew themselves up while making [...]
September 22, 2008 – 02:18 pm
In his Op-Ed, Cash for Trash, Paul Krugman gave the easiest-to-understand explanation for our current crisis. I’ve read a bunch of these over the last week, and this one seems the best.
The bursting of the housing bubble has led to a surge in defaults and foreclosures, which in turn has led to a plunge in [...]
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