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Democratic Strategist Archives
- Boy I'm glad Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan weren't writing in the early 60's. I tremble to think how they would have covered Martin Luther King.
- Jarman: Index Shows 'Most Vulnerable House Members'
- Political Strategy Notes
- Voting Rights Battles in the States Merit More Attention
- Brownstein: How 'Scandals' May Backfire on GOP
- The Washington Post has a very solid editorial about the so-called "scandals" today. It's a damn shame that the Post's headline writers decided to seriously distort what it says.
- Political Strategy Notes - Quick Plug Edition
- More Work, Less Pay: Why Working Women Hate The GOP
- Hey, Mitch McConnell. Let me see if I got this right: "When the IRS hassles Tea Party groups, it's wrong. When they hassle the NAACP and environmental groups, it's OK"
- Kilgore: Village Media's Self-Parody Hits Overdrive
- Cook: GOP's Benghazi, IRS Rants a Tough Sell with Public
- The Real Scandal
- Political Strategy Notes
- Mike Tomasky to Democrats: Get Ready for Attempts to impeach Obama.
- Blogger Outs GOP Hypocrisy on Benghazi Attack
- Run, Michelle, Run
- Meyerson: Labor Seeks New Forms of Worker Participation
- Political Strategy Notes
- Kilgore: If Romney had Won...
- Silver: What Sanford's Win Says About Measuring the Effect of Sex Scandals
- Creamer: GOP's Benghazi Attacks Set New Hypocrisy Standard
- Bernstein: GOP May Be Too Unhinged to Change
- Dionne: Obama Must Use His Leverage to Change the Debate
- How Republican Budget Cuts Endanger Workers, Communities
- Political Strategy Notes
- Obama Needs More Citizen Activism
- Galston: How Political Gridlock Feeds Economic Uncertainty and Blocks Recovery
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Strategy Memo: mainstream political commentators are in deep denial about the GOP's extremism and increasingly display symptoms that resemble Stockholm Syndrome
- 'Conservative Health Policy' As Political Unicorn
- Tea Party Not Hung Up on Supporting or Accommodating Republicans, or Winning Elections
- Will 2014 Voters See the Economy as Stalled by Democrats or Handcuffed by Republicans?
- Lux: Dems Must Focus on Reducing Banking Power, Saving Middle Class
- Political Strategy Notes
- Brownstein: Dream of a Comfortable Middle Class Life is Fading
- New Strategy Memo from TDS: Rand Paul's revisionist history of the GOP ignores the central fact that the exploitation of white racial resentment was for decades the GOP's fundamental political strategy regarding African-Americans
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Warren's Response to Bombings Sets Best Tone for Dems
- Battleground NC May Shape Dems' Future
- Cook: History Favors GOP in 2014, But Dems Have Tech Edge...for Now
- Austerity Advocates Called out for Faulty Research
- ED Kilgore: Obama can't overcome GOP extremism all by himself
- Alterman: 'Both Sides' Stench Unbearable Even to Some Republicans
- Political Strategy Notes
- 'Working America' Sets Out to Organize a Million Workers
- Dems Review Strategic Options for Gun Safety Reforms
- American Majority Mines Data, Helps Shape Policy, Progressive Messaging
- Creamer: GOP Will Likely Reap Public Backlash on Gun Filibuster
- Political Strategy Notes - Betrayed Children Edition
- Kilgore: Obama's Critics Could Use Reality Check
- Illinoisans widely favor candidates who support stronger gun laws
- Dems Need Better than Usual Turnout of Unmarried Women in 2014
- Political Strategy Notes
- Come on progressives, Obama's not making budget concessions to the "serious people" because he's gutless or dumb. He's doing it because they're PR flacks for the economic elite that basically runs the country.....Oh, please, don't tell me you didn't know.
- GQR Survey: Gun Owners and Voters Come Together To Support Steps to Reduce Gun Violence
- Are States Really 'Labs of Democracy'?
- Kilgore: Extremist Ideology Feeds GOP Dysfunction
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: 'America is Broke' Lie is GOP's Key Meme
- Outing the Real Effects of Thatcher's Destructive Reign
- Lux: The Budget Should Reflect Our Values
- Political Strategy Notes
- Free-falling GOP Trivializes Hitler, Stalin to Bash Obama
- Brownstein: Dems Now Strengthened by Wedge Issues
- Two Views of the Latest Budget Maneuvers
- Progressive Activists Show How to Challenge Right-Wing Media
- Dems' Daunting 2014 House Landscape Requires Creative Strategy
- Greg Sargent Explains Why Obama wants a Grand Bargain
- Shocker Alert: The President is Engaging in Politics !
- Political Strategy Notes
- Kilgore: Lucifer and Lizard People Afoot in GOP Fever Swamps
- Marist Poll: Dems on Track with Public Views on Guns, Jobs, Budget
- Inside the GOP's State-by-State Swarm
- Lady GaGa, Dolly Parton & Pitbull Have Something in Common
- Lux: Dem Progressives Want Obama to Get Tougher on Wall St.
- GOP Looking for Yawner Compromises to Soften Image of Rigidity
- Political Strategy Notes
- The big change in the conservative argument about debt and deficits
- Obama Uses Bully Pulpit to Call for Action vs. Gun Violence
- Political Strategy Notes
- Republican Suppression of Latino Voters Still at Full Throttle
- DFA 'Purple to Blue Project' to Cut GOP Edge in States
- Obama, Shinseki Must Cut VA Wait Times --- Soon
- Political Strategy Notes
- New 'Culture War' Addresses Fairness of Wealth Allocation
- Dems: think about this - "The Bible" casts an actor who looks stunningly like Obama as the Devil and then blames people for complaining. HBO uses a prop head of George W. Bush whose face the audience can't even see, apologizes abjectly and cuts the scene.
- Karen Nussbaum: a Working America Message from the Field. "Tax Fairness Is the Best Answer in budget Fights"
- PPI's Arkedis: Five Challenges Dems Should Address
- A Good Time for Democratic Reflection
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: End of Culture War Dims GOP's Future
- Honor Role of Assault Weapons Ban Co-Sponsors
- A Path to a Democratic House Majority
- How the GOP Teed Up 'Operation Redmap'
- Political Strategy Notes
- Dems: look closely at the language and metaphors that self-proclaimed "middle of the road" pundits use to criticize Obama: it provides an ironically revealing indication of their deep intellectual dishonesty.
- Lux: Obama, Dems Should Unite Against Ryan Budget, Wall St. Abuses
- Ryan's Budget Keeps Moderate Republicans Hiding in Shadows
- Kilgore: Continue the Beatings Until Morale Improves
- Political Strategy Notes
- Ryan's Budget Sets New Standard for Arrogance Toward Public
- Midwest Flagship Newspaper Calls Out GOP Hypocrites
- Behind the Latest 'Obama is in Trouble' Poll
- Greenberg; Lessons of immigration Politics Vex Conservatives
- One Democratic Woman Governor in U.S.
- Political Strategy Notes
- An Interesting Week for the GOP
- Abramowitz: How Voter Suppression Has Changed
- How Right-wing Think Tanks Support the GOP Surge in the States
- DCorps: 10 Economic Lessons from President Obama's State of the Union Address
- OFA Bans Corporate Cash, Will Report Names of Contributors
- Political Strategy Notes
- Yglesias: ABC's Misleading Sequester Poll Distorts Public Views
- Russo: Will Obama's support for advanced manufacturing help Dems win white working class votes?
- Creamer: Pundits Must Learn Seven Lessons About the Sequester
- Why Obama Shouldn't Sweat the Small Stuff
- Political Strategy Notes
- Asian-Americans Strongly Favor Dems
- White House Handled Woodward Follies Well
- Lux: OFA Fund-Raising Needed to Help Level GOP Advantage
- Political Strategy Notes
- New D-Corps Survey: Public Looking for Investment and Balanced Approach in Face of Sequester
- S.C. Shows Why the Voting Rights Act is Still Needed
- 'Fever Swamp Centrists' Diddle While GOP Blocks Recovery
- Kilgore: CPAC No Forum for 'Problem-Solving, Pragmatic Conservatives'
- Why the GOP Says They Are Ready to Throw Down
- Reich: Two Big Lies Enable GOP Obstructionism
- Political Strategy Notes
- Surrealist politics
- For political dominance the Obama coalition must win congressional elections and be widened to include more white working class voters. The Obama team knows this but the strategy they have developed isn't fully adequate to achieve it
- Creamer: GOP's 'Economic Terrorism' Threatens Recovery
- Kilgore: 'Hurricane Rick' an Unmitigated Disaster for FL
- Political Strategy Notes
- Concerns About Obamacare Way Overhyped
- The Nation Hosts Forum on 'How Can Labor Be Saved?'
- On the Purpling of Texas
- Does Obama Have Edge in Sequestration Negotiations?
- DSSC Director Gives Dems Edge in Strategy
- Dems: here's an interesting case study in how a GOP pollster and two major MSM commentators work together to perpetrate a bogus "both sides are equally to blame" anti-Democratic narrative
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lakoff: Obama's SOTU Framed Moral Vision, Shamed GOP
- How Obama Nailed The State Of The Union
- Lux: Public Ready for Bold Economic Narrative
- GOP's Free Ride on Obstruction of Hagel Nomination Shames Press
- The news that McCain is backing Lindsey Graham's sabotage of Hegel's nomination to demand more investigation of "Benghazi" shouldn't come as any surprise. Back in November TDS predicted the GOP would pull out all the stops to keep this non-story alive.
- Strategic Insights from Obama's SOTU Address
- Four Takes on Gerrymandering
- President Can Gain Momentum with Bold Jobs Investment
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Break Up Wall. St. Financial Conglomerates
- Shrum: Bully Pulpit Needed to Prevent GOP Takeover of Congress
- Berman: GOP Set on Destroying the Voting Rights Act
- The GOP split isn't between Tea Party extremists and "Establishment" moderates. It's between extremists who want to restore the Bush strategy of running parallel covert and overt agendas vs. extremists who want to openly assert a right-wing agenda
- Dionne: GOP's 'Anti-democractic Power Play' Merits More Outcry
- Political Strategy Notes
- How the GOP Can Win in 2016
- White Southerners' Rigid Conservatism Finally Fading?
- GOP's Gerrymandered Hold on Power Defies Electorate
- Kilgore: Latest GOP Makeover "Small, Greasy, Not Very Nourishing'
- Chait: GOP Assault on Majority Rule Has Long History
- Political Strategy Notes
- Meyerson: Worker and Consumer Rights Held Hostage by GOP
- Creamer: Dems Must Shun GOP's Toxic Austerity Proposals
- Political Strategy Notes
- Obama Campaign Spin-off Set to Lead 'Standing Grassroots Army'
- Nichols: How to Fight the Rigging of the Electoral College
- Abramowitz: GOP's 'cynical attempt to rig the electoral system' harms U.S. democracy
- Political Strategy Notes
- The GOP now says it wants to "welcome" Latinos but tells them that the 2012 Republican platform is just fine exactly the way it is
- Why Obama's 2nd Inaugural Address Was More Centrist Than Liberal
- Has deficit reduction really grown massively as a "top priority" for Americans during the last four years?
- Galston: The Civil War in the Business Community
- GOP's 'Virginia Coup' Escalates War on Democracy
- Political Strategy Notes
- Fate of Filibuster Reform to be Decided
- TDS Managing Editor Ed Kilgore: Either 47% of Americans are on Welfare or Paul Ryan is hoping 100% of Americans won't remember what he actually said
- Silver: Data Shows Public Supports Agenda in Obama's Speech
- Lux: A Great Progressive Speech...And Now We Make Them Do It
- Political Strategy Notes - MLK Day/Inauguration Editon
- Kromm: 'Map Mischief' Screws Dems in South
- Billion Dollar Democracy Invites Abuse, Needs Reforms
- New Study Shows Roots of Republican Obstructionism
- Messaging and policies at the edge of the fiscal cliff
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Tough Choices Ahead for Dems on 'Grand Bargain'
- New WaPo/ABC News Poll: Obama Soars, GOP Sinks
- Gimme a break
- Creamer: NRA Morphing into the 'Great Oz'
- Political Strategy Notes
- Are You Unemployed? Tired of Your Job? Thinking About a New Career? Guess What. You Can Become a Nationally Famous Republican Messaging Guru Just Like Frank Luntz. Take This Free Aptitude Test Today and See If You Qualify.
- Filibusters for Sale
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lessons of 2012: The Struggle Downballot
- Channeling the classic "reluctant gunfighter" meme - How Obama was able to get tough with the GOP during the 2012 campaign and yet still be seen as "the good guy" in public opinion polls.
- Lux: How to Avoid the Next Self-Made Crisis
- Lessons of 2012, Part II: Obama's Grand Strategy Worked, Romney's Didn't
- GOP's 'Constitutional Hardball' Undermines Democracy
- The "platinum coin" alternative may be a "gimmick," but it can play a very useful role in restoring balance to a negotiation that is deeply unbalanced by the equally outrageous gimmicks proposed by GOP extremism.
- Lessons of 2012, Part I: For All the Turbulence and Hype, No "Game Changes"
- Political Strategy Notes
- Questioning Some Shaky Memes
- Judis: Why Obama Won Big and How Dems Can Win the Battle Ahead
- Creamer: Raising Top Tax Rates a Big Win for Dems
- Fiscal Cliff Vote: What the House Tally Says
- Creamer: GOP's Fear of Tea Party Primaries Causes Fiscal Crisis
- Political Strategy Notes
- Data Shows How the GOP Drives Polarization -- and Gridlock
- "Fiscal Cliff" Is the Campaign Continued
- Should Dems Implement the 'Talking Filibuster'?
- Political Strategy Notes
- The political centrism of the 1990's played a major role in the evolution of today's broad Democratic coalition. The superficial, "Dems are part of the problem" centrism that Third Way has been presenting lately offers a radically different perspective
- Silver: Fiscal Coalition Math for Incoming Congress Also Tricky
- Dems Unifying as GOP Fragments
- Pre-Christmas Final Exam -- Current Events
- Boehner's Choice: Country vs. Career
- TDS Co-Founding Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public's Views on 'Fiscal Cliff' Issues Crystal-Clear
- New Poll Indicates Obama and Dems Riding Favorable Tailwind in Struggles with the GOP
- Forecast: More Gridlock Ahead
- Political Strategy Notes
- Is the NRA's Reign as Political Bully Coming to an End?
- Latest GOP Scam: Gerrymandering the Electoral College
- The Republican Problem: 'It's The Quality Of The Inmates'
- GOP's Choice: A 'Knot of Toads' or a Party with a Future
- Lux: Time for Dems to Lead on Child Safety, Welfare
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Now is the Time to Ban Assault Weapons
- Michigan's Right-to-work-for-less Phonies Get Told
- Lux: Why Dems Shouldn't Worry About Kerry's Senate Seat
- Michigan's 'Meat Puppet' Gov. Symbolizes GOP's Moral Corruption, Dems' Challenge
- Races To the Bottom
- Political Strategy Notes
- Chait: Why Politics Drives GOP's Campaign to Crush Unions
- Dems: Let's not let deficit hawks get away with calling sensible negotiating positions "unreasonable". Dems will be reasonable when dealing with reasonable opponents. Faced with debaters' tricks and hostage-takers, they must apply different rules.
- Meyerson: GOP War Against Unions Driven by Politics, Greed
- How Democracy Corps Got It Right
- TDS Co-Founding Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Increased Spending in Key Areas
- Lux: Obama Must Use Leverage to Define His Presidency
- Political Strategy Notes
- DeMint Gone for the Green
- Responding to the Sneak Attack Vs. Michigan Labor
- Cosmetic Makeovers and Bloodless Purges
- Political Strategy Notes
- Et Tu Jennifer?
- 3-D Infographic Map Shows Location, Tint of 2012 Votes
- Teixeira and Halpin: The Obama Coalition in the 2012 Election and Beyond
- TDS Founding Editor Ruy Teixeira: Two Priorities Top Public's Concerns About Fiscal Showdown
- Teixeira: 3 Lessons from the 2012 Election About the Progressive Coalition
- A Cultural Sea Change: Analysis of National Post-Election Survey and State Exit Surveys on Marriage Equality
- Creamer: Five Reasons Why Obama Should Win Lame Duck Budget Battle
- Mitch McConnell Finally Shows His Hand
- In 2011, Senate Minority Leader "Mitch" McConnell Gave Democrats Some Very Good Advice About How to Negotiate With The GOP - Dems Should Take McConnell's Advice Seriously and Look At What A Specialist In This Particular Kind of Negotiation Recommends.
- Political Strategy Notes
- Oh, so that's what really happened on election day.
- States with Election Day Registration Led Turnout in '12
- Dems' Edge in GOTV Technology Vexes GOP
- The Very Strange Regression of the Fiscal Talks
- Dems take note: there are some encouraging signs that the Obama team is not going to put the massive campaign organization into a deep freeze like they did after 2008. This could make a major difference in 2014 and beyond.
- Political Strategy Notes
- Chait: Boehner's Inability to Bargain Helps Dems
- How 'Trojan Horse' Strategy Strengthened Obama's Current Edge
- Lux: Dems Must Press Obama to Leverage His Power for Change
- Creamer: Dems Must Defend 99 Percenters in Lame Duck Budget Battle
- Political Strategy Notes
- Political Strategy Notes
- Unfinished Business: Documenting Voter Supression in the Election
- Romney Could Help Heal America, But Seems Uninterested
- Lux: Be Thankful for Social Security, Medicare....and its Unconvincing Opponents
- Phony Wars and Rumors of War--And the Battle in the States
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Centrist Dems Must Embrace Populist Message of Election
- Creamer: Election has Clear Mandates for Obama...and Republicans
- Can Dems Pick Up 17 House Seats in 2014?
- Watch out Dems: Don't underestimate the conservative "Benghazi scandal" narrative. It isn't irrational, trivial or vacuous. It serves to support four very important attacks on Obama. As a result, conservatives are going to play it for all that its worth.
- Political Strategy Notes
- Into the Post-Election "Struggle For the Soul" Period
- It's time to face a harsh reality: the GOP no longer behaves like a traditional American political party. It has become an extremist party. Moderates and sensible conservatives need to firmly reject and condemn this deeply disturbing and dangerous trend.
- Lux: The Power of Progressive Unity
- The Role of the Rising American Electorate in the 2012 Election
- Ads Do Matter....When They are Early or Really Good
- How Much Did GOP Voter Supression Backfire?
- Political Strategy Notes
- Needed: Project to Increase Democratic Turnout in 2014 Midterm Election
- Voters Push Back Against Big Money Politics
- I admit it. I'm rootin' 110% for Good ole' "Charlie the K" Krauthhammer in the intra-Republican debate. He's my man. He ain't having none of this silly "reassessment" malarkey.
- HOW UNMARRIED WOMEN, YOUTH AND PEOPLE OF COLOR DEFINED THIS ELECTION
- Five Takeaways From the 2012 Election
- No "Centrist Reforms" On Tap For Republicans
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Populist Message Fuels Democratic Wins
- Brownstein: Credit Obama's Innovative Coalition With Historic Win
- The Ass-Whuppin' Cometh
- Presidential Race Forecaster Round-Up
- Teixeira: Thank Latinos for Obama Win
- Creamer: Consequences of Not Voting
- Lux: Your Part in the American Story
- Election Countdown: Day 1
- Why Obama is Going to Win
- Obama closing with a 4-point lead
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Big Progressive Turnout Needed to Stop Romney World
- Westen: Progressive Messaging Will Win Middle-Class Support
- Election Countdown: Day 4
- Wow. The Washington Post flat-out savages Romney today - says his only consistency is "contempt for the electorate"
- Paul Krugman on the GOP's political strategy: "blackmail" and "protection racket politics
- Lux: Surprises More Likely to Benefit Dems
- Obama Among Best Presidents for the U.S. Economy
- How the Obama Campaign Can Win The Battle for the Undecided
- Election Countdown: Day 5
- Political Strategy Notes
- Election Countdown: Day 6
- Creamer: Romney Embraces Bush Template on FEMA, Economy, War
- Teixeira: Public Wants Tax Hikes for Rich, Opposes Obamacare Repeal
- Ezra Klein: The GOP's extremist strategy worked; Romney benefited, America lost
- Election Countdown: Day 7
- Team Obama's State-of-the-Art Voter Research Smokes GOP
- Voter Vigilantes Threaten Election Integrity
- Romney's Waffling on FEMA Won't Win Many Votes
- Election Countdown: Day 8
- DCorps: Cell phones -- why we think Obama will win the popular vote, too
- Edsall: Super-Wealthy King-Makers May Turn Political Parties into Rubber Stamps
- Southern Swing States Still in Play
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Obama's Closing Week Should Highlight His Economic Plan, Romney's Elitism and the GOP's Obstructionism
- Election Countdown: Day 11
- MSM Should End Romney's Free Ride on Refusing to Disclose His Taxes
- Stalking the Elusive White Male Vote
- Election Countdown: Day 12
- Obama's Lengthening Coattails May Save Senate for Dems
- Political Strategy Notes
- Election Countdown: Day 13
- An Inside Look at Obama's Ground Game
- Latino Undercount Distorts Campaign Coverage
- Granholm Shreds Romney's Flip-Flop on Auto Bailout
- Chait: Romney Trying to Hustle MSM with Bogus Momentum Meme
- Election Countdown: Day 14
- Hope for Romnesia
- How Obama just won Ohio: moderate isolationism
- Lux: It's All About GOTV Now
- Addressing the Threat of GOP Electronic Voter Fraud
- Political Strategy Notes: 'Horses and Bayonettes" Edition
- DCorps: Obama Regains Lead in New Pre-Debate Poll
- New Poll: Working Families Strongly Favor Obama
- Creamer: Compelling Reasons Why Obama Will Win
- Romney's Arrogant, Unprecedented Evasions of Disclosure
- Obama closing on progress or future: Unique web test says, would you believe, 'both'
- Abramowitz: Gallup Poll Showing Romney Lead a 'Big Outlier'
- GOP Vote Theft Scandal Widens
- A new study of Drone warfare has sparked criticism of Obama as "cynical" and "immoral." But the criticisms lack any context. They don't say a single word about the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, counterinsurgency strategy or the military establishment.
- Greg Sargent Makes a vitally important point today - Democratic unity is the secret weapon that may preserve a Democratic Senate - and the future of America.
- Coalition Mobilizing Against Election Day Voter Suppression
- Big Dog, Boss Rock Ohio Blue Collars for Obama
- Kilgore on Sketchy's 'Tonality'
- Political Strategy Notes
- Kilgore: Romney 'Hosed by the Ref' -- Not
- Lux: When Obama and Dems Engage, We Win
- Strong Win Puts Obama Back on Track
- Teixeira and Halpin: Focus on 'Demographic Fundamentals'
- Obama's Challenge Beyond the Debates-- and the Election
- Kilgore: Obama Must Unmask Romney's Radical Vision of Change
- Getting to the bold policy offer winning now requires
- "That's Not a Plan, McClain, How You Do That Is A Plan"
- Political Strategy Notes
- Pierce: Biden Shreds Ryan's 'Big Ideas'
- Kilgore: Dems' Debt to Biden
- Maher: 'Hello 911? There's an old man beating a child on my tv'
- Pushing "Moderate Mitt" Back Across That Threshold
- Seifert: To Regain The Lead, Obama Must Listen To These Swing Voters
- Political Strategy Notes
- New GQR Study: Winning the 47 percent
- Kilgore: The Two faces of 'Moderate Mitt' and Anti-Choice Romney
- See-Saw Polls No Reason for Dems to to Panic
- Lux: How Dems Get Back on Offense
- Granholm: Obama's Job One is an Appeal to 'The Great National Heart'
- TDS Founding Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Blames Bush, Inequality for Economic Woes, Not Regulation
- Will GOTV Trump Debates, Jobs figures?
- Kilgore: Mitt's Foreign Policy Vision Shallow, Uninspiring
- Political Strategy Notes
- TNR Makes Case for Obama Reelection
- BLS Bashers Shredded by Eight Top Economic Reporters
- Kilgore: Romney's 'Move to Center' All Rhetoric, No Policy
- Romney Plans to Gut Charities, as Well as PBS
- Latest Polls: Dems Likely to Hold Senate
- Lux: Romney's Temporary Disguise Won't Sell
- Political Strategy Notes - Post Debate Edition
- Kilgore: Mendacious Mitt's Highwire Act Not Likely to End Well
- DCorps: Romney's Good Night Not Likely a Game-Changer
- Some Tips for the Next Debate
- Wonkblog: Romney's Debate Performance Wins CNN Snap Poll, Spin War
- Race Tightening on Day of Debate? Only in Spinland
- The Latest Wonkage on Influence of Presidential Debates
- Kilgore: Lacking Credible Solutions, Romney Will Evade, Lie
- Reich: Some Good Questions for Tonight's Debate
- Creamer: Romney's Disrespect for People Who Need Help Backfires
- Lakoff: In Political Debates, Frame it Your Way
- Teixeira: Voucherizing Medicare a Non-Starter With Public
- Kilgore: Friday Jobs Report Sure to Amp Up GOP Echo Chamber
- In Congressional Battleground, Voters Intensely Concerned About Money in Politics
- Chait: 'Poetic Justice' for Romney Richly-Deserved
- Political Strategy Notes
- Get Ready Dems: If Obama wins conservatives will try to de-legitimize his victory with hysterical, phony claims of "massive election fraud." There are four important ways Dems can plan now to fight back
- More Voters Agree: 'GOP = Gridlock, Obstruction and Paralysis'
- Lux: Time for Dems' Full Case Press
- Creamer: Why Romney Would be a Disaster for Our National Security
- New Obama Ad: Time for 'Economic Patriotism'
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: How Dems Can Win --- and Govern
- A Letter to a "Middle of the Road Moderate" Non-Latino Friend About the Profound Moral Difference Between Democrats and Republicans
- Kilgore: Fear Not the Late Inning Game-Changers
- The Stench and Gilligan
- An Innovative Approach to Microtargeting Constituencies
- Greenberg: How Romney's 'Private Moment' Defines the Race
- Bernstein: Blame Fox News Instead of Romney
- Kilgore: White Working-Class Voters More Diverse Than Many Assume
- Political Strategy Notes
- Schakowsky: 'Romney's cold, selfish, self-satisfied vision' limns grim future
- Greenberg: GOP Party I.D. Tanking
- Brownstein: Obama on Track to Meet '80-40 Target'
- Lux: The Message We Need to Create a Wave Election
- Kilgore: Working People Bit Players to Romney, Mighty Job-Creators
- Political Strategy Notes
- Kilgore: Romney's Tax Gripes about 47% Sure to Boomerang
- Lux: Latest Gaffe Outs Romney's Core Belief -- Rand is Right
- Jonathan Chait captures the key point about the Romney tape - it reveals Romney's true and appalling character that lurks behind his public mask
- Brooks Blisters Romney
- John Judis: Why Romney's Personality May Sink His Ticket
- TDS Co-Founder Ruy Teixeira: Public Rejects Conservative View of Stimulus
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Wingnut Base Freezes Romney's Traction
- Obama Builds Real Lead in Presidential Contest: Report on post-convention survey
- Kilgore: Romney Campaign A.D.D. Puts Strategy on Hold
- PA Coalition Mobilizing to Resist Voter Suppression by GOP
- Latest News from the Alternative Universe Next Door
- Kilgore: GOP Spills the Whine Re Romney's Gaffes and 'Liberal Media Bias'
- Why Rebuilding Unions Must be a Democratic Priority
- Political Strategy Notes
- Romney's Blundering 'Diplomacy' Amplified -- Again
- Kilgore: Evidence is Thin That GOP Ad Deluge Will be Game-Changer
- Kilgore: Mendacity Is Romney's Pre-Existing Condition
- TDS Co-Founder Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Tax Hike for Rich to Reduce Deficit, Not Cuts in Social Security or Medicare Benefits
- Fighting the Contemptible 'Bullies at the Ballot Box'
- Is Romney running a "one-size-fits-all" ad campaign? "Nonsense", says Romney's pollster. "You could sure fool me" says Andrew Sullivan
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Dem Messaging Should Now 'Go Big and Aspirational'
- Political Strategy Notes
- Why GOP ads assert the odd notion that rejecting Obama is just like breaking up with your lousy boyfriend.
- Granholm Revs Up Dem Engines
- Lux: Super PACs, Citizens United Damage Even Worse Than Reported
- Inside Romney's Race Card Strategy
- Kilgore: 'Pride' in the ACA a Key Convention Theme
- Chait: Obama's First Term Exceeded Expectations
- Wow. Here's a big story the MSM missed. The London Economist, the most respected business magazine on the planet, body-slams Romney as an "Olympic flip-flopper," "a fawning PR man," and "willing to do or say just about anything to get elected"
- Dem Convention Brings Attention to Political Changes in the South
- Kilgore: Day One's Aggressive Attack Sets Stage for 'Epic GOTV'
- THE BIG THINGS OBAMA CAN GET DONE AT THE CONVENTION
- Kilgore: 'Big Dog' Convention Speech May Have Potent Impact
- 'Horse Race' Reporting Substandard -- As Well As Overvalued
- Lux: Election Will Turn on Who Wins Four Arguments
- Political Strategy Notes - Labor Day Edition
- The Incoherence of the Republican Convention Message
- New DCorps Poll: Romney's High Personal Negatives Give Obama Edge
- Teixeira: Romney's Already Low Latino Support Evaporating
- New Meme from GOP Convention: 'Lyin' Ryan'
- Creamer: Romney Whiffs at Swing Voters
- Political Strategy Notes
- A TDS Strategy Memo: A letter to a "middle of the road moderate" non-Latino friend about the profound moral difference between Democrats and Republicans.
- Chait: Polls May Overestimate Size of White Electorate
- LUX: Low Road GOP Campaign Targets Low Information Voters
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Founding Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants to Keep Medicare the Same, Opposes Vouchers
- Priebus Gets Told re Romney's 'Race Card'
- Ryan's 'Son of Toil' Meme Dissolves Under Scrutiny
- A Working America Message from the field: Coalition Leverages Akin Fiasco for Dems in MO
- Romney's Religious Privacy Excuse for Secrecy About His Taxes: No Sale
- Creamer: Romney's Myopic 'Vision' Serves One-Percenters Only
- Kilgore: Guess Who is Really Ready to 'Gut Welfare Reform'
- Bowers: Fight vs. Voter Suppression Gains Ground, Needs More Support
- Political Strategy Notes
- Help Daily Kos Fight Voter Suppression in PA
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Business Elites' Self-Destructive Tilt
- Spotlighting the GOP's Undeserved Cred for Fiscal Responsibility
- Kilgore, on 'Todd Akin, Superstar'
- Akin as Poster-Boy for GOP's Medieval Medicine, Junk Science
- New Book Reveals Stats That Could Help Dems, Especially with Seniors
- Akin Headed Under the Bus, But GOP Damaged Anyway
- Ryan's 'Regular Guy' Kabuki Invites Ridicule
- Political Strategy Notes
- Dems: here's a really interesting result buried in this week-end's big WaPo/Kaiser poll
- Artur Davis and Other Democratic Apostates: A Brief Taxonomy
- A Working America Message From The Field: On Jobs and Taxes, It's About Fairness
- Kilgore: On Mitt's Taxes, 13% of What?
- What Has Changed in the 2012 Campaign
- 'Swift Boat II' Boomerangs on Republicans
- Sargent: Romney's 'Just Trust Me' Campaign a Crapshoot
- Political Strategy Notes - Voter Suppression Edition
- Ryan's Tax Plan is Payback to His Contributors
- Ryan's Leaden Baggage Now Romney's, As GOP Ticket Sinks
- Ryan's Phony Working-Class Persona a Tough Sell
- Lux: Ryan-Romney Budget is Ayn Rand's Dream, America's Nightmare
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Investments in Education, Infrastructure
- Romney Ends the Primaries
- Creamer: Ryan Pick Burns Romney's Bridges to Moderation
- Political Strategy Notes
- It's time to tell the truth about Paul Ryan. His personal philosophy says working people are stupid, bloodsucking parasites and the Sermon on the Mount a pile of soft-headed, do-gooder crap. No, that's not an exaggeration. That's really what he believes.
- Fun Facts About Romney's Veepmate
- TDS Editor Ed Kilgore: Ryan's Denial of Ayn Rand Won't Stick
- Bowers: Ask Safe Dem Candidates to Share $ with Dems in Close Races
- Romney's Mendacious Welfare Ad--And Its Purpose
- Political Strategy Notes
- How Republican Anti-Government Rhetoric Backfired in Georgia
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Dismantling the GOP's Odious Philosophy of Voter Suppression
- Kilgore: Clinton Shreds Romney's Whopper
- Kilgore: Anything Goes with Romney's Chief Strategist
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Likes Government Role in Health Care
- Political Strategy Notes
- Tomasky: GOP's Shrinking Membership and Ideas Give Dems Edge
- Marriage Equality In the South: An Analysis and a Strategy
- A Working America Message from the field: "After the Supreme Court's decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, we wanted to know how our members--who consistently rank health care as one of their top issues- were responding."
- Abramowitz: TV Ads and Especially Field Offices Do Matter
- The Impact of the Texas Purge on the GOP
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Romney's 'Bush League' Foreign Policy Won't Win Many Voters
- Lakoff: Obama's Vision of 'the Public' Should be Front and Center in Messaging
- Why 'Republican War Against Women' Is No Exaggeration
- 'Low-Information' Undecided May Swing 2012 Outcome
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Says Tax Hike for Rich Not Unfair
- Political Strategy Notes
- Mitt Romney's Incredible Shrinking Biography
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Obama's Remaining Challenge
- Abramowitz: 'Enthusiasm Gap' Favoring GOP is Way-Overstated
- The invasion of Iraq overthrew Iran's most lethal enemy and replaced it with a regime that is now Iran's closest and most reliable ally. Depressingly, Mitt Romney has chosen the architects of this massive strategic fiasco as his principal advisors.
- Political Strategy Notes
- New Report: Obamacare Has ALREADY Saved Seniors Nearly $4 Billion -- on Drugs Alone
- Idea-Bankrupt GOP Wages War of Attrition Against Facts
- Political Strategy Notes
- Kilgore: GOP Voter Suppression Has No Equivalent in Dem Strategy
- Lux: 'Rising American Electorate' Changing Electoral Tide
- Kilgore: 'Magic Word Gaffe' Not Likely to Sell
- New DCorps/Resurgent Republic Poll Gauges Fallout from ACA Decision
- Public's Low Trust of Big Biz Hurts Romney, GOP
- Abramowitz: Don't Bet on 'Independents' Swaying Election
- Political Strategy Notes
- Serious Attack on Ryan Budget Takes Toll on Mitt Romney
- Lux: Middle Class Future at Stake
- What Mitt Romney Failed To Learn From John Kerry: You Can't Run On Biography Alone
- The Bain Moment and Its Strategic Significance
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: 2012 and 2004
- TDS Strategy Memo: The White Working Class is a Decisive Voting Group in 2012 - and Most of What You Read About Their Political Attitudes Will Be Completely Wrong.
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Romney's Evasive Character Unfit for Presidency
- Political Strategy Notes
- The Medicaid Fight As the Starting Gun for 2016
- Chait: Voter Suppression Driven By GOP Fear of Demographic Change
- Romney's Business Qualifications a Net Liability in Polls
- Cohn: Obama Must Do Better with White Workers in Midwest
- Tomasky: Time for Obama to Fight on Taxes
- GOP's Voter Suppression -- Where's the Outrage?
- Wow - in just 12 easy to understand sentences that crazy radical left-wing magazine Business Week explains why mandates are as American as apple pie and make good solid business sense.
- Abramowitz: Who's telling the truth and who's lying to the American public?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants to Keep or Expand Obamacare
- Math Proff's Talking Points for Obama
- Starr: The Supreme Court Decision As a Political Opportunity
- Political Strategy Notes
- The Louisiana Voucher Fiasco and the Romney/Jindal Nexus
- Nader's Critique of Dems Could Help Defeat Romney
- A TALE OF TWO SUPER PACS
- Kilgore: Romney's Never-Ending Primary Pandering
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Romney's 'Quiet Rooms' Really About His Hidden Offshore Investments
- Time to Protest Against Republican Governors?
- Kilgore: Arise, Ye Citizens of the Tea Party
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Outsourcing Stopped
- Kilgore: Getting Real About Roberts, High Court's Future
- Political Strategy Notes
- An Important Contribution to the "White Working Class" Debate
- Keep Your Eye On the Medicaid Expansion Issue
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Conservatives' Long March Through the Court Hits a Wall
- Conservatives Race To Get Their ObamaCare Talking Points
- Kilgore: Romney's Dilemma May Dilute His Message
- Creamer: Ruling Will Secure a Healthier America, Electrify Dem Base
- Dems Celebrate ACA Ruling, While GOP Spills the Whine
- Kilgore: MSM Meme Re Dem Convention No-Shows is for Dummies
- Political Strategy Notes
- Mitt's "Simple" Plan
- Using a Constitutional Amendment vs. 'Citizens United' --- to Start a Movement
- Kilgore: GOPsters Embrace 'Hate the Whole, Love the Parts' Paradox
- Creamer: Bad Week for Dream-Killing Outsourcing Pioneer Romney
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Supports Obama on Halting Youth Deportations
- Political Strategy Notes
- Lux: Romney's Role as Jobs Outsourcing Pioneer Should Hurt His Chances
- Political Strategy Notes
- Romney at NALEO: More Damage Control Than Outreach
- Long Haul Lessons from the French Left
- Fresh Framing Advice for Obama Campaign
- Progressives and Democrats cannot possibly match the vast financial resources of business and the wealthy and must turn to building powerful, long-term grass-roots organizations. That makes "Working America" the most important political project in America
- Romney's "Repeal and Reverse" Agenda
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Middle Class, Poor Losing Ground to Rich
- Obama Must Define Romney: A Reply To William Galston
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Obama Doubles Down on "Two Futures" Message
- Political Strategy Notes
- Brownstein: Romney Must Near Reagan's Success with White Workers
- TDS Contributor Alan Abramowitz on recent Rasmussen polling: "flooding the zone," "over-counting Republicans" and "shilling for the GOP"
- Lux: Romney's Anti-Small Business Agenda
- Campaign Gaffes That Big a Deal?
- Political Strategy Notes
- Support for Obama Down Among White Working Class
- A Forum on Our Political Future at 'Democracy'
- Lux: Lessons of a Turning Point Can Help Obama
- Latest D-Corps Memo: Shifting the Economic Narrative
- How GOP, Conservative Media Leverage Public Worker Horror Stories
- Political Strategy Notes
- Why Democrats Should Ignore Swing Voters and Focus on Voter Registration and Mobilization
- The Recall in Broader Perspective
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Opposes Repeal, Cuts in Obamacare
- New Polls Illuminate White Working Class Concerns
- Political Strategy Notes
- WI Recall: A Little Good News Amid Three Painful Lessons
- On Wisconsin
- Five Takeaways From the Primary Season
- Edsall: Demographics, Faith, Egalitarian Values Feed Polarization
- Political Strategy Notes
- Chum in the Water
- Former Justice Stevens Predicts Cracks in 'Citizens United'
- How the Obama Campaign Leverages 'E.I.P.'s'
- Political Strategy Notes
- Sullivan: Obama Needs 'Reasoned Centrist Approach' to Win
- Romney and Trump: the Equivocator and the Bloviator
- Lux: Romney a Disaster-in-Waiting for Sick, Disabled
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Support for Marriage Equality at All-Time High
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How Europe Could Sink Obama's Election Chances--And What He Can Do About It
- Romney: Going Negative, Subtly
- Bowers: Sign Petition, Thank 22 A.G.'s Fighting 'Citizens United'
- Lux: Obama Should Hang Tough on Wall St. Regulation
- Shareholders Fighting for Transparency in Political Donations
- How Workers and Shareholders Can Check Corporate Abuse
- Political Strategy Notes
- Reich: No Free Ride for Romney's 'Casino'/Vulture Capitalism
- Romney's Etch-a-Sketch Moment
- June 5: High Stakes in WI for Labor, Dems
- Creamer: Romney's Bain History About Wealth for Few, Not Jobs for Many
- Kilgore: Mitt's Message Floats Above the Cultural Fray
- A Daily Kos Interview with Bill Galston on the 2012 election
- Political Strategy Notes
- Super-PACs Down-Ballot
- Political Strategy Notes
- Biden's Moment
- New False Equivalency Meme: Outing Rich Donors = Nixon's Enemies list
- GOP Ads About to Take Lower Road in a Big Way
- Americans Elect: Lessons of 'A Ridiculous Flop'
- Ante Upped in Super-PAC Poker
- Teixeira: AZ Obama's Best Chance for a Pick-up
- Americans Elect Flunks Deadline
- Romney's Likeability Gap, er... Chasm
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Environment Protected
- What's Really New About the GOP
- Austerity Wizards Left Sputtering
- Political Strategy Notes
- Romney Bully Story May Have Booby Traps
- Chait: 'Weenie' Donors Could Endanger Dems' Chances
- Obama's Strategic Challenge to Romney on Same-Sex Marriage
- Political Strategy Notes
- DCorps: Money in Politics is a Ballot Box Issue
- Kilgore: Tea Party a Reflection, Not Cause of the GOP's Rightward Drift
- Dem Debate Over Funding GOTV Over Ads Intensifies
- Making Middle Class Opportunity Our Top Policy Priority
- Romney and GOP Decency Deficit Laid Bare
- Report on Decline of Black, Latino RV's Distorted
- Lux: New Book by Romney Partner Shows Shallow Economic Philosophy
- What Does Ron Paul Really Want?
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Romney Locked into Hard Right Agenda
- How Dems Can Attract Evangelical Voters
- Tomasky: Electoral College Math Bad News for Romney
- GOP View of Politics as Warfare Creates Gridlock
- Rosenstein: Support Obama on LGBT Rights, While Demanding More
- The Limits--and Possibilities--of a "Populist" Message for Obama
- Sargent: Money Not Helping Walker Much in WI Recall Battle
- Political Strategy Notes
- New GOP Meme: 'Forward' Means 'Socialism'
- Lux: Accountability for Big Bankers Can Help Dems
- A Religio-Political Realignment Around Culture As Opposed To--Everything Else
- Political Strategy Notes
- The Conservative "Christianization" of Thomas Jefferson: A new book claims America's great champion of religious freedom and tolerance was actually just a conventionally devout and pious Christian. Sadly, millions of Americans will believe it's true.
- An Alternative to Whining About Dem Failures
- Ryan's Denial of Ayn Rand Won't Stick
- Florida Battleground a Huge Challenge for Dems
- Romney's Twisted 'Fairness' Meme Not Likely to Fool Many Voters
- Political Strategy Notes
- How Far Can Romney Pivot on Immigration?
- Obama Has Early Edge in Ground Game
- 'Blue Dog' Losses: Good Party Discipline or Shrinking Big Tent?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: A Tax Reform Proposal That Could Win Over Everybody
- Stalking the Elusive 'Real Romney'
- Labor's Pivotal Role in Progressive Politics
- How to Prep for Polling Anomalies
- So Howya Like Funding ALEC?
- Creamer: Getting to Know 'Real' Romney Won't Help Him
- Political Strategy Notes
- Why the Christian Right Doesn't Care That Mitt Romney is a Mormon
- Dick Morris' House of Cards, and the Bishops Crack Down
- Tomasky: At This Stage Negotiating with GOP is a Fool's Errand
- Romney's 'Weaselly Refusal' Re VAWA Won't Help GOP
- Political Strategy Notes
- Dems Up in Battleground, Ryan Budget Could Finish the Job
- Kilgore: Demographic Voting Trends Track '08 Pattern
- Dems Should Address Internal Arguments, But Not to Distraction
- Chait: Why 'Bipartisanship' Tanked
- More Than a Referendum
- Lux: GOP's 1896 Robber Baron Agenda a Non-Starter for Serious Voters
- Schmitt: How Progressive Coalition Checks Corporate Abuse
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Supports 'Fairness' Overwhelmingly
- Teixeira's Field Guide to Swing Voters
- Dems Set to Benefit from Demographic Trends
- Even Wendy's Dumps ALEC
- Being "Too Conservative" Not Santorum's Downfall--Not in This Republican Party!
- Lux: Dems Need Nuanced Populism in Messaging
- Strategic Decision by Obama Campaign?
- Political Strategy Notes
- The Latino Vote: Where it Matters Most
- Romney Tanking in Battleground States
- Creamer: How 'Buffett Rule' Can Spur Growth
- New Coalition Network Mobilizing to Fight ALEC
- All About the Swingers
- The Third Way study and the issue "that dares not speak its name"
- GOP Focus Groups Reveal Strategy for Appeal to Young Voters
- Third Way: Obama Has Edge in 'Likeability' with Swing Voters, But Needs Stronger 'Opportunity' Message
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Obama Should Stay Focused On Substance of Health Reform Attack, Not the Supreme Court
- Lux: Dems Must Fight Right-Wing Dystopia of Rand, Darwin
- Mitt Hasn't Quite "Sealed the Deal" With the Right
- Political Strategy Notes
- Obama Beats Romney In Tuesday Primaries
- Gender Gap May Give Obama Pivotal Edge
- Mitt's Credibility Problem, Politico's Election-Turning Moments, and a Case of Election (sic!) Fraud
- Voters Support New EPA Rules on Carbon Emissions
- 'Magical Thinking" vs. 'Plan B'
- Mitt Romney's Sinking Approval Ratings
- Romney May Pay Price for His Union-bashing
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: What the Supreme Court Will Consider
- Media Coverage of GOP Contest
- Abramowitz: Modest Gains for Dems in Forecasting Model
- Anti-Abortion Tactic Boomerangs
- Florida Voter Suppression Taking Increasing Toll
- Political Strategy Notes
- 'Good Government' Republicans AWOL
- Dreaded ACA Scenario...Might Not Be So Bad
- Will Roberts Court Set New Standard for Partisan Sleaze?
- Reich: If ACA Falls, 'Plan B' Should Include Medicare Option for All
- Greg Sargent Nails the False Equivalency Claptrap Behind the "Death of Bipartisanship"
- Video Clip Shows GOP Flip-Flops on Individual Mandate
- ACA at Two: Already a Life-Saver, Cost-Cutter
- Unfinished Rights Revolution, As Well As Demographics Closing in on GOP
- From Keyser Soze To Economic Fundamentalists
- Political Strategy Notes
- Huck on Track to Rule Wingnut Radio
- How High Court Ruling Could Backfire on GOP
- Political Strategy Notes
- For All Practical Purposes, GOP Race Is Over
- GQR Focus Group: Dems in Strong Position on National Security
- GOP's War on Free Speech Intensifies
- Wake up, mainstream media. Santorum believes scientists are inherently immoral, the universities are controlled by Satan, "free exercise of religion" trumps protection of minority religious rights and only Christian morality can guide America.
- Is Romney Campaign Incompetent?
- GA Anti-Protest Bill Gets State GOP in Trouble with Tea Party
- Lux: Obama Must Fight Harder for Stable Middle Class
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: DOA GOP Budget Tanks with Public
- One More Time: Polling Averages Avoid Outlier Traps
- Conservatives More Unhinged Than Ever?
- Political Strategy Notes
- Tribal Conceptions of 'Sacredness' Driving Polarization
- Brownstein: Obama Gaining Cred with Public
- Jonathan Bernstein: The perils of running against a fantasy Obama
- Latest from Chris Bowers. campaign director at Kos: Scott Walker has now lost the Republican majority in the Wisconsin state senate.
- 'Sith Lords of the Ultra-Right' Back Santorum
- Dems Must Recruit More People of Color, Women Candidates
- Of Big Lies and False Equivalence
- Political Strategy Notes
- The Two-Candidate Race Has Finally Arrived
- Tomasky: GOP Flirts with Economic Sabotage
- Chait: Dems, Don't Overstate the Recovery
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Americans and Israelis Urge Caution on Iran
- Confusion About 'Independents' Misleading White House?
- Mark Schmitt on choosing an agenda for a second Obama term: "Political Reform Should Be Priority Number One"
- Political Strategy Notes
- Post-Super Tuesday Political Environment
- Obama's 'Progressive Pragmatism' on Foreign Policy Should Prove a Campaign Asset
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Supports Auto Bailout, Stimulus
- GQRR Poll: Birth Control Debate Helps Dems, Hurts GOP in Battleground States
- Political Strategy Notes
- Pro-Dem Strategy Memo: Romney Damaged by Protect-the-Rich Agenda
- Wingnut Ruse Exposed, Blocked by I.R.S.
- Teixeira Slays Myth of Independent Voters as Pivotal Force
- Mitt's Southern Discomfort
- Teixeira: GOP Primaries Give Huge Bump--- to Obama
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why Super Tuesday Won't Deliver a Knockout Blow
- Creamer: Gas Price Hikes May Backfire on GOP
- How Obama Can Win Working-Class Voters
- Political Strategy Notes
- Brownstein: Romney's Primary Wins May Come with High Price
- Thomas Jefferson's Religious Philosophy: A Profound and Inspiring Progressive Response to Rick Santorum and the Religious Right
- GOP's Limp Response to Limbaugh May Hurt in November
- Lux: Populist Women Leading Dems in 2012
- Key Civil Right: Union Membership
- Berman: Obama Gaining with White Workers
- Dems Hope to Flip Five Senate Seats
- Teixeira: Obama on Track to Match 'O8 Numbers
- Political Strategy Notes
- Has Romney Finally Put Republican Elites At Ease?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Says Tax Rich, Cut Military Spending
- Political Strategy Notes
- Chait: Republican Majority a Rapidly-Fading Dream
- No Enemies to the Right: The Defining Element of the GOP Primaries
- There is a disturbing new trend in Republican and conservative rhetoric-- describing opposition that is entirely legal, legitimate and democratic as "bullying" "intimidation" "totalitarianism" "thuggery" and "attacks on democracy."
- Obama's Apology Serves American Ideals, Protects Our Troops
- CA Key to Dem Hopes for House Majority
- New D-Corps polling: Some Democratic messages are on target, others miss what's really happening. The on-target messages set up an effective electoral choice but the off-target ones could give the GOP a chance to challenge the President's economic record.
- Do "Liberal Party Activists" Control Democratic Party?
- Is 'Border' GOP Dog-Whistle for Latino-Bashing?
- Santorum's Gamble Reveals Huge Blind Spot
- A Republican Blasts Santorum's Homophobia
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Opposes Conservatives on Contraception
- Political Strategy Notes
- Tomasky: No GOP 'Saviors' in Sight
- Watching Tom Friedman argue with himself about the "false equivalency" between Dems and the GOP and the need for a third party is like watching Gollum and Smegal arguing in "Lord of the Rings." I'm not kidding, just listen to him. It's spooky.
- Political Strategy Notes
- Right-to-Work Laws and Working-Class Voters: Another Teachable Moment
- Does the "Catholic Vote" Really Exist?
- Creamer: GOP Courts Disaster with War on Birth Control
- GOP Re-Energizes Labor Movement --- for Democrats
- Rick Santorum is an MBA, fancy lawyer, politician and slimy lobbyist. His parents were a clinical psychologist and administrative nurse. He is no more authentically "blue collar" than he is Chinese. Why does the press repeat this stupid, nonsensical claim
- Latest Democracy Corps Polling: Democrats consolidate progressive base while Republicans in deepening trouble
- Kos:The Death of the Republican Dog Whistle
- Jonathan Chait captures the essence of the GOP race
- The Anti-Kinder Gentler
- Obama's recent State of the Union speech can provide a solution to progressives' most difficult dilemma in the 2012 election - how to combine legitimate criticism of Obama with active, passionate opposition to Republican extremism.
- Political Strategy Notes
- Third Party Not a Big Threat to Dems
- Brownstein: Polls Give Obama Edge, Romney Worries
- Gauging Candidate 'Likeability' an Elusive Challenge
- How Long Can the Santorum Surge Last?
- Obama, the Super-PACs and the Future of U.S. Democracy
- Political Strategy Notes
- Mitt's Attack Ads, Big Bucks to Flood MI, AZ
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why Obama Would Be Glad If the Culture War Is a Major Election Issue
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public, GOP at Odds Over Obama's SOTU Proposals
- Obama Should Honor Works of Faith
- Battleground Snapshot Gives Slight Edge to Obama
- Hey, Dems: here's an encouraging sign. The New York Times' Thomas Friedman -- leading MSM promoter of the "False equivalency" notion -- has now stood up and clearly said that Republican extremism is the problem.
- Bill Maher reveals the key Republican strategy for 2012
- CPAC Features White Supremacist, Republicans Silent
- New GQRR-Third Way Study: Moving Clean Energy to the Center -- Insights from Swing Voters in the Midwest and South
- The Romney Routs
- Political Strategy Notes
- Brokered Convention: It So Ain't Happening'
- Santorum's Fat Tuesday Spells Trouble for GOP
- Enough Already with the 'Independent Voters' B.S.
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Economic Reports on Which the Fate of Obama's Presidency Rests
- Obama Coalition Regathering
- Political Strategy Notes
- GOP Redistricting Resegregates the South
- Creamer: Good News on Jobs Makes for Bad Day for GOP
- Election Integrity Under Seige
- Romney's Agenda Leaves No Room for 'Moving to the Center'
- ALEC Puppet's Whoopsey-Daisy
- Jobs-Elections Connection Coming Into Focus
- Marshall: Obstacle Course--Obama and the 2012 Electoral Landscape
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Strategy Memo: After the primaries Democrats will be on receiving end of a propaganda campaign of a scope and ferocity unparalleled in American history. Dems must anticipate this onslaught and begin now to plan how best to respond.
- Time to Factor Out Newt from Dem Strategy?
- The Zombie Candidate: What Newt's Campaign Looks Like Going Forward
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Warning To Democrats: Romney Is a Stronger Candidate Than You Think
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Character, Values Concerns May Sink GOP Nominee
- Is this the most patently false, biased and dishonest headline the Washington Post has ever run?
- Edsall: Newt's Desperation Shows Fragility of GOP Coalition
- MSM Lightweights Give GOP Field Free Ride on Key FL Issues
- Kos campaign director Chris Bowers and People for the American Way launch petition drive to investigate O'Keefe voting fraud
- John Nichols: Wisconsin Recall More Popular Than Republican Primaries
- Reich: No Newt is Good Newt
- Why Gingrich Supporters Think He's Electable
- There's a big gap between American attitudes toward "income inequality" and "unfairness." Americans don't want the government to "redistribute income," they want it to stop favoring the wealthy and powerful and to make them pay their fair share.
- Note To Readers
- Political Strategy Notes
- Democracy Corps Dial Testing: President Obama Scores With Middle Class Message -- But Voters Skeptical That Washington, Including President, Can Actually Get Things Done
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: An Analysis of President Obama's Speech
- Sullivan's 'Obama's Long Game' Article Rattles GOP
- Political Strategy Notes
- Zombie Bait
- Teixeira: Latino Vote Key to 2012 Outcome
- Polls, Debates and the Instability of Public Opinion in the GOP Presidential Contest
- New D-Corps Memo: Presidential Primary Contest and Pre-Christmas Showdown Put Republicans At Risk
- Who Will Win the Blue Collar Bowl?
- Another Premature Obituary For the Christian Right
- Political Strategy Notes
- Bain Capital Spells Big Trouble for GOP
- When GOP Memes Seep into MSM Political Reporting
- Political Strategy Notes
- MLK and the Republicans
- Sorting Out Cause and Effect in South Carolina
- Conservative claims of vote fraud have just become vastly more sinister. Activists have committed criminal vote fraud to "prove it's possible." The next logical step will be to commit fraud, blame Dems and use the fraud to try and overturn elections.
- Safety Net, America's Soul Endangered by Romney's Pandering
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why Romney's Bain Problem Could Kill His Candidacy
- Political Strategy Notes
- GOP's Hispanic Problem: It Hasn't Gone Away
- "When Mitt Romney Came To Town"
- Romney's Extremist Agenda Often Overlooked
- Mitt's Post-NH Challenge: Preventing His GOP Friends From Going Medieval On Him
- Political Strategy Notes
- The Bain Opportunity
- Some Conservatives Already Quietly Surrendering to Romney
- Santorum's Dubious Working-Class Creds
- No 'Enthusiasm Gap' With Key Obama Constituencies
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Conservative Republicans' Failure to Stick With A Candidate
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Iowa Vote Bad News for GOP
- Getting To Know Ricky Santorum
- Romney Gets All Three "Tickets Out Of Iowa"
- The Many Accidents That Will Probably Produce Romney's "Inevitable" Nomination
- Political Strategy Notes
- The Flawed 'Book' on the GOP's Strategy vs. Obama
- Top 19 David Brooks False Equivalencies of 2011
- DCorps: Dems Must Exploit GOP Weakness in Battleground
- Political Strategy Notes
- Abramowitz: Don't Bet on 'Triple Flip' Election
- Teixeira: 'Generational Pincer Movement' Key for Obama Win
- We said it first here - well OK, maybe not first, but pretty darn early
- Political Strategy Notes
- GOP's Payroll Tax Cut Debacle Helps Dems With Moderates
- Democracy Corps: Exploiting Republican Weakness in the Battleground
- Creamer: GOP Cave on Payroll Tax May Signal Turning Point
- Th Right Falters in Iowa
- Here's TAP Co-Editor Bob Kuttner's diagnosis of Americans Elect: "a wrongheaded ideology, married to a misguided diagnosis of what ails America, yoked to a perverse politics. Just what you'd expect of hedge-fund billionaires meddling in electoral reform."
- Political Strategy Notes
- Re-Messaging HCR Mandate Wins Public Support
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Medicare and Social Security Still Off Limits
- How the GOP Met Ron Paul More Than Halfway
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Growth and Opportunity, Not Inequality, Best Obama Message for 2012
- Close, Fierce Race Ahead Regardless of GOP Nominee
- Needed: More 99 Percenter Candidates
- Public Doesn't Buy 'False Equivalency' in Blame for Economy, Gridlock
- Seven Key Facts Ignored By Media to Determine Iowa Caucuses
- Roberts Court Thwarts Economic Fairness
- Like Negotiating With Toddlers in Mid-Tantrum
- Political Strategy Notes
- The GOP Establishment Hates Newt. He's Going to Win Anyway
- A Refresher Course on Unions
- Political Strategy Notes
- GOP Still Clueless About Resentment of Inequality
- Tea Party = GOP Key to Democratic Victory?
- Dems Have 'Real Shot' at Winning Back House
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Favors Fair Payroll Tax
- New DCorps Study: GOP Incumbents Out of Touch, Increasingly Vulnerable
- ALEC Expose a Must-Read
- Not All Presidential Templates Are Transferable
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: More Say Keep or Expand HCR
- Political Strategy Notes
- Iowa Still Rules GOP Primaries
- Tomasky: KS Speech Backs GOP into Corner
- Sargent: Obama Speech a Game-Changer
- Kuttner: How Unions Serve Members, Influence Political Change
- Political Strategy Notes
- Democrats: all of a sudden a new breed of non-Democratic "moderates" and "centrists" are popping up like mushrooms. Here's an ironclad way to smoke out the phony crypto-Republican shills and double-talking sanctimonious hypocrites hiding among them.
- Creamer: New Clown Leading GOP Circus
- Jobless Trendline Improving
- Obama Campaign Not Abandoning Blue Collar Voters
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Slice the Demographics Any Way You Want, But Obama Is In Trouble
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: GOP Likely to Cave to Dems on Payroll Tax Holiday
- Redistricting Debacle Dumps Dem Warhorse
- All Together Now: A Vote Is A Vote
- The Immigration Issue Strikes Again
- Political Strategy Notes
- DNC Gets Medieval on Mitt: Too Early or Right on Time?
- Edsall: Dems Look to New Coalition for '12 Victory
- Paul's Isolationism Wins Supporters, Despite Crazy Policies
- Fantasy-Exploding Time Saver
- Saturation Ad Sites
- Political Strategy Notes - Thanksgiving Edition
- Brownstein: Teixeira/Halpin Study A Blueprint for 2012
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: What Does the Super Committee's Failure Mean For Obama's Reelection Campaign?
- The Only Way to End Gridlock in Washington Is for Obama to Run a Negative Campaign
- Tomasky: Obama's Best Strategy for 270 Electoral Votes Now Clear
- Anti-Immigration Chickens Come Home To Roost
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Dems On 'High Political Ground' Post Super Committee
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Millennials Still Progressive
- Walker Recall Movement Already Rolling Strong
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Biggest What-If Hovering Over Obama's Presidency
- How N. Europe Exposes GOP Tax Policy Lies
- How Iowa's Social Conservatives Lost Their Influence
- The Civil Rights Movement's success was based on a coordinated three-prong strategy of civil disobedience, grass-roots organizing and mass boycotts. To achieve similar victories, a national "We are the 99%" movement must adopt and apply that same approach
- Democratic Strategy Notes
- Walker Recall has 58% Support, Voter Suppression Underway
- Why Newt is Romney's Dream Opponent
- Silver Sheds Light on Uses, Limitations of Political Forecasting
- Will Jobs Loss in GA help Dems?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants More Wealth-Sharing
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Forget the 2008 Map: A New Poll Shows Why Obama's Re-Election Is Riding On Ohio
- High Court to Rule on HCR Law as Public Support Rises
- Walker Recall Campaign Ready to Launch
- It's No Accident That the Tea Party's Presidential Candidates Keep Flaming Out
- Ohio Lessons Can Help Obama Win Working Class Votes
- Latest survey from GQRR and Democracy Corps
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Brand of Conservatism That Will Win (and the One That Will Fail) in 2012
- What Exactly Makes a Candidate 'Serious,' Anyway?
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Progressive Victories Hold Lessons for 2012
- Arizona Trending Blue
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Obama's 2008 Coalition Won't Save Him This Time
- Union-Busters Stomped in Ohio, Despite Dirty Tricks
- Somebody Has To Win, Part 2
- Political Strategy Notes
- Progressives: let's not lose perspective. Occupy Wall Street is indeed very popular, but not as wildly popular as recent polling makes it seem. The polls provide a basis for realistic optimism but not for euphoria or premature declarations of victory.
- How the Right Exploits Racial, Class Divide in 'Politics of Austerity'
- Galston: Mandatory Voting Needed
- Why Romney Should Go for the Kill in Iowa
- How Obama Strategy May Work, Despite Polls, Economy
- Somebody Has to Win
- Political Strategy Notes
- An Occupy Wall Street Message that Could Resonate with a Majority
- Thoughtful Perspectives on OWS in TNR Roundtable
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Two New Polls Show Why 2012 Will Be an Ugly Election
- Political Strategy Notes
- How Cain's Sex Scandal Could Actually Help His Candidacy
- The Gingrich Campaign's Strange Indian Summer
- Another Reason Dems Should Join Credit Unions
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Fair Economy
- Warren's Senate Bid Taps Populist Tide
- Rick Perry's Rightward Path to Recovery
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: 2012 Will Be a Referendum on Obama, Whether He Likes It or Not
- Why Immigration Won't Go Away As An Issue in 2012
- Political Strategy Notes
- Wake up, commentators. The most dangerous group of "right-wing extremists" today is not the grass-roots tea party. It is the financial and ideological leaders in the Republican coalition who have embraced the extremist philosophy of "politics as warfare."
- Time for OWS to Switch Tactics?
- Political Strategy Notes
- Bad Timing: Herman Cain's Abortion Gaffe
- How the West Can Be Won
- A Response to Deficit Hawk Fear-Mongering
- Dems Face Uphill Battle to Win Back House
- Sargent: Most Blue Collar Whites Like OWS
- Why A Dark Horse Candidate Could Still Take Iowa
- Creamer: Why Dem Strategists Want Romney
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How Democrats Can Make Common Cause with Occupy Wall Street
- Challenging the GOP's Juggernaut Coalition
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Warms to OWS Protests
- Yglesias: Campaign Finance Reform Plan Has Merit, Needs Tweaking
- Political Strategy Notes
- Nate Silver: OWS Nation-wide, Strong in Western U.S.
- Dems, Watch Out: Right-wing "Covert Ops" Thugs Want to Discredit You
- Reign of the Regressives Coming to a Close?
- 'Liberal Media' Myth Shredded...Again
- Will Conservatives Pick Perry or Cain to Block Romney?
- New National Journal Poll: Public Divided on Obama, Down on GOP
- Political Strategy Notes
- Creamer: Why OWS Scares The Right
- The Battle of Ohio
- TDS Co-Editor Stan Greenberg: Dem Votes Against Jobs Act Can Backfire
- Political Strategy Notes
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How George Will Misunderstands Both Elizabeth Warren and Liberalism
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants to Pass Jobs Bill, Tax Rich
- Wheels Within Wheels at Value Voters Summit
- Economic Indicator Can Help Shape Political Strategy
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How Congress's Showdown With China Puts Obama in a Serious Bind
- Rick Perry's Tea Party Problem
- Limitations of the 'Do Nothing Congress' Meme
- Progressives: there are two profoundly condescending assumptions that will inevitably undermine all attempts to build an independent social movement that reaches ordinary Americans. Democracy Corps' new methodology points the way to a superior approach.
- The Democratic Strategist Interviews Erica Seifert, Lead Analyst, Democracy Corps.
- Political Strategy Notes
- Needed: Wall St. Protest Focus on Money-in-Politics Reforms
- The Truth About Voter Suppression
- Sour Attitude Toward Congress a Boon for Dems?
- Could This Be Sarah Palin's Moment?
- Political Strategy Notes
- Can the "Race Card" Save Rick Perry?
- Can Progressives Serve Tea?
- Has the GOP's Southern Hustle Peaked?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Says Immigration Good for U.S.
- Chaos Week For the "Daddy Party"
- Herman Cain: Man with the Plan
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why the Electoral College Won't Help Obama
- Latino Voters Increase in Key Swing States
- Christie, Obama and "Class Warfare"
- The Agony of GOP Elites
- Political Strategy Notes
- Will Christie Stoop to Conquer?
- GOP on Track to Deepen Latino Vote Loss in 2012
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Obama Jobs Plan Has Strong Public Support
- No Obama "Tilt to the Left"
- Greenberg on Independents
- Political Strategy Notes
- Tomasky: Find Common Ground Shared by Base, Independents
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Left Behind: How Democrats Are Losing the Political Center
- Can Labor Leverage 'Citizens United' Ruling?
- Progressive Dems Can Have More Impact
- Is There Any Way Republicans Can Convince the Country That They Are Moderates?
- The Explosive Republican-Obama Battleground
- Needed: An 'American Jobs Movement'
- Friday Strategy Bites
- Do They Hate Crackers in New Hampshire?
- State Dem/GOP Leanings Don't Depend on Jobless Rates
- Elizabeth Warren on Fair Taxes, Social Contract
- Democrats: the major reason why it's so hard to get support for job creation is because business and mainstream economists - who both backed Keynesian policies in the 50's and 60's - now oppose them. No serious Democratic strategy can ignore this reality.
- The Florida Gauntlet
- Dem Breakthrough in FL?
- Conservative Word Games Manipulate Immigration Debate
- Imaginary "Centrists"
- Creamer: 'Class Warfare' Long Waged by GOP
- Citizens United Ruling Has Upside for Dems
- 'GOP' Means...What?
- Five Things All the GOP Candidates Agree On. (They're Terrifying.)
- Calling All Progressive Dems: A Time to Fight
- Obama and the Jewish Vote
- Dem Goal for 2012: Bust Some GOP Trifectas
- Coalitions Forming to Fight War on Voting
- Carville: 'Fire, Indict Fight !'
- Beyond the "Invisible Primary"
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Is Romney Pandering with his Hard-Line Stance on China? Or Is He Onto Something?
- Will GOP's PA Coup Backfire?
- Rick Perry Has a Problem on Social Security--With the Tea Party
- Warren's Candidacy: A New Era for Dems?
- Silver: Two Elections 'Ominous' for Dems
- Base Debate
- Brownstein: Obama's Job-Creation Ideas More Popular Than Those of GOP
- CNN-Tea Party Partnership an Unsavory Mix?
- "It's Not an Entitlement--It's Ours"
- Teixeira: Public Likes American Jobs Act Provisions
- Sabato: Obama's 2012 Hopes Hinge on 7 Swing States
- The Jobs Speech and a Democratic Opportunity
- Creamer: Obama Jobs Plan Seizes High Ground
- The Referendum on the New Deal and Great Society
- Tonight's GOP Debate: On the Attack?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Jobs Trump Medicare, Social Security 'Reform'
- Dawn of the Deniers
- Out of the Frying Pan
- Labor Troubador Inspires WI Workers to Keep Strong
- Political Warfare Over Voter I.D. Laws Escalates
- Wisconsin Uprising Still Key to Dems '12 Hopes
- Gallup: Public Image of Unions in Flux
- Measures of Worker Discontent Offer Clues for Dems
- The Inquisition
- Republican War on Voting Exposed in Rolling Stone
- Need Fries With That Nothingburger?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Memo to Mitt Romney: You Have to Attack Rick Perry, and Here's How to Do It
- Yglesias: Actual Job-Creation Trumps Speech Rhetoric
- Tea Party Disarray
- Towards a Louder Labor Day
- God and the Founders Said So!
- Perry's Immigration Problem
- Republican "Jobs" Philosophy In a Nutshell
- Duke Study Shows Confusion About Wealth Distribution
- New Model, Old Coalition
- The Inside Dumb on Rick Perry
- Jesse Jackson on the Political Strategy of Martin Luther King:
- Why Romney Needs a New Strategy
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Will Obama Ever Say What He Should About the Jobs Crisis?
- Worlds Colliding
- How the Working Poor Became the New Welfare Queens
- Creating a New Economic Narrative
- Gallup General Election Poll: Everybody's Even!
- History in Mississippi
- Outsider Insiders
- Phantom Insurgency
- All Shook Up
- Fairness Doctrine Conspiracy Defeated!
- What You See Is What You Get
- Are "Right-Center" or "Insurgent-Establishment" Distinctions Useful For Today's Republicans?
- "Be Not Afraid of Evangelicals" - Be afraid of Washington Post columnists who use logic every bit as tortured as Glen Beck's to imply that critics of Bachmann and Perry's extremist beliefs are unfair and biased against all Christians and Evangelicals
- GOP Escalates Voter Suppression in Ohio
- Obama's Personal Favorability Cushion
- Inspired Headline
- Battle of Ohio: Facing Referendum, Republicans Now Want to Compromise
- Try "Colonel," Dr. Bachmann
- A New Economic Strategy for President Obama
- A Paul Ryan Campaign? Really?
- How Do We Actually Know Rick Perry is Electable?
- The Ron Paul Pity Party
- Dems Win Final Two Wisconsin Recall Elections
- 81% Approval Rating Is Not A Political Crisis
- The One Tax Increase Conservatives Will Support
- Pull Yourself Together, DC! Perrymania Is Overrated
- Beyond the Bully Pulpit: Deploying Other Progressive Assets For a Jobs Effort
- And Then There Were Three
- WSJ: Even Conservatives May Balk at Perry's 'Crony Capitalism'
- Protest Needed to Enforce Full Employment Laws
- Far Afield
- Why Pawlenty and Bachmann Both Need a Win in Ames
- New Gallup Poll: Dems Up, Tea Party Down
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Four Actions the Global Community Must Take to Avoid Another Depression
- The Bully Pulpit - a Rejoinder by James Vega
- A Bully Pulpit Must Sound A Call To Action: A Reply to James Vega
- Progressives, let's face the fact: the "bully pulpit" is not a magic wand. It's time to stop reciting those two words as if they were a magical incantation that can transform public opinion.
- Why Wisconsin Recall Vote Is a Big Win for Dems
- How Rick Perry Became the GOP's Unity Candidate
- Democrats: Ignore the damn conservative spin. Last November no-one thought a single Wisconsin state senator could be successfully recalled. Yesterday we bagged two of 'em. That's a win, not a loss.
- So Close
- GOP Spin on Tea Party Downgrade Not Working
- All Eyes on Wisconsin
- A Slap in the Face to Iowa Republicans!
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Obama State-by-State
- The Pre-History of Anti-Kenysianism
- Rick Perry's Houston Dog Whistle
- Keynes Is Dead, Just When We Need Him
- It Ain't the Execution, It's the Strategy
- "Towering Wave of Alienation"
- Keynsian Markets
- Bowers: Dems' Message Must Confront Class Injustice
- Control Freaks
- The Debt Deal Makes It Nearly Impossible for the GOP Nominee to Pivot to the Center
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Obama's Unhealthy Obsession With Independents
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The White House's Three Biggest Blunders in the Debt Limit Fight
- Go Figure
- Silver: Obama's Negotiations 'Pretty Bad,' Not 'Terrible'
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Says Medicare Cuts Off Table
- GOP Voter Disinformation Campaign Underway in Wisconsin?
- Bachmann and Paul Call the Shots
- The "Deal" In Context
- Greenberg: How Dems Can Regain Public Support
- Boehner's Myopia Escalates Threat to U.S. Economic Security
- Independent Voters Flee Boehner, Congressional GOP
- Perry Gets Back In Line On Gay Marriage
- Economy of Effort
- Krugman's Smackdown of MSM Groveling to GOP 'Extortion'
- The Shifting GOP Nominating Calendar Will Produce a Knockout Victory--Or an Extended Slugfest
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Debt Debate is Man-Made Chicanery. Our Stalled Economic Recovery Is Real.
- Obama's Re-election Strategy and the Democratic Left
- WI Gov Shuts Down DMV Offices -- In Dem Districts
- GOP Voter Suppression Scams Spreading Fast
- Yes, Some Conservatives Actually Think We'd Be Better Off Without a Debt Ceiling Deal
- Centrist Compromiser Vs. Obstructionist Ideologues
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: GOP Ideologues Head South in Public Opinion
- Pope Erick's Bull
- Schmitt: Tax Reform Must Reduce Income Inequality
- Dems Should Flip the 'Job-Killer' Meme
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why a New Poll in Ohio Spells Trouble for Obama in 2012
- Capping Spending As the Population Ages
- Debt Default and Public Opinion
- Voters With Disabilities -- A Growing Political Force
- Unemployment: The Broader Context
- Balanced Budget Shenanigans
- Michele Bachman's Very Rough Road Ahead
- Reagan Without Tears -- or Illusions
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Three Ways Obama Can Fix the Housing Crisis
- How the 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' Bill Could Sabotage a Debt Ceiling Deal
- Leveraging Word Choice in Pre-Election Surveys
- Dems Win a Big One in Wisconsin
- Bachmann Agonistes
- Good Money After Bad
- P.R. Campaign Needed to Check Government-Bashing
- Going Down to the Bottom of the Base
- Week of the Locusts
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Jobs, Not Debt Top Public Priority
- CBS News Poll: 71% Dissaprove of GOP Role in Debt Ceiling Negotiations
- Scratch 'Entitlement' from Dem Vocabulary
- Just How Miserably Hard Would It Be for a Republican President To Govern?
- Quinnipiac University Poll: GOP Losing Blame Game
- Does GOP Turmoil Give Dems Edge in Battle for House Control?
- A Tax Hike by Any Other Name
- New Gallup Poll: Dems Solid with Public on Deficit, Taxes
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: What if the Right and the Left Are Both Wrong About Why the Economic Recovery Is So Slow? A New Theory.
- Dodging a Bullet In California
- Abramowitz to Pundits: Get Real About 'Independent Voters'
- Needed: Apps for Dems
- Bowers: concentrate progressive resources on strategic elections
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Opposes Cuts in Key Entitlements
- 'Teavangelicals': How the Christian Right Came to Bless the Economic Agenda of the Tea Party
- Is GOP Economic Brinksmanship Wearing Thin?
- 'Bully Pulpit' Still Potent, But Trickier
- The Candidate "Pledge" To End All Pledges
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why Obama Should Seek An Interim Agreement on the Debt Ceiling
- Silver: Conservative Domination of GOP Verified by Data
- Bowers: Dems Have Cash Edge in WI Recall
- The GOP Feedback Loop
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Action on Housing
- What Do Conservatives Really Want? And Does It Really Matter?
- GOP Disarray On "Repeal and Replace"
- How the Boycott Dumped Beck
- Brooks a Mine Canary?
- Is the GOP Bound for 'Political Jonestown'?
- The Hidden Meaning Behind Michele Bachmann's "Constitutional Conservatism"
- Truths Not So Self-Evident
- A Sad Irony on the Fourth of July
- Bowers: Time Still Right for Wisconsin Recall Donations
- Unhappy Fiscal New Year
- The Real Problem With Mark Halperin
- 'We Are Ohio' Forces Referendum on GOP Union-Busting
- Rick Perry's Texas Problem
- The Evidence-Free Hypothesis of Jews Abandoning Obama
- Counter-Punching On Taxes
- Tweaking Obama's Message Strategy for '12
- How Dems Can Leverage Social Media for Electoral Gains
- New Tools for Old School
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Jonathan Pollard--What Precepts of Decency Does our State Owe its Prisoners?
- Can Michele Bachmann Survive Being Taken Seriously?
- Obama's Sweet Spot
- Dems Must Dramatize GOP Jobs Blockade
- Bachmann Up, T-Paw Down
- Tim Pawlenty: Why It's Way Too Soon To Count Him Out
- Romney Leads With Chin on Jobs
- Oh, Shut Up, Karl!
- Don't Expect Republicans To Choose Electability Over Ideology
- Imprisoned by a Budget Crisis
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Majority Favors Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
- Cut, Cap, Balance: Zero To Do With Deficits
- Democrats: Here's a sound-bite that explains the Republican "RyanCare" plan in two sentences - and then demolishes it in ten words.
- A Product With No Demand
- The New Abortion Litmus Test
- Huntsman's Scenario More of a Guantlet
- GOP Immigration 'Reform' Rotting Crops, Endangering Farms
- Teixeira on Obama's White Working Class Threshold
- Rick Perry: Why He's Not the Man to Save the GOP
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why the U.S. Can't Make Peace in the Middle East
- Unemployment Up in Only Four States, Down in Nearly Half
- Democrats: Hang on a minute about those "anti-Keynesian" voters. There is indeed a large group who can accurately be described that way but they are not a "majority" and Democrats can still reach them - but not by repeating the traditional clichés
- Familiarity Breeds Contempt
- Germany's 'Secret' Holds Lesson for Democrats
- Hot August Days
- Bachmann's Radical Roots
- When the Center Has Finished Shifting, It Gets Quiet
- The New Hampshire Debate: Is This the Most Homogeneous GOP Field Ever?
- Hem-Haw Tim-Paw Tanks
- California Redistricting: Good for Donkey Party, If Not Always Donkey Pols
- "ObamneyCare" and Its Implications
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Deficit Reduction Done Right
- Krugman: Ignore Bad Ideas of Myopic Medicare Critics
- Here Comes the Perry Boomlet
- GOP Soft on Terrorism
- Kicking the Unemployed When They Are Down
- Newt Abandoned By Cowardly Sheep
- Rudy Will Fail Again
- Obama's 2012 Map
- Quietly Running for President
- Those Wonky Democrats
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Conservatives 'Delusional' About Vouchercare
- T-Paw's Silly Substance
- Why the Faltering Economy Won't Help Mitt Romney
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Forward Thinking
- Republican "Vouchercare" versus Democratic "Medicare" - Paul Krugman's devastatingly accurate distinction that every Democrat should use and repeat at every possible opportunity
- GOP Escalates War on Early Voting
- The Cain Train
- Dem Challenge: Elusive Jobs-Votes Connection
- Mitt Romney the Throwback
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Against Ending Medicaid Too
- Candidate Vetting Yesterday and Today
- Un-Scandalous
- DeMint? I'm Down With That!
- Creamer: GOP Medicare Privatization Scheme Gives Dems Momentum
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Joint Effort
- TDS Strategy Memo:Why can't the Dems make jobs a winning political issue? It seems like it should be a "slam dunk" but it's not. Here's why
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Public Good
- The Ultimate Proof That Early National Primary Polls Don't Matter
- Memorial Day
- Buyers' Remorse Summary
- GOP Immigration Policy = Labor Shortages + Rotting Crops
- Bad Day For Bachmann
- DCorps: New York's 26th Not Alone -- Alert Based on New National Survey
- Rome and Rand
- Let's Compromise: Do It Our Way!
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Road Block
- Florida's Latino Mix Offers Opportunity for Dems
- Sarah Palin, the Movie
- More 'Buyers Remorse' Re Votes for GOP Candidates
- Special Lesson in New York
- Don't Draft Rick Perry
- Another Silly Season
- The Debt Ceiling and Hostage-Taking
- Mellman: How Dems Can Shred GOP Deficit, Medicare Plans
- Abramowitz: How Partisanship, Ideology and Race Influence Attitudes Toward Obama
- Creamer: GOP Split Gives Dems Wedge
- Daniels Out: Now What For the Gravitas Lobby?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: OH Voters Want Repeal of Bargaining Limits
- Waiting for the Apocalypse
- Where The Evangelicals Are
- Brazile: GOP Voter Suppression In High Gear
- Goodwin Liu, and So's Your Old Man!
- T-Paw and the Teavangelicals
- Masterpiece of Unintentional Humor
- California Special Election Jungle
- Who Will Be 'The Infrastructure President'?
- Late-Term Providers and the Abortion Battle
- Worst Presidential Launch Ever!
- The GOP's Medicare Mess
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants to Tax Rich, Protect Entitlements
- OBL and the Republican National Security Critique
- After Madison: How Dems Can Mobilize Working-Class Anger
- Without Huck
- Romney Losing Republican Elites
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Soak the Almost Rich
- GQR Report: Voters Want to End Big Oil Subsidies
- Deficits Still Don't Matter to Republicans
- New Poll Suggests 2012 Strategy for Obama, Dems
- Capitalist Subsidies for Secular Humanism
- Jobs Anyone?
- Another Reboot from Romney
- The New(t) Nixon
- GOP Debt Limit Brinkmanship Intensifies
- Political Case for Afganistan Drawdown Coming Into Focus
- Mitch Daniels and the Gravitas Lobby, Part Two
- Mitch Daniels and the Gravitas Lobby
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Supports Alternative Energy, Citizenship Path
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Survey Says
- How Unions Can Grow, Help Dems
- Better News On Redistricting
- GOP Contenders Beware: If Mike Huckabee Runs, He'll Have a Real Chance
- Pew's New Typology
- Killing Bin Laden Won't Rid the U.S. of Paranoid Politics
- FL GOP War Vs. Dem Voters Intensifies
- Everything Matters
- A "common-sense populist" solution to the deficit - let the American people decide what to do.
- First Bounce
- New Paradigm in Canada
- After the "Welcome Surprise"
- No More Mr. Naive
- Bin Laden's End Strengthens Obama, Dems
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Jobs Still Top Priority
- Meanwhile, Up North, A Surge For the Left
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Gang Politics
- Help Is Not On the Way
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Ask Not
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Poll Shows 'Massive Opposition' to Medicare Cuts, Vouchers
- Trumping the Birthers
- Polling Private Ryan
- Whack-A-Mole
- The Conservative Establishment Says: "Save Us, Mitch Daniels!"
- Do Dems Need a New Pitch for the White Working-Class?
- History of the "Mendocracy"
- Is Newt Gingrich Southern?
- Bye Bye Barbour, Hello Daniels?
- No Gold For "Atlas Shrugged" Flick
- Bowers: WI Recall Volunteers Leading Dems, Deserve Thanks
- It's time to tell the truth about Paul Ryan. His personal philosophy says working people are stupid, bloodsucking parasites and the Sermon on the Mount a pile of soft-headed, do-gooder crap. No, that's not an exaggeration. That's really what he believes.
- Multinational Corporations and the Race to the Bottom
- Unhappy Earth Day
- Protest Song Has Echoes for 2011
- Why Budget Line Items Don't Die
- Mike Huckabee and the P-Word
- The Caucus Within the Caucuses
- Obama has made strategic mistakes, but waiting until the Republicans revealed their extremist agenda before presenting his own more rational alternative was not one of them.
- The GOP Establishment's Futile Battle Against Donald Trump
- Fred Fires Back
- Can Dems Retake the House?
- Just What the 2012 Field Needed: Roy Moore!
- Tea Partiers Against Deficit Reduction
- Dionne On the Anti-Social Rich
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Conservative Budget Unpopular
- Creamer: Obama's Budget Strategy Paying Off
- Trump Card
- Bowers on 'The Peoples' Budget
- The Fred Thompson Effect
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Running Man
- Obama's Liberal Base Problem Exaggerated?
- Obama's Speech and Democratic Discontents
- Waiting For Mitt to Fall
- Double Talk On Taxes
- Waste Is A Terrible Thing To Mind: Regaining Public Trust By Rethinking Government Spending
- CNN Poll: Obama, Dems Have Edge with Public in Budget Deal
- SoCal Crucible
- Creamer: GOP Leverage on Debt Freeze Damaged by Deal
- The Spirit of Compromise
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Deficit Hawk's Case Against Paul Ryan
- Time Enough For Counting When the Dealing's Done
- House GOP Not Extreme Enough For King, Bachmann and Paul
- Shutdown Not Old News Outside DC
- The Shutdown's Not About the Money, Either
- Analyzing the 2012 Republican Primary Schedule
- Abramowitz: Declining Influence of Union Voters Challenges Dems
- The Republican "Covenant Marriage" with the Right Goes Public
- Are Republicans Losing Control of the "Shutdown" Spin?
- Ryan's Budget and the Impending Government Shutdown
- The Far Shores of Conservatism
- Ryan Proposes End to Great Society (Except for the War Part)
- Presidential Re-Elects: No, You Can't Feel the Excitement
- Immigration Foes Want Some More Crazy
- 'We Are One' Demos Honor MLK, Public Workers with 1000+ Events Today
- Demographic Change and 2012
- Get Ready For the Real Budget Debate
- Brave New Race for Mitt
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Obama's Best Move
- Why the Anti-Choicers Trust T-Paw
- Betrayal!
- DCorps: GOP Budget Cuts Backfiring in Swing Districts
- Creamer: Fight Cuts in Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Gay Marriage Gains Support
- Obama on Libya: A Calculus, Not a Doctrine
- Eve of Destruction
- RIP Geraldine Ferraro
- An Opportunity To Defend "Government Schools"
- New Kaiser Poll Shreds GOP HCR Myths
- Tim Pawlenty, Wizard of Oz
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Necessary and Sufficient
- Two Notable Flip-Flops
- Republican Class War Gets Cultural
- Two Bits of Unconventional Wisdom
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Public Ignorance and the Coming Budget Emergency
- Attitudes Toward Nuclear Power: Between Chicken Little and the Ostrich
- Republicans By the Book
- New DCorps Poll: GOP House Majority in Jeopardy
- Haley Barbour To Make "Race Speech"?
- 'Slow Warming' Toward Obama in New Poll
- Obama's Big Budget Chip
- Bipartisanship When Fighting Breaks Out? Not This Time.
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why Obama Needs Those Free-Trade Deals
- Repeat After Me: It's Not About the Money!
- Hee Haw, Indeed
- Trust, Accountability and Self-Government: A Summary of the Demos-TDS Forum
- '...And A Battle We Need to Win'
- Don't Underestimate Michele Bachmann
- A "common-sense populist" Democratic Communication Strategy for Re-building Public Trust in Government.
- The Intra-Conservative Defense Spending Battle Begins
- Yet Another Bogus Public Employee Horror Story
- April 4: We Are One
- If You Want Citizens to Trust Government, Empower Them to Govern
- Delusions
- Bowers: Wisconsin Recall Drive Rolling Fast
- Government As a Battleground In a War Over Resources
- Wisconsin Protest Turnout Matches or Exceeds All Tea Party Demos
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wary of Spending Cuts, Govt Shutdown
- Build Trust By Fighting Corruption
- GOP 2011-12 Agenda: Union and Voter Suppression
- Public Distrust of Government in an Age of Market Failures
- Wisconsin Protest Shows D.C. Dems Power of Principle
- How To Restore Confidence in Government
- Creamer, Bowers: Disfunctional GOP Strategy A Big Boon for Dems
- Who Won the First Real Contest of the 2012 Election?
- Rebuilding Public Trust in Government: Where We've Been, Where We Are, Where We Need to Go
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Says Protect Collective Bargaining
- Distrust of Government: The Progressive Challenge
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Crisis of Confidence
- All Hail the "Job Creators" and Their Handmaidens!
- Wisconsin's Inspiring Template for Worker Protest and Unity
- Union Busters vs. Voters in Ohio
- Falling Between Two Stools
- Bargain Store Mogul Behind NC's Right Wing Politics
- The GOP Budget Trap in Numbers
- Chameleon
- Return of "Drill, Baby, Drill?"
- A Moment of Clarity on Health Care
- Iowa GOP Focus Group: Palin Not For Real, Mitt Doomed, TimPaw a Snooze
- Tim Pawlenty, Revolutionary
- The "Flexibility" To Abandon the Poor
- Demo Optics, Messaging Enhance Wisconsin Protests
- Walker Tanks in New Poll
- Dixie Madison
- Wisconsin as a Good Thing
- Union Voters Have Clout or How Walker May Win the Battle But Lose the War
- Are Republicans Trying To Hurt the Economy For Political Reasons?
- Ruling Upholding ACA Gets Buried by MSM
- You Can't Create Jobs With Spending Cuts
- Is the Center Still Vital?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Colorado vs. Ohio
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Huge Majority Wants Infrastructure Investment
- Pushing Back Against Hooverism
- The Footloose Presidential Field
- Gallup: Strong Support for Collective Bargaining for Public Employees
- New GQR Polls: Wisconsin Voters Diss Walker's Mess
- Two Down
- A Test of Theories
- Koch Bros Support WI Union-Busting
- Culture Shock
- Leveraging the Latino Vote in '12
- Public Employee Collective Bargaining and State Budgets
- 'Bake Sales Vs. Billionaires'
- Big Deficit Deal?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Making the Cut
- 2012 Calendar: Here We Go Again
- The Next Calvin Coolidge?
- Discordant Voices on Entitlements
- 2012 Head-to-Heads: Not Much Variation, Even in the Bushes
- Turning Off the Internet
- Latest D-Corps Polling Memo - Winning the Budget Debate
- States: Let 'Em Go Bankrupt!
- CPAC Review: False Start and Jockeying for Position
- How Nonviolence Can Inform Democratic Strategy
- Republicans Continue to Repel Latinos
- The Budget Struggle Begins
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Conservative Cuts Unpopular
- From Tucson to Cairo
- Rick Scott, Redistributionist
- Joy In Egypt
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Coming Budget War
- Paulites Run Wild at CPAC
- Abramowitz: Obama Can Win in '12, Close Vote Likely
- Brown's Ad Strategy May Provide Good Template
- What To Look For At the CPAC Meeting
- Webb's Fold Leaves Void
- Requiem for the Democratic Leadership Council
- Veepitude
- Early Odds in Iowa
- Roots of Reaganolatry
- 364 Days Til the Iowa Caucuses
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public, Conservatives at Odds on Cuts
- Entrepreneurial Populism: How Progressives Can Unite with Small Business
- Broder's Favorite Son Fantasy
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: A Letter To Gene Sperling
- When Character Was Not King
- The Tea Party and the Christian Right Redux
- Democrats Should Not Contribute to Budget Gimmickery
- Conservative Fans of Mubarek, Enemies of ElBaradei
- What It Takes To Win a Republican Presidential Nomination
- Beyond Civility: in the 1950's and 60's the modern politics of "talking points", "sound bites" and "message discipline" had different names - "propaganda", "thought control" and "brainwashing" Our standards of political discourse have been deeply degraded
- Prospects Mixed for Conservative High Court Ruling on HCR
- Will the Courts Save Romney on Health Care?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Priorities in Line with SOTU
- Charlotte '12: Less Than Meets the Eye
- If You Think Democrats Are Struggling With Egypt....
- The Latest White Knight On a Dark Horse
- After Egypt: Dems Should Review Human Rights Policy
- Progressive Anxiety On Egypt
- Central eyewitness testimony in last years' New Black Panthers voter intimidation case is literally terrifying and appalling - but not for the reasons you might think.
- Turning the Clock Way Back
- Progressives Voice Concerns About SOTU
- Pence Takes a Powder
- Republicans Bob and Weave on Defense Spending
- Snore or Snare?
- Democracy Corps: Swing voters reaction to Obama's SOTU speech
- "Pro-Business," Anti-GOP
- The Quiet Death of Filibuster Reform
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Support for ACA Repeal Soft
- Rahm and Residency
- Hiding in Plain Sight
- Obama and the CEO Vote
- DCorps/CAF Poll: Jobs Trump Deficit, Spending Concerns
- A Budgetary-Bait-and-Switch: But Which?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why I Miss President Eisenhower
- Decision Time
- Lieberman's Retirement
- Judis on the Origins of Today's GOP
- Enhancing "civility" in politics is too broad a goal to be enforceable by public pressure and "eliminating threats of violence" is too narrow to stop extremist rhetoric. Here's a proposal for what opponents of extremist political oratory should demand.
- Here We Go Again With the Fairness Doctrine "Threat"
- Why the Right Should Be Reading MLK
- Newt's Big Strategy For Minority Outreach
- Steele's Last Day at RNC?
- About That Drop in Liberal Support for Obama
- Slow Cycle
- Gun Control a Daunting, Not Hopeless Prospect
- President Palin Addresses Her Nation
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Tucscon Shooter and the Case for Involuntary Commitment
- Will Bachmann Replace Palin in the 2012 Presidential Field?
- The Dog That Isn't Barking
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Some Tax Deal Provisions More Popular Than Others
- Jared Loughner appears to be psychotic and delusional, not a right-wing extremist. Leading conservatives argue this means that violent right-wing rhetoric did not provoke his lethal attack. But how about these 21 attacks that killed 8 innocent people.
- Bipartisan Agreement Needed on Violent Speech, Ammo Control
- After Tucson
- The slippery slope of violent rhetoric
- "Damage Control" Can Involve a Real Fight
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Are Republicans Serious About Fixing the Economy?
- Republicans Boost the Deficit: A Farce in Four Acts
- In Praise of Damage Control
- Make GOP Sens, Reps Explain Their Hypocrisy on HCR
- Lessons Learned in 2010, Part 2: Managing a Big Tent Party Against a Small Tent Opponent
- Pelosi and "Grassroots Bipartisanship"
- Lessons Learned in 2010, Part 1: Fundamentals Matter
- Issa's B.S. Showcased in Walkback
- Ten Memos to the President Counsel 'Fresh Thinking'
- Health Reform Repeal Not Just "Waste of Time"
- Bowers: Filibuster Reform Can End Appointments Obstruction
- Why We Won't Get Along
- Bowers: Filibuster Reform Has Little Downside for Progressives
- Filibuster Could Be Dead in a Week
- Blinded by the Klieg Lights
- "Yes, Yes, Long Live the Revolution"
- How 'Citizens United' Ruling Screws the Free Market
- Progressives: Obama's recent criticisms seemed deeply unfair but could turn out to be the most helpful thing he could possibly have done for us - if it makes us finally take seriously the job of building an independent grass-roots progressive movement.
- The Future is Blue, Part II
- Year End, fresh Start?
- Haley Barbour's Amnesia
- The Future is Blue
- Mean Regression
- Within the progressive criticism of Obama there are actually two profoundly different perspectives -- and it is vital that Democrats clearly distinguish between them.
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Obama Trusted by Middle Class More Than GOP
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: What Obama Should Do Next
- Obama cannot be an activist, an organizer and a legislator at the same time. He is right to redefine himself but has not successfully made one coherent role his own. The careful study of these three political roles suggests how he can proceed
- 2012 Challenge: Mobilizing Obama's Dormant Coalition
- Primary Challenge to Obama? Not In New Hampshire.
- Session Suddenly Not So Lame
- Filibuster Reform: Jan. 5...or Later?
- Cut-And-Run-Go
- Why the Estate Tax Can't Get Traction
- The VERY Wide Open 2012 GOP Presidential Race
- The Democrats' Challenge to Winning Back the House, Pt. 1: Manufacturing, Race, and Education
- Reid Blasts Kyl, DeMint for 'Sanctimonious Lectures'
- Deficits May Matter, But Less Than Anything Else
- Conservative Crosshairs
- Here Come Regressive State Taxes
- GOP Strawman Falls
- Conservatives Sneaking Out of Class on Tax Deal
- If I Had Some Ham....
- Constitutional Spin Wars
- The Spinach President
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Favors START, Dream Act, DADT Repeal
- TDS Contributor Mike Lux: An Open Letter to the President
- How Americans Really Feel About Body Scanners and WikiLeaks
- TDS Contributor Robert Creamer: High Stakes of Tax Deal Challenge Progressives
- Time Right for Filibuster Reform?
- Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
- So Split the Difference(s)
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Only Way Obama Can Win In 2012
- Let's Say Tax Deal Rebellion Succeeds: Then What?
- Michigan Poll Shows Difference Between 2010 and 2012 Landscapes
- Keeping Things Straight On the Tax Deal
- The Best Deal He Could Get?
- Ol' Huck Keeping His Options Open
- Extremism In the Name of Liberty
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Nixes Tax Cuts for Rich, Slashing Social Security
- TDS Contributor Alan Abramowitz: Poll Shows Americans As Ideological Conservatives, Operational Liberals
- Ryan Rides High Again--For the Moment
- Bowles-Simpson Report: Eyes of the Beholder
- Do Deficits Really Matter Most?
- Outing the GOP's Phony 'Bipartisanship'
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The American Public Wants a Deficit Compromise
- Latinos and the Exit Polls
- Why Obama Won't Face a Primary Challenge
- Beyond "sabotage" - the central issue about the growing political extremism of the Republican Party is that it's undermining fundamental American standards of ethical political conduct and behavior. It's time for Americans to say "That's enough".
- New DCorps Memo Charts Dem Course
- Southern Dems Down, But Not Out
- Fallows on False Equivalence
- The Political Usages of "Secret" Information
- Bullseye on Lugar
- Sabotage, Who Us?
- DeLay and de Law
- Reining In the Rogue
- Two Electorates, Different Trends: A Reply To Jay Cost
- The Ethanol Wedge
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Three Conservative Memes Unraveling
- Project Vote Study: Seniors, Wealthy Surged in Midterms
- How the Midterms Tilted the GOP Primary Battlefield
- The Sabotage Party
- GOP Hypocrisy: The Exception the Proves the Rule -- Sorta Kinda
- Time to End the Caddell-Schoen Masquerade
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: We Should Have Dumped Pelosi
- GOP Displays Shameless Hypocrisy on HCR, Earmarks
- A Good Baseline For Understanding Indies in 2010
- The Rise of Uncompassionate Conservatism
- For True Independents, the Economy Matters Most
- Dancing to the Iowa Caucuses?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: HCR Repeal Effort Could Backfire
- Is the Electorate Moving to the Right? Ruy Teixeira says no.
- "Independent voters" are the political equivalent of ectoplasm - they only appear on devices specially designed to measure them and are invisible in everyday normal life.
- What's behind the changing number of "moderates" and "independents" within the Republican coalition between 2006 and 2010?
- TPM and Online Political Journalism
- Democratic Deficit-Reduction
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Obama Has Boehner Right Where He Wants Him
- Time to Leave 2010 LVs Behind
- Getting Our (Lame) Ducks Lined Up
- A Transformational Election? Not Likely
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Proof That Obamacare Sunk the Democrats, Even Though It Save Their Souls
- "Standing" or "Moving:" Some Points of Clarification
- Lux: Refocus Strategy for 2012 and the Future
- The Bowles-Simpson Report: It Ain't Happenin'
- Big Contradictions For GOP, Part One: Medicare
- Matt Bai's False Choices
- The Great Pivot
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Conservative 'Mandate' -- Not
- Transitions
- Closing the 2010 Books on Rasmussen
- "The American People"
- How Ads Cut Both Ways
- A Skirmish Lost, A Great Battle Won
- TDS Co-Editors William Galston and Ruy Teixeira Break Down Election 2010
- An urgent TDS Strategy Memo: Democratic Unity after the Elections
- A Wave (With An Undertow), But No Tsunami
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Says, "No Thanks on That Repeal Thing"
- TDS contributor Bob Creamer: What yesterday's election means for progressives
- Your Comprehensive 2010 Election Guide
- The Perils of Self-Deception
- Party or Person?
- Last-Minute Polls: Somebody's Got To Be Wrong
- Pre-Mortem Post-Mortem
- Aerial photography Indicates Stewart/Colbert "March for Sanity" was twice the size of Glen Beck's "Restore Honor"
- How Many Blue Dogs Will Voters "Boot"?
- Gender Gaps Versus "Mama Grizzlies"
- TDS Contributor Bob Creamer on GOTV (Get out the vote)
- A Tea Party For Medicare
- The House and Senate Expectations Game
- Springtime For Race-Baiting
- Following the Money
- eMeg Hits Bottom
- More Equal Than Others
- Enthusiasm and Attentiveness
- Fired Up?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: New Polls Show a Democratic Apolcalypse (But Are They Wrong?)
- Time For A New Theory?
- Nikki Haley Redux
- Greenberg and Carville: How Dems Can Keep Control
- Should Dems Want a Smaller Tent?
- Here's the real issue about Rand Paul's religion - He's a disciple of Ayn Rand but Rand despised compassionate Christianity -- she would have thrown rocks at Jesus during the Sermon on the Mount. The press should demand Paul say which doctrine he disavows
- The GOP's Plan-Meets-Need Problem
- Edsall's Zero-Sum Dystopia
- Not-So-Big Mo'
- Blue Surge Emerging in Senate Races
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Republicans and the Political Process During the 112th Congress
- Money Talks, Brooks Walks
- A Case Study in Over-Interpretation
- Meg Whitman = Arnold
- Early Voting Gleanings
- Democrats: you can't understand the "enthusiasm gap" -- and why Dems seem so often demoralized -- without understanding the military concept of "morale." It's going to be absolutely critical after the election, so here's the key point to understand.
- An Electoral Tsunami Or a Reversion to the Norm?
- Will Conway Ad Work or Backfire?
- Extending Election Night
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Not Hung Up on Cutting Govt
- Could Tom Tancredo Become the Governor of Colorado?
- Back to the Issues in California!
- Miracle in Chile: Capitalism or Community?
- Why It's Easier For Conservatives To "Brand" Themselves
- Nevada Debate: Sharron Angle's Self-Parody vs. Harry Reid's Missed Chances
- Debating an Empty Chair
- Romney's the One!
- Turnout Strategy Choice: New Voters vs. Older Reliables
- Tea Party Voter Suppression Campaign Reportedly in the Works
- The Debate on Debates Continues
- Redistricting and Its Limits
- Unlike GOP Corporate Donors, Labor Campaign Spending is Transparent
- Candidate Quality and 2010
- The GOP Crackpot Factor: Potential and Limits
- There is an important inconsistency in the left critique of Obama's political strategy - one that needs to be taken seriously because it will prominently figure in the intra-Democratic debate after the elections
- Romney Campaign Disses Iowa
- Gubernatorial Dynamics
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Americans Are Turning Against Trade. How Can We Fix That?
- NDN's Simon Rosenberg: Midterm Outlook Improving
- Reality Check in Nevada
- Democrats: the issue of "secret money" behind the pro-GOP TV ad blitz can have a huge pro-Democratic "multiplier effect" beyond the obvious populist appeal. Properly communicated, the issue can make voters distrust the ads and ignore their messages.
- Silver Linings?
- Once More, With Feeling: The Enthusiasm Gap in Context
- New DCorps Memo: 'October Surprise' May Be Stirring
- The LV Quandry Revisited
- Tea Party/Christian Right Overlap Confirmed
- Four Weeks Out, the Base Stands Firm
- The Unmasking Boehner Boehner Ad
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public More Pleased Than Angry about HCR
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How to Fix the Deficit
- There are three important lessons that progressives and Democrats need to learn from the One Nation rally this past Saturday - and whether the rally was as big as Glen Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally is not one of them.
- Polling Ideology
- How Early Voting Changes Tempo, Tone of Campaigns
- Senate Battlegrounds Narrowing?
- Bad Timing For eMeg
- Rebuilding Coalitions
- Voter Fraud Accusations a GOP Red Herring
- No Referendum? No Worries!
- Crackpot Connections Surfacing in Rand Paul Campaign
- Democrats: a very dangerous threat is coming into view - faked incidents of "voter intimidation" on Election Day. We have to be ready with a clear and effective strategy to respond.
- Too Much Information? Or Not Enough?
- The Most Popular Pol
- Pro-Democratic Groups Mobilizing Robust GOTV
- Whose Federal Spending?
- A Reminder from the President on Media Objectivity
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Doesn't Buy Government-Bashing
- Public Turning Off to Wingnut Lunacy?
- The Great Recession and the Long Recession
- Voter Suppression 2010 Style
- Mondale's Instructive Musings
- Taking on the Right's Murky Surrogates
- Another Reason To Question the "Enthusiasm Gap"
- Dems: there's no single solution to the "enthusiasm gap" - it's a lot of different problems, not just one.
- That Old 2007 Feeling
- Divided and Conquer? The GOP and the Defense Budget
- 'Pledge to America' Vapid GOP Boilerplate
- Democrats: Don't be misled by the generic ballot - the most recent numbers are so bloody damn close that the only message they send is that dozens of races will be decided by how hard we fight and if we let our opponents trick us into demoralization.
- Dems in Position to take TX, FL and GA Governorships
- McCain to 2012ers: It's Easy! Skip Iowa!
- Sheep and Goats
- TV Still Rules Political Ad Wars
- Is It "Demagoguery" To Compare the Two Parties?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Tax Cuts for Middle Class, Not Rich
- Tax Cut No Brainer, Continued
- GQR Report: Framing Key to Dem Midterm Performance
- Lashed to the Mast
- Best Laid Plans
- The Pure Referendum Argument About Midterms
- Abortion and the Tea Party
- Midterm Opportunities Still There
- New DCORPS Analysis: Big Edge for Dems in Tax Debate
- The Whitman Spending Machine Moves Remorselessly On
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How Will We Know If Netanyahu Is Serious About Peace?
- That Liberal, George W. Bush
- Understanding a Mad, Mad Primary Season
- Why the Delaware and New Hampshire Senate Primaries Matter
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Bush, GOP Lose Blame Game
- Middle-Class Tax Cut: The No-Brainer
- Polls Point in Both Directions
- Washington, DC's Racial Polarization Is Not That Bad
- Good News For Democrats Where? Delaware!
- Your Guide to the New Hampshire Political Slugfest
- Strategy Clues Emerge in New GOP Ad Campaigns
- Democrats: calm down and regain some perspective. Yes, we'll suffer losses this fall, but there's actually not any profound Anti-Obama or pro-Republican attitude shift going on. This may sound wildly at variance with the polls you've seen, but it's true.
- French Demos Suggest Social Security May Be Wedge Issue
- Small Business Voters: An Opening for Dems?
- Progressives: we've forgotten (or maybe just never learned) the ideas of "critical support" and "strategic voting" which European center-left voters have applied for years. It's how they defeated conservatives many times in the post-war period.
- The Midterms, Too, Shall Pass
- Young Voters and Midterm Turnout
- EDITORIAL: It's Time To Unmask the Republican Agenda
- Big Campaigns For Small Government
- Jewish Voters Still Overwhelmingly Democratic
- Lakoff, Westen & Nyhan: Messaging vs. "It's the Economy"
- Finally, there's a solid, empirically grounded comparison of the size of the Glen Beck rally and the Obama inauguration - Are you ready? The Beck Rally was only 11% of the size of the inauguration.
- Structural Causes of the "Enthusiasm Gap"
- Can Threat of GOP Surge in Polls Help Energize Women?
- Beyond The Mother of All Bummer Midterm Polls
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The CBO Director Just Made Fiscal Policy Seem More Confusing. Yes, More Confusing.
- Lessons of Iraq: Don't Do It Again
- The Conservative Politics of Common Purpose
- Bush Nostalgia
- Westen's RX for Dem Strategy Course Correction
- The Ever-Shifting Senate Chessboard
- The Prophet Glenn
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants More Regulation of Banks and Business
- Crist Caucuses With Himself
- Glen Beck wants to "reclaim" the message of Martin Luther King --- mainly from Martin Luther King himself. The attempt would be merely pathetic if it were not also vile. Here's how to respond.
- A brief note on crowd estimates
- Islamophobia Isolated
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: There Is Only One Way Out of the Recession
- Beck's Ego-Trip Not Likely to Affect Midterms
- Beck Has A Dream--Or More Likely, a Nightmare
- Money Can't Buy You Love
- Joe Miller and the Growing Wingnut Caucus
- John McCain Wins, But the Tea Party Didn't Lose
- Mixed Signals
- Tale of Two Primaries
- Hope for Dems in Voter Registration Uptick
- Memo to the GOP's Team 2012: On National Security, Fear Ain't What It Used to Be
- Inequality and Government
- In Weighing Obama's Strategic Performance, Context Is Everything
- First Church of Burning Tree
- Obama Should Use PSA's, Govt Media to Educate Public About HCR
- Money Talks: Politico Makes the Case For Barbour '12
- Gingrich Too Extreme for Buchanan, Scarborough
- Could Mosque Issue Hurt GOP?
- Softening Up Candidates For General Elections
- "I Never Did Drugs On the Boat"
- West of Midnight
- New DCORPS Analysis: Voter's Views on Economic Renewal, Debt Reduction
- House Election Strategies Emerge
- Obama and Carter
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: This Is An Economy Election, and That's Terrible News for Dems
- Polls Hint at Need for Stronger Dem Memes
- Repeal Cost Controls, Boost the Deficit
- Signals from the Bond Market
- A "Conservative Reformer's" Priorities
- It's All Comparative
- Doomsday Scenarios
- Creamer and Lux Offer Perspective on Gibbs Furor
- Behind the GOP 'Anchor Babies' Scam
- Four Frontrunners
- Lux: How Dems Can Leverage Real Populism
- Nasty As They Wanna Be
- Mile-High Meltdown
- How It's Done
- The Movement that Passed HCR
- The Fat-and-Happy Public Employees Canard
- Unflattening Taxes on the Rich
- Democrats: President Obama's recent speeches provide a coherent Democratic message for the fall. They are clear, serviceable and ready to be put to use.
- Not The Best Night--or Week--for the Right
- Mitt Romney Shudders
- Creamer: Nine Keys To Democratic Success in the Midterms
- Disarming the Attack on the Individual Mandate
- Perry v. Schwarzenegger: The Broader Ripples
- Argument for 60-Vote Cloture Threshhold Busted
- Move Over, South Carolina!
- Tea Bags, Windbags, and Moneybags
- Midwestern Primary Gleanings
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How To Lower Unemployment
- Notes On Today's Midwestern Primaries
- Abramowitz: Data Links Vote Loss to Conservative Ideology
- Private Affluence, Public Squalor
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Conservatives Flogging Dead Causes
- Behind the Big Paywall
- Much Ado About Doing Nothing
- Phil A. Buster and Democratic Regrets
- Time for a Day of Message Discipline?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How Americans' Shifting Political Ideologies Threaten the Democrats
- Keeping the Record Straight on the Midterm Landscape
- Celebrating Unemployment
- Watch out Democrats: the exposure of the dishonest manipulation of videos shown on Andrew Breitbart's websites will not moderate conservative attacks. On the contrary, it will intensify the search for new and even more aggressive tactics to employ.
- Caddell and Schoen Officially Join the Right-Wing Noise Machine
- Fourth Estate Cred Endangered
- Upset in Oklahoma
- Netroots Opinion: "Run, Sarah, Run" And Other Findings
- 'Big Government' Myth Shattered by New Survey
- Primary Day in Oklahoma
- Learning from the Sherrod Smear
- Rocky Week for Colorado Republicans
- Creamer: What Is the First Rule for Democratic Success in November?
- Obama the All-Powerful?
- "Big Government's" Two Problems
- Run, Sharron (& Rand), Run
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: D.C. Elites and "Real Americans" Are More Similar Than You'd Think
- Dem Control of State Legislatures at Risk
- Newt and the Religious "Double Standard"
- Green Shoots in Governors' Races?
- Low Turnout, High Consequences
- Sleazy Attempt to Unseat Sen. Franken Unraveling
- Enthusiasm Matters, Excitement--Not So Much
- Peach State Primaries
- Jobless Benefits Extension Popular With Independents
- Warning! Dubious Poll Data!
- 2010 Mid Terms: Shades of '82, Not '94
- Tactical Radicalism and Its Long-Term Implications
- Anti-Anti-Racism
- Implosion in Colorado
- Newt Versus Sarah
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Attention, Democrats! The Senate Is Now In Play
- Is Small Package Legislation a Wiser Strategy?
- Don't Sweat Independents So Much
- Creamer: Why They Must Be Stopped
- Alabama Runoff: Business As Usual
- Reid's Revival
- Sleazy Strategy to Hold TX Governorship May Backfire
- Alabama Shake
- Heck, They Got Color TV Sets
- Palin Strikes Again
- Unstable Platform
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Cautious on Spending Cuts
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Can Democrats Recover Before the Midterms?
- Angle's Angling a Tad Late
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Preparing For a Showdown In the Middle East This Fall
- Will Abortion Be a Defining Issue in California?
- The Reefer's Edge May Help Dems in Mid Terms
- Southern Republican Focus on Immigration Intensifies
- Holding Romney Accountable On Foreign Policy
- Cross-Fire on Race to the Top
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: HRC Act Gaining Support
- Form Dictates Function
- The Missing Spirit in the Democratic Soul
- Culture War and Peace
- Rand Paul's Double Flip-Flop on Border Fences
- The Unlikely Clout of Jan Brewer
- "A Great Friend"
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: America May Never Be the Same
- One More Time: The Tea Party Is the Republican Right
- GOP 'Keystone Kops' Candidates May Save Dem Majorities
- Three Reasons Why Dems in Better Shape Than in '94
- Good Ol' Days
- Poll-ution
- "Top Two" Illusions
- 'Accountability Project': New Weapon for Pro-Active Dems
- The Ever-Shifting RINO Line
- Exploding JournoList Conspiracy Theories
- Looking Past Kagan--Way Past
- It's the Frames, Stupid
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: I've Never Seen Israel Like This
- Class Conflict Emerges in CA Gov Race Ad War
- Guns On Kagan
- RIP Robert Byrd
- How can Democrats combat the "Enthusiasm Gap" that threatens to cause severe Democratic losses this fall? The first step is to ask the right question --- why is Republican enthusiasm so high this year rather than why is Democratic enthusiasm so low.
- State Aid Failure Will Have Consequences
- Don't Expect Presidential Magic
- Lux: How Dems Can Ride Wave of Discontent
- Growing Dem Edge With Latinos May Prove Decisive
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Demographics and the Parties
- Masterstroke
- Graham Cares About Business, Not Planet
- Ideological Games in Utah
- New DNC Ad Kicks Wingnut Butt
- Amongst the Apathetic in NC
- Big Night For the Right in SC
- GOP Follows Barton's Bow to British Petroleum
- In the Carolinas and Utah
- "Agony of the Liberals" Versus Obama's Liberal Approval Ratings
- Candidates and Party Strategy
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Prepare Yourself For Speaker Boehner
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants BP to Step Up
- Barton's Grovel, GOP's Emblematic Moment
- Just Cops or Teachers, Too?
- Barton Bends the Knee
- So Much For Market Mechanisms
- What's a President To Do?
- Dealing With a Different Wheel
- Clarifying the Progressive Challenge
- Failing to Meet Impossible Expectations
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: A Question of Life and Death
- Battleground Poll: From the Generic to the Specific
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Action on Global Warming
- A Runoff To a Runoff?
- Connecting Dots
- Zygote Politics
- More Protection for Money Talking
- Trauma Center
- Catch-22 in Alabama
- Money Talks in the Sunshine State
- 2010 Primary Challenges
- Whitman, Fiorina Not Likely to Inspire Jobless Voters
- Did Nikki Haley Help Kill Cap-and-Trade?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The U.S. Is Not Too Big to Fail
- Coast to Coast
- Some Lessons of Lincoln's Win
- Progressives need an independent movement, but not because Obama "failed" or "betrayed" them. Progress always requires an active grass-roots movement and the lack of one for the last 30 years is the key cause of progressive "failures" and "defeats"
- GOP Still Way Behind in Women Office-Holders
- Off to the Races!
- Dogs That Aren't Barking
- Ten Tips for Dem Winners
- Palin Endorses Branstad. Hmmmmm.
- First "Obama's Katrina," Now "Obama's Watergate"
- Tweaking Frames for the Mid Terms
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Case Against Keynes (With Some Questions for Krugman, Too)
- Basic Instincts
- How Dems Can Lead on National Security
- Uncommon Sense on Spill Spin
- Abramowitz: Katrina Didn't Undo Bush
- Just When You Thought the Haley Saga Couldn't Get More Twisted....
- Countering the GOP Spill Spin: BP Mess is 'Cheney's Katrina'
- Long Night in Alabama
- 2012 Preview in Iowa?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Says End DADT
- Excess and Ennui in Alabama
- A Headstone in Arlington
- Memorial Day
- Dems Launch HCR Teach-In for Seniors
- Progressivism, Freedom and the Role of Government
- Down the Rabbit Hole in South Cackalacky
- Are Vicious Primaries Hurting the GOP?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How Bad Is It Really for the Unemployed? My 'Aha' Moment
- Does Liberalism Hurt Democrats?
- Private Failure and Public Responsibility
- The Muzzling of Rand Paul
- New Poll Shows Tradeoffs on Immigration
- The Palin Steamroller Hits Speed Bump in Idaho
- Will Paul Family Values Sink His Senate Campaign?
- Move Right and Lose: Evidence from the 2000-2008 U.S. Senate Elections
- More Madness from the Palmetto State
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Football and the Alabama Gubernatorial Race
- You Don't Have to Be Racist To Hate the Twentieth Century
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: A Single Democratic Victory in a Single Pennsylvania Race Doesn't Change Anything
- Rand Paul's White Working-Class Problem
- Rand Paul and the Constitution Party
- On a Note of Triumph
- Rand Paul's Weird Day
- Financial Reform Clears Key Hurdle
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why Immigration Reform Is Bad Politics This Year
- Whitman Fade Is For Real
- A Few Post-Primary Thoughts
- The Son Also Rises
- the dog that did not bark
- Elections Show Emerging Trend Favoring Dems, Progressives
- New TDS Strategy White Paper: Beyond the Tea Partiers
- "Turbulent Tuesday"
- PA-12 Race Merits Close Scrutiny
- Incumbency and Tomorrow's Primaries
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira Cites Deep Public Distrust of Wall St.
- Galston and Mann on Asymmetrical Polarization
- Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Opinions on Arizona
- The Latino Edge: Will Dems Handle it Well?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: I'm Serious--We're Finally Getting Serious
- Kagan's Alleged Distance From the "Mainstream"
- Mollohan Defeated
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The British Election Was All About Immigration
- Creamer Limns Strategy on Deficits for Dems
- Anti-Ivy Revolt Now!
- Could Meg Whitman Lose Her Primary?
- The Kagan Nomination
- NRA, GOP Minions Defend Terrorist Gun Rights
- Why Southern Republicans Are "Raising Arizona"
- The Power of Freedom: A Response
- Abramowitz: HCR Impact on Midterms Likely Limited
- The Brits Un-Decide
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Politics of Evasion
- GOP Hypocrites Squander Taxpayer Billions on Big Ag Welfare
- Party of One
- Brits Vote
- Primaries Reveal Enthusiasm Gap Favoring GOP
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Forget Offshore Drilling Until We Get Some Answers
- The CW Delivers
- Primary Day in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: HCR Facts Serve Dems, Not GOP
- Dick Cheney and the Gulf Oil Spill
- Governing Well Is the Best Revenge
- Charting the GOP Shift on Immigration
- Touting his 50-plus years as “an old-school conservative”, right-wing activist Richard Viguerie gives the Tea Party the benefit of his experience
- Freedom, Politics and Government: A Summary of the "Freedom Forum" So Far
- Beck Says Being Rich Means Being Right
- Chickens-For-Checkups and Conservative Hostility to Health Insurance
- Enhancing Freedom By Government Action
- Crapshoot
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Should the Democrats Pursue Immigration or Climate Change?
- Freedom Is More Than a Frame
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Tea Party Leanings Exposed in New Poll
- Health Care Lies Are Powerful
- Taking Liberties
- The Bennett "Purge" Succeeding
- Mid-Terms: Playing the (Middle) Age Card
- The Challenge of Connecting Freedom to Government Action
- The New Prop 187?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Confirmation Politics
- GOP's Bogus Populism and Wall St. Reform
- For Conservatives, Freedom's Just Another Word
- The Florida Circus
- Why Does "Freedom" Matter To Progressives?
- An Earth Day Appeal for the SCOTUS Nominee
- Has the Whitman Backlash Already Begun?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Liberal Democrats' Moment
- Reclaiming the Ideal of Freedom For Progressivism and the Democratic Party
- Dark Horses
- The Bridge We Are Still Crossing
- Coming Tomorrow: A Very Special Forum On Progressive Politics and the American Ideal of Freedom
- The Lioness Sleeps
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Don't Buy GOP's Phony 'Tax Revolt'
- Sources of the Rasmussen "House Effect"
- Making Them Squirm
- Financial Regulation: Will Republicans Escape?
- 2012 Will Be A Very Different Election
- Tea Party: Sour Old Whine in New Bottles
- Lux: Challenges and Challengers in the Senate
- Dems' Trump Card: GOP's Dilemma on Financial Reform
- The British Leaders' Debate
- More Bad Advice From Schoen and Caddell
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Clearing the Way For the "Grand Bargain"
- Charlie Crist Bites the Bullet
- The Heart of the Republican Dilemma
- A Political Geography of Jewish Voters
- Voters in a Bad Mood, British Edition
- The Gold Standard In Your Future
- The New Pirates of Campaign Financing
- Big Dem Win in FL-19
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira Cites Strong Support for Bank Regulation
- Immigration, the Tea Partiers, and the GOP's Future
- Obama's SCOTUS Short List and the 'Empathy Standard'
- Obama's Nuclear Initiatives: Public Supports Means If Not Ends
- Playing a New Role Competently
- Democracy As a Free Lunch for Islamofascists
- A Few "Generic" Notes on House Elections
- Towards A More Upbeat Mid-Term Scenario
- Urgent: A TDS Strategy Memo on the Supreme Court
- Game On
- The Revolution in Political Journalism
- Help Prevent CNN from Morphing Into FoxNews II
- Turnout Rumblings
- GOPers Go Full Speed Ahead
- Senior 'Persuadables,' HCR and November 2
- Neo-Confederate History Month
- Whitman's California Buy-Out
- Redistribution, Growth and Morality
- Warm-Up Act For the Supreme Battle
- Beck, Fox News, the Militia Message and Your Money
- Tea Party Movement, 'Socialism' Equally Popular
- Coming Attractions
- Caring for Our Combat Vets: A Political and Moral Imperative
- Speedy Elections
- A Fun Group
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Perils of Polarization
- Presidential Field Hockey
- End of a Delusion
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Backs Financial Reform
- When Democrats Unite
- That Ancient Choice: Mobilization Versus Persuasion
- Early Money News
- Obama's HCR Win Rooted in Emotional Appeal
- What You Missed Yesterday
- Creamer: Ten Rules for Democratic Success in Midterm Elections
- Exploding a Stimulus "Study"
- To Have and to Have Not
- Still No Foolin'
- "About" Race
- Cap-and-Whatever
- Party Preferences of Sports Fans Predictable, Turnout Not So Much
- Over the Brink
- Stalking The Elusive White Male Voter
- Mitt's "Problem" Redux
- "Populist Crossfire"
- Primary Challenges, Ideology, and Electability
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Deficit of Imagination
- Needed: Energized HCR Educational Campaign
- When Looking at Polls....
- Pas d'ennemis a Droit, Pas d'amis a Gauche
- Governor Moonbeam Versus eMeg
- A Major Teachable Moment
- Pre-Election Court Fight?
- Gender Gap in Political Recruitment Highlighted
- Delegitimizing Authority
- Scratch Petraeus From 2012 Race
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: How To Sell the Darn Thing
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Support for Afghanistan Policy Grows
- Democrats: the growing threat of violence cannot and should not be ignored. It is likely to quickly become worse
- Meg's Spendathon
- Tea Party: Still the Republican Right
- G.O.P. Sets New Standard in Losing Ugly
- U.S. Jews Support Obama and His Middle East Policy
- Did progressives suffer a “set-back” or even a “defeat” in the health care campaign? A progressive “movement” activist from the 1960’s, waking up today, would find this view not simply wrong, but literally incomprehensible. Here’s why
- A New Season of Hope
- Explaining the Democratic "No" Votes
- Party Discipline -- Grassroots Style
- Obama As Grand Strategist
- The (Republican) Constitutional Challenge To Health Reform
- Get a Grip
- Contemplating the Magnitude
- Will Dems Opposing HCR Lose Support in November?
- It's Done!
- A Useful Distraction
- Inverted Hubris
- The Big Misconception About "Deem and Pass"
- Progressives and Poker
- Brass Tacks
- Dead-Eye Dick
- Stupak: The Man and the Movement
- On to the Vote(s)
- Erick the Red
- How the HCR Package Delivers --- Right Away
- All Together Now
- Underdogs Have Their Day in Colorado
- HCR Challenge: Targeting 'Undecideds' -- and Their Constituents
- The 2010/2012 Endorsement Game
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Politician of the Future Will Resemble...Ross Perot?
- Civil Disobedience For Republicans
- Misanalyzing Democratic Divisions on Health Reform
- A Key to Passing HCR: Black Voters in Blue Dog Districts
- Empty Threats
- Jesus At the Tea Party
- A Timely Reminder on Health Reform
- Consumer Financial Protection a Winning Issue for Dems?
- False Friends
- New Polls Bring Good News for HCR
- Texas Revisionism
- Devil's Advocate
- Ethics: The Dem Counterpunch
- Semper Fi, Mitt!
- Likely Voters, Elections, and "Plebiscites"
- No Ganging Up On Health Reform
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Greatest Virtue of the Republican Budget Plan
- Will Huge Ad Buy, Media War Stop HCR?
- Can Charlie Crist Switch and Survive?
- Win Dixie
- New List of House HCR Undecideds Posted by 'The Hill'
- Flipping Out
- More On ObamaCare/RomneyCare
- GOP's 'Phony Argument About Process' Shreds Nicely
- How Progressives Strengthened HCR
- The Tea Party's Retreaded "Ideas"
- House Swing Voters Need Presssure from Progressives
- Pro-Reform Majority?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Public Isn't Enthused About Health Care Reform. So What?
- An Open Letter to the Democratic Community: Don’t Get Sucked into the Beltway Proxy Wars
- Budget Reconciliation Distortions: The Rebuttal
- GOP Screwed Up With 'Start Over' Chorus
- Another Bite at the Apple
- Rick Perry Gets Lucky Again
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Steny Hoyer Is Speaking the Truth
- About Those "Green Shoots" of Moderation
- Bunning's Bird: New Symbol of the G.O.P.
- The Republican Civil War: Your Guide To This Year's Primaries
- A Pretty Wild Mainstream
- Short-Circuiting Ethics
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Ready for Comprehensive HCR
- New DCORPS Study: Key Demographic Groups Optimistic, But Not Engaged Down-Ballot
- Conservatives Soft on Domestic Terrorism?
- Health Reform and Reconciliation: The Budget Says Go For It
- New GOP Meme: Mocking the Unemployed, Uninsured
- Grumpy Old Party
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Future Shock
- Post-Summitry
- Will Summit Help Pass HCR?
- Walking Dead Incumbents
- Summit Spectacle
- Brainwashed
- "Ramming Through" Legislation Via Reconciliation
- The True Function of the Filibuster
- Clue That White House is On Track with HCR
- Obama's Multiple Audiences
- The Long Goodbye to the Public Option
- Vote Number 218
- Conservatives Let Their Freak Flag Fly
- Don't Tread On My Medicare
- A Push Into the Abyss
- The "Obama Plan"
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Supports Taxing Rich, Regulating Banks and Ending Filibuster
- The Not-So-Independents
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Republican Sprint Away From Sanity
- Does Ron Paul's CPAC Staw Poll Win Show GOP Racism?
- TDS Co-Editor Stan Greenberg on Tea Party Movement
- CPAC: Delighted To Be United?
- California Shows Futility of GOP Health Reform "Ideas"
- The World Without Obama
- TDS Co-Editor Stan Greenberg: Avoiding Another 1994
- "Moderates" and "Independents"--Not the Same Thing
- Dems Have Mockery Edge
- Mount Vernon Statement: The Fifty-Year Reunion
- Do Americans Hate Free Speech?
- Moment of Truth Approaches for Dem Leaders
- Misplaced Nostalgia
- Culture Wars Live On In Texas
- Why Bayh's Exit Matters To the Chattering Classes
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Opposes 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
- That Other Summit
- Hoosier Shocker
- Obama's Two-Front Offensive on Health Reform
- 'G.O.P. = Gridlock, Obstruction & Paralysis' Meme Gets Legs
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: I Read the CEA Report So You Don't Have To (But You Should Look At It Anyway)
- A Better Glimpse At the Tea Party Movement
- Liberals and Libertarians Finally Break Up
- G.O.P. = Gridlock, Obstruction & Paralysis
- 53 Cents
- A Practical Response to Citizens United
- Has Palin's GOP Support Collapsed?
- Scott Brown For President? No Way.
- MSM's Free Ride for Tea Party Unhinged
- Turning Coats
- Same-Sex Marriage in Iowa: Safe Until 2014
- Snowpocalypse
- Playing Chicken
- The Mythical Supermajority
- Is Obama Defying Public Opinion?
- Chess Game Behind Health Care Summit
- The Landrieu Landslide
- Palin's Saturday Night Live
- GQR Survey: Strong Support for Campaign Finance Reform
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Freedom Agenda
- Tea Party Appetizer: Fiery Immigrant-Bashing
- Obama's Regulatory Accomplishments
- Defanging America's Hard Right
- Another Teachable Moment
- Gut Check For Illinois Democrats
- Left Losing Internet Edge
- The Right and the GOP: Pushing On An Open Door
- African-Americans and the "Center-Right Nation"
- Know Your Tea Party Facts
- Can Republicans Win the Senate?
- Illinois Gleanings
- A Way Out of Limbo
- Among the Elephants: Rightward, Ho!
- The Cycle Begins
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Supports HCR, But Clarity Needed
- Tim's Dim Ideas
- Gulliver Among the Lilliputians
- Budget Optics
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: While Obama Speechified, His Political Predicament Got Worse
- Lessons from the Lion's Den
- Obama in the Lion's Den
- Tea Party Convention Shrinks Some More
- A Close Look At Those Republican Health Care "Ideas"
- Sally Quinn's History of the Modern Presidency
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: WWRD: What Would Reagan Do?
- Obama Doubles Down
- SOTU Roadmap Includes Health Reform
- Could Bungling Wingnut Buggers Steal Show?
- Obama's SOTU Challenge
- Straining Tea
- DSCC's Call to Arms Overdue, But Welcome
- "Stray Animals" and Republican Radicalism
- Obama's "Theory of Change" Revisited
- Cold Confusion
- Tea Party Agenda: Nowhere Near the "Center"
- Bring On the GOP Health Policies!
- Republicans Aren't Sitting As Pretty As They Think
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Despite GOP Spin, Obama More Popular Than Brown
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Why Obama Can't Abandon Health Care Now
- House and Senate Health Reform Bills: They Don't Exist Outside Washington
- They Don't Like Each Other
- Brown's Inroads with Workers Key in MA
- Should HCR Now Be Repackaged?
- Health Reform, Public Opinion, and "Liberal Pundits"
- Supremes Blow Up Corporate Spending Ban
- Health Reform Back From Dead
- Perfect Storms Do Happen
- MA Meltdown: The Local Buzz
- There's Mitt!
- Bad News, But Don't Make It Worse
- Tim Tebow's Only Super Bowl Appearance?
- Where's Mitt?
- MLK
- Obama Goes To Massachusetts
- More on the Tea Party/GOP Dance
- Good Time For Bank Tax
- The Uneasy Marriage Between Tea Partiers and the GOP
- The Devil and Pat Robertson
- A Push For Regional Primaries
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: My Dream SOTU Address
- Restless Volunteers
- Schmitt's Deal For Senate Reform
- Dems Roll GOP in FL Voter Registration Race
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Doesn't Buy GOP Health Care Meme
- The GOP's Massachussets Dreamin'
- Revelations
- IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR READERS WHO COMMENT ON TDS
- Tempest in Tea Party Pots
- One Past, Two Futures
- The Founders and the Filibuster
- Reid and Lott
- Despite MSM Ostrich Reflex, GOP Running Scared
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: A Very Different Decade Needed
- More On "The Base" and Obama
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Jobs Trump Deficit As Public Priority
- Clintonomics, Bushonomics, and the Politics of Economic Decline
- Bowers: Hostage-Taking Doesn't Work
- Tea Party Convention: Third Force or Takeover Bid?
- Go Comparative, Democrats!
- The "Heading for the Exits" Narrative
- Appeals Court Overturns Felony Disenfranchisement
- Can Mitt Romney Get His Groove Back?
- Is "The Party Base" Fed Up With Obama? No.
- TDS Commenters: the log-in problem is solved
- Governor Kaine's Opportunity
- Douthat's Agenda
- Barone's Bargain Basement for "Ideas"
- "Primarying" Barack Obama--Some Relevant History
- The Y2K Decade
- Reshaping 2016
- Should Obama Golf?
- Abramowitz: Terrorism Incident Has No Effect on Obama Approval Ratings
- Cheney At War
- Distinguishing Judicial and Legislative Filibusters
- Shape of the Real Deal on Health Care Reform
- Party-Switching Not That Good For Political Health
- Democrats Do Not Need To Become More "Moderate" To Win in 2010: Four Rules For Victory in November
- The Next Cookie On the Plate
- Flipping the Mid-Terms
- Senate Dems' Holiday Gift
- Hail to The Chief
- Schmitt: Focus on 'Progressive Infrastructure'
- Parker Griffith Can Change Parties, But Not History
- Public Opinion After Health Care Reform
- More Debates On the Filibuster and Polarization
- Mark Mellman on Health Care Reform
- Death Panels the "Lie of the Year"
- Conservative Crocodile Tears About "Corporatism"
- Half-Empty Glasses
- The Improbable Vote
- Chait: GOP Courts Strategic Disaster, Intellectual Bankruptcy
- A note to commenters
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston Outlines Dem Battle Plan for 2010
- Bloggers Make Case for HCR Compromise
- The Long Overdue Debate
- Brooks Follows His Formula
- Taking Strategic Differences Seriously
- Q&A
- Left-Right Convergence?
- Health Reform Drama Moves To Stage Left
- Pass Financial Regulatory Reform--Then Break Up the Big Wall Street Banks
- Health Reform Options Narrow
- The Ungreening of America
- Health Care Costs and Benefits
- Parker's Election More Than a Milestone
- In Galt They Trust
- New study of Israeli public opinion challenges conventional wisdom
- Huck Attacks the "Big Tent"--in Canada!
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Best Speech of Obama's Presidency
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Americans Want Action on Climate Change
- Meanwhile, Back in the House....
- The Year of Thinking Dangerously About Climate Change
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: The Courage of Our Contradictions
- Global Warming Deniers Nailed Cold
- Democrats who disagree with Obama’s Afghan plan face a difficult choice – They can categorically reject and oppose the administration or play a role in the coming struggle between those who seek a political solution to the conflict and a military one
- Two Reasons For the GOP's Focus On the Very Old
- Tame Left Critique Bodes Well for Health Reform Deal
- The Senate Health Care "Deal"
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Make Jobs Top Priority in 2010
- Tea Party Party?
- CNN/ORC Poll: 56 Percent Favor House Health Bill Or More Liberal Version
- Popular Dissent "From the Left" On Health Reform
- Abramowitz: A Note on the Rasmussen Effect
- Two Views On a Non-Public "National Option"
- Abramowitz: Dems Should Kill Filibuster
- Republicans Are Incumbents, Too!
- Public Option As 'Beachhead'
- Obama Finds A Better Audience
- The Public Option: Substance and Symbolism
- Behind the House GOP's ACORNaganza
- States Undermining Stimulus
- Can Obama's Af-Pak Policy Unify Dems?
- Atlanta Mayor's Race Disappoints GOP
- Should Progressives Care About 2010?
- Be Skeptical About Mid-Term Spin
- News Break
- Follow the Leaderless: Palin and McCarthy
- Moving To the Right, Without Direction
- Best First Year Since FDR
- Benefit of the Doubt
- Thanksgiving Day
- How to Demolish GOP Propaganda 101
- St. Joan of the Tundra Displays Her Wounds
- The Final Four...or Six to Decide Fate of Public Option
- Obama On an Even Keel With Public
- Zero For Thirty-One: Lessons From the Loss in Maine
- The Brooks Maneuver
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: GQR Poll Shows Huge Support for Prevention Investment
- The ACORN Derangement Syndrome Goes Viral
- Refocusing the Health Reform Debate
- Public Option Held Hostage: What Now?
- Dionne: Health Reform Progress Historic
- Twitter
- Health Care Reform As Platform for the Future
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston Calls for National Infrastructure Bank
- Paranoia on the Upswing
- Reid's Compromise Bill: The Timetable
- Tomasky: Blue Dogs Underestimate Their Latitude
- The CBO Scores the Senate Bill
- Three Keys to Dem Success in '10
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Health Reform Fear-Mongers Lack Traction
- Don't Count Out Cost Controls Yet
- Democrats – Don’t be misled. The media is going to call Obama’s new Afghan strategy a “betrayal” of the Democratic base – but it’s not. It’s actually a decisive rejection of the Republican/Neo-Conservative strategy of the “Long War”
- AP Poll: Fund Health Reform by Taxing Rich
- More Evidence to Support Health Care Reform
- GOP Quaffs the Kool-Aid in FL
- Polls: Solid Support for Health Reform in Swing Districts
- Disappointingly Predictable
- Blundering Blue Dogs Have a Shot at Redemption
- Dems 4 for 4 in Special Elections for House Seats Since '08
- The President in Section 60
- Obama Juggling Health Reform, Afghanistan, Polls
- Turnout Not Main Factor in NJ, VA
- Tea Party of Doom
- New Ads Press Sen. Lincoln on Public Option
- The Texas Tribune Example
- CA's Leadership Crisis a Challenge for Dems
- The House Vote: Lux's Cheers and Sneers
- Roots of the GOP woman problem
- Screwing of Older Workers Could Spell Trouble for Dems
- The House Health Reform Vote
- Judis, Dionne: Elections Not Just Local, Base-Tending Needed
- Theories For the 2009 Turnout Calamity
- Who Were Those Masked Voters?
- Tom Schaller's Question for Team Obama
- Double Digit Unemployment: The Blame Meme
- Nancy Pelosi's Detractors
- Bowers: Youth Vote Key to '09 Elections
- Sabato: Turnout Sealed GOP Win in VA
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Chill, Dems
- Creamer and Lux: Dems Must Learn the Lessons, Act Boldly
- The Legislative Results
- First, the Good News...
- Political Deja Vu All Over Again
- Christie Wins New Jersey
- McDonnell Takes Virginia
- Party Affiliation? Who, Me?
- The Big Ten (Elections Today)
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Right's Blame Game Falls Flat
- Google Blasting Virginia
- Obama's Health Reform Strategy: How Effective?
- Obama's Below-the-Radar Victories
- WhipCast
- Health Reform Differences Narrow
- 'Progressive Legislative Exchanges' Needed to Tap Dem Ideas
- A Moment of Truth for Centrist Dems
- TDS Co-Editor Bill Galston: Warning Flags for 'Bold Action'
- Out of sight, out of mind
- Juan Cole gives Obama high marks on policy on Iraq, Iran and Pakistan
- Is Obama's Activist Network Hobbled by the DNC?
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants Action on Climate Change
- What does an opt-out look like?
- 'Chevy Tax,' Opt-Out's Reverberations, Lieberman's Motives
- Important New D-Corps Study: Congressional Battleground Stable and Within Normal Historical Range
- TDS Co-Editor Bill Galston Warns of Danger Signs: "Even if People Don't Like the Republicans, They Might Still Vote for Them"
- Virginia Isn't Really About Obama
- Creamer: Every Dem Senator Must Support an Up or Down Vote
- Wyden Battles to Broaden 'Public Option' Eligibility
- Breaking: Reid to Offer Triggerless, 'Opt-Out' Reform Bill
- Twitter Shuts Down Connecticut GOP
- About Those Sagging Approval Ratings
- Wake up, MSM commentators. “Obama vs. Fox” is not about you. The issue is whether a TV network that actively organizes anti-Obama street demonstrations deserves to be treated the same way as networks that uphold traditional journalistic standards.
- Lux: 'Huge Victory' on Health Reform This Year
- More Health Headaches for the States
- Hiatus
- Democrats: forget CSI, here are two real mysteries to solve this weekend
- Father of the Public Option Pulls Trigger
- Dems Should Front-Load Regulatory Provisions of Health Reform
- Bowers: Lose the Base, Lose the Election
- Deeds Undone By Obama? No.
- Public Option Gains Traction, Heat's on Reid
- Southern Outlier
- Rep. Grayson's Creative Challenge
- MSM's Free Ride for Faux News
- Opting Out
- Job Tax Credit As Second Stimulus
- Blame Where It Is Due
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston Says Keep Health Reform Honest
- New D-Corps focus groups show deep split between conservative Republicans and rest of America
- Is Tax on Health Benefits a 'Poison Pill'?
- War With Iran: Not So Fast
- Automatic for the People
- The On-Paper Tiger Has a Ways To Go
- The Case for a Public Option -- On a Fast Track
- Our Line in the Sand
- Time To Get Obsessive About Cloture
- Obama Formidable in Big Picture
- Two "Ceilings" in New Jersey
- "Green Shoots" On Climate Change?
- Two Perspectives On Cracking the Whip
- The Rottweiler and the Chihuahuas
- Military Strategy for Democrats Part 2: The key issue in Afghanistan isn’t the number of troops, it’s the mission that they’re given – and that’s why the military doctrine and strategy of “counterinsurgency” is totally inadequate as a guide
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Public Wants More Economic Reform
- Snowe Vote Sets Stage for Creative Compromise
- Tale of Two Senators
- Picking Your Poison
- Military Strategy for Democrats: The key issue in Afghanistan isn’t the number of troops we send, it’s the mission that they’re given – and that’s why the military doctrine and strategy of “counterinsurgency” is totally inadequate as a guide
- Who Triggers the Public Option?
- From the Conservative Grassroots
- Cause and Effect
- The Art of 'Winning Ugly'
- DCorps Analysis: GOP 'Brand' Tanking
- Next Challenge For "The Progressive Block"
- The Right Reacts to The Prize
- Obama's Nobel May Drive Right Over the Edge
- Passing Health Reform to States Complicates Heated 2010 Gov Races
- State-Based Health Reform and 2010
- Public Option Compromises
- Reform, Not Revolution, in Health Care
- European Socialism: Undead
- Stirrings of Bipartisanship in GOP Toward Health Reform?
- A Textbook Case of "Question Order Bias"
- The Debates We Are Not Having On Iran
- The Palin of Wonk World
- Public Opinion and the Economy
- Europe 1944
- Saving Face to Get to 60
- Health Reform Endgame in the Senate Finance Committee
- GOP's Great White Hopes--Now and Later
- Watch out Dems -- the Town Hall protesters are not accurately described as “racists”. They are xenophobic “nativists” and Dems will shoot themselves in the foot – and screw themselves in 2010 – if they don’t see the difference
- Political Murder-Suicide?
- New Health Reform Wrinkle: The Cantwell Compromise
- So WHO should apologize?
- On-Paper Tiger
- Revolutionary Skepticism
- Rep. Grayson Dust-Up: Another MSM Exercize in False Equivalency
- Robert Creamer: Public Option Still Viable
- Bad Senate! Recess Canceled!
- Obama the Marxist
- Anti-Abortion Health Reform Amendment Defeated
- The Public Option: More Chances Ahead
- Understanding Reconciliation
- Public Option: Two Setbacks, Long Way To Go
- Motes and Beams
- Ways To Skin Cat
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira Cites Uptick in Support for Obama on Health Reform
- Collateral Damage of the Health Reform Fight: Mitt Romney '12
- Hamsher: Two Dozen Blue Dogs Have Supported 'Public Option'
- Some Revolution
- Obama Approval Ratings in Key Swing States Suggest Ad-Buys
- Pragmatic Choices for the Democratic Party
- WATCH OUT DEMOCRATS: the success of the conservative undercover “sting” operation against ACORN is going to unleash a wave of copycat attacks. Common sense can prevent them from succeeding.
- VA, NJ Races Tightening Up
- Transparency In Czars
- Public Option Needs 2-3 Votes to Advance
- That Socialist, Ken Burns
- Abramowitz: Repeat of 1994 'Highly Unlikely'
- Meanwhile, Back in the House....
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Does Wyden Offer Last Chance For True Reform?
- Medical Malpractice In Context
- We're Still Subsidizing Climate Change
- Snowe's "Trigger" and "Democratic Civil War"
- Obama, Health Reform Support Solid As Congress Mulls Amendments
- Can opinion polls be used to measure the growing irrationality and delusional thinking in American politics? Here’s a discussion of how it can be done.
- Moderation Breaking Out All Over
- Preview of Coming Distractions
- TDS Co-Editor Teixeira: Obama Popularity Still High
- TDS Co-Editor Greenberg Touts Ground-Breaking Book on Elections
- Unreconciled: The Dangers of the Growing Demand for Using Reconciliation To Enact Health Reform
- Financing Health Reform
- Public Opinion and Health Reform: Opposition Trend Has Stopped
- Obama's Media Blitz Impressive
- David Brooks and Anti-Anti-Racism
- The Dean-Lieberman Fallback Position?
- TDS Strategy Memo – Part III -- Dems must develop local activities that can evolve into enduring local community social and cultural institutions.
- Obama Puts the Ground Missile Defense Hobby Horse Back in the Toy Chest
- U.S. Health Care: Poor Grades from Consumers
- Big Insurance Bootlicking: How Low Can They Go?
- The Dialectics of the Baucus Plan
- TDS Strategy Memo – Part II -- Dems must develop a deeply committed and highly organized group of volunteers specifically dedicated to representing and advocating a core message.
- What the Tea Party Folk Are Reading
- Health Reform Challenge: Leveraging the Tube
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Watch Those Unemployment Numbers!
- TDS STRATEGY MEMO: the strategic failures this summer were the combined result of three different mistakes, not just one. They involve more than just the health care campaign and require a coherent, multi-pronged Democratic strategy to correct.
- RIP Jody Powell
- Branding Persons and Policies as 'Socialist': The Progressive Response
- Through the Looking Glass
- Three tiny little points about Saturday’s vast and giant “two million man” march
- Is Joe Wilson a Useful Idiot? Do Democrats Need Their Own Crazies?
- Burying Bipartisanship
- TDS Co-Editor Teixera: Obama's Speech Clarified Health Reform for Viewers
- Where does the conservative Tea Party movement go from here?
- Conservatism and South Cackalacky
- Needed: More Ads Defending Government
- Tim Pawlenty Climbs Aboard the Crazy Train
- Joe Wilson the Hero
- Results from D-Corps Focus Group -- Obama’s Speech Moves Swing Voters to Support Reform
- Exceeding Expectations
- Obama Turns Corner in Health Address
- TDS Co-Editor Ruy Teixeira: Conservatives Fear Clarity on Health Reform
- The Problem With a Public Option "Trigger"
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Obama Needs Fear As Well As Hope
- Obama Health Speech Pre-Spin
- Obama's Moment: Keeping it Simple
- Holding Republicans Accountable For Obstruction
- Game Reset
- It’s time for mainstream journalists to stop being intimidated by the bullies at Fox News and the Republican Party. It’s time for them to stand up and defend what they know is the truth- to show that they are not “descended from fearful men.”
- Labor Day
- Closed Vote
- Can Proposed 'Trigger Mechanism' Work?
- Policing the Crazy People
- Franken Chills Skeptics on Health Reform
- Seniors, Obama and 2010
- Who's Really On the GOP Hit List?
- TDS Co-Editor William Galston: Health Reform and Trust in Government
- Dem Strategists See Health Reform Win
- Lapdog Media Coverage of Health Hearings Serves GOP
- The Public Option and "Tactical Extremism"
- School Daze
- Bloggers See Brighter Prospects for Health Care Reform
- Whaddya Mean, "We?"
- McDonnell Backpedals
- Real Health Security's Collective Foundation
- Obama Ready To Lay Down Health Reform Markers
- Obama's Cred Tested on Taxing Health Benefits
- The "Welfare Wedge" Is Back
- The Attack On "Redistribution"
- Dialing It In
- Next Stop For Japan: Ideology?
- A Name For Our Dying Decade: "The Ooze"
- The Bad Huck Takes Over
- The Constant Challenge of Creating an Effective Left Flank
- Damned If He Did
- District by District Impact of Health Reform Bill
- Throwing Romney to the Wolves
- Pre-Spinning the EMK Memorials
- Steele Says Medicare's So Bad We Have To Protect It
- After Kennedy: Obama's Burden...and Ours
- Pollster Says Beware of Polls on Health Reform
- Dreams Into Laws
- The Ghost of LBJ
- The Lion Sleeps
- Storm Warnings
- The Party of Medicare
- The Return of Rudy
- Are Independents Overrated?
- The Delusion of Journalism Without the Internet
- From Euphoria to Real Hope
- Minority Report
- The Schiavo Saga and "Death Panels"
- There are two significantly different ways to interpret the latest Washington Post poll -- with two quite distinct implications for democratic strategy. Dems should consider both possible perspectives and not just one.
- The Stickiness of Craziness
- Public Wants Bipartisan Kabuki?
- What Price "Bipartisanship?"
- Truth and Consequences
- Another 2012 Sounding
- Don't Sweat It
- Health Care Reform: 'Low-Hanging Fruit' Strategy Takes Shape
- Big Stakes, Big Risk
- The Public Option and Its Passionate Defenders
- Democrats: In objecting to people who bring guns to town halls, don’t insult the large numbers of Americans who carry weapons for legitimate reasons. The majority are considerate of others and do not bring guns into settings where they do not belong.
- Can Co-Ops Be a Public Option?
- RIP Robert Novak
- Clash At the End of the Tunnel
- Setting the Record Straight About 2008
- "My" Medicare
- Dems: we need to face the fact that the health care campaign suffered a significant setback in the last few weeks. Obama and the Dems lost needed support and even lost control of the whole reform narrative. We need to prevent this from happening again
- Lupica Scalds Town Hall Swiftboaters
- Update: DNC Video Collage Reports on Peaceful Town Halls
- Job One Remains--Jobs
- The Invisible Town Hall Meetings
- Truth-Squadding Health Reform
- Dems: don’t misread the new Gallup poll about the effect of the health care protests – it actually provides clear guidance on how Democrats can most effectively frame the issue.
- Immigration and Health Reform
- Counting Chickens
- Groan. Here we go again. Here’s yet another poll question about 9/11 that also doesn’t really prove that Dems are as nutty as Republicans.
- 'Tele-Town' Halls Stop GOP Circus
- An Idea For Chuck Norris and Company
- Time for Informed Seniors to Step Up -- in a Big Way
- Public Engagement Without Craziness
- Right Beneath the Surface
- The Why of Town Halls
- Refuting the Absurd
- Should Town Hall Meetings Matter?
- There are certain very instructive similarities between the teabag/health care reform protesters of today and the student protest movement of the 1960’s – and also one profound and fundamental difference.
- Conspiracy Theories and Appointments
- Rupert Murdoch's Line in the Sand
- Can MSM, Progressive Activists Bring Health Security to America?
- Palin's Tactical Advice
- Obama Deranges Terrified Citizens
- Reich: Astroturfers Protests Lack Roots
- Polling Methodology 101
- New Gallup Poll on Abortion: Back To Normal
- Will Single-Payer Fans Sink Health Reform?
- The Sotomayor Vote
- Sotomayor Confirmation Bodes Well
- Limits on Presidential Sausage-Making
- Like A Bad Penny...
- A simple suggestion for how to handle the Town Meetings on Health Care:
- So Far, So Good
- 'Health Care ER' Campaign Targets House Republicans
- Southern Money Race
- Kill Health Reform, Save Granny, and Stop the Nazis
- The Democratic Party Is More Diverse Than Leadership Likes To Admit
- Sebelius: A Challenge for August
- Dems Dominate Party ID By State
- A quick lesson: how to misinterpret a poll to prove that Democrats are as nutty as Republicans.
- Texas As the Lode Star State
- Small Mobs
- Obama's 2008 Coalition: Not Expanding, But Intact
- Pundits Mull Health Care Reform Strategy for August Recess
- The Conservative movement has created a Frankenstein. It has broken out of the laboratory and now threatens the people who brought it to life.
- The GOP's Vanilla Option
- Health Care and Public Opinion: Room For Improvement
- Repositioning Obama
- Brewskis for Brotherhood
- Cross-Fire
- Exaggerated Democratic Discontent
- New Polls on Obama, Congress, Health Care Reform Suggest Strategy Options
- Teixeira: Obama Improves U.S. Global Image
- What Makes Dogs Blue?
- Making the Case on Health Care Reform
- The Public Option, Single-Payer and "The Core of Reform" in Health Care
- One for the Road
- The System and Health Reform
- Not Just In California
- Bring on the Fire, Mr. President
- Errrr, Errrr
- Bye-Bye Bunning
- Cash Cows and Health Care Quality
- Houses Divided
- House Dems Running Strong for 2010
- Racial Profiling and Beer
- The "Leftward Surge"
- Is Obama Redefining Bipartisanship?
- Obama's Approval Trend Predictable
- Kristol, Docs and Cops
- Political Calculations For Democrats On Health Reform
- CA Budget Battle Shows How Ideologues Can Undermine Health Care
- Whose Costs Are Being Contained?
- Left Behind
- Let’s be honest. In international affairs, beneath clichés of “strength” versus “weakness” there are hard, inescapable military realities. It is these realities – not political rhetoric – that define what America actually can and cannot do.
- Pushing Toward Closure (and Cloture) on Health Care
- Fun for Fiscal Hawks in California
- The GOP's Amazing Talking Parrot
- Palin Or Else
- Health Reform and the Specter of 1994
- Public Wants Govt-Sponsored Scientific Research
- Just when you thought journalistic ethics couldn’t get any worse
- It's About Cost AND Coverage
- All in "The Family"
- NVRA Enforcement Needed to Secure Dems' Future
- Health Care Dilemmas
- Calling the Doctor
- Will 'Blue Dogs' Block Health Care Reform?
- The Less-Information Lobby
- Demography and the Culture Wars
- State Legislative Progress Reports
- DNC/OFA Health Care Reform Ad Up and Running
- Money Talks
- Opinions of Obama Follow 2008 Election Results
- GOP Dancing On the Precipice With Sotomayor
- Public Backs Action on Global Warming
- Palin's New Gig
- Primary School
- How Stupid Talking Points Get Started
- Ho Hum Hearings?
- Approval Ratings: No Zero-Sum Game
- Seizing the 'Historic Moment'
- Calvin and America
- Trying, Trying Again on Stimulus
- What happened yesterday in Iran?
- Walking and Chewing Gum
- Concordat
- Health Reform Movement Needs Energizing
- Public Support for Sotomayor Among 'Highest Recorded'
- Cloture and Party Unity
- Health Care Pushmi-Pullyu
- Is Palin Toast?
- That Deeply Divisive Tim Pawlenty
- Second Stimulus: Payroll Tax Cut?
- Hey, just exactly when did neoconservative Republicans suddenly become experts in leading movements for social justice? I don’t remember that happening, do you?
- Modern Conservatism's Warped Values
- Fixing Strategic 'Blind Spots'
- Gallup Double Loads Its Ideology Poll
- Surprise! Obama Owns Congress
- The Palin Cult Kicks It Up a Notch
- Can 'Party Discipline' Make 60 Votes Count?
- Independence Day
- Strategic Fumbles in 2008
- Needed: Simplified Framing for Health Care Reform
- Strength and Strategy
- Inside the True Conservative Mind
- We Wuz Robbed!
- Measuring Success
- Palin Reconsidered
- Senator Franken
- The Sixtieth Senator
- Governing as Penance
- Is Affirmative Action a Game-Changer On Sotomayor?
- Not-So-Happy Fiscal New Year's Eve
- Cost Concerns Drive Opinions Favoring Public Option
- Securing Health Care Reform Left Dems Can Support
- Coming Soon to a Demagogue Near You
- Obama's Third Option in Iran
- Time For a National Budget
- "The Family" and Christian Right Damage Control
- Health Care "Swing Vote"
- Polling Deficits
- No Time For Caution
- 'Go Galt,' Rush!
- Final Thoughts on the Sanford Saga
- Obama, Lincoln and Obstructionism
- Income and Education Do Not Divide Obama's Friends and Enemies
- Health Care Public Option: Not Just Whether But How
- If A Governor Walks In the Woods, and Nobody's There To See It....
- Section 5: Still on the Books, But Barely
- Obama Still Wins
- Here Comes a New Conservative Narrative – the Protests in Iran Validate the Invasion of Iraq
- Grassroots Bipartisanship Opportunity
- Of Two Deranged Minds About Obama
- The Progressive Block
- States on the Brink
- Super-Blue Dogs
- Yesterday's Polls and 2010
- With Expectations Duly Lowered....
- Deficits and Health Care
- More Evidence of Stable Pro-Choice Majority
- Health Care Money Woes
- Tweeting in the Dark
- Newt Gingrich and Religious Realignment
- Greenberg's Lessons From the Clinton Health Plan
- Why Rove Failed
- "Foreign Bank Bailout"
- Something very odd is going on in conservative thinking
- Iran and American Narcissism
- "Lessons" of History
- Gallup on Ideology: Nothing To See Here, Folks
- Redistricting's Prequel
- Leaders
- Understanding the “psychological logic” of the conservative response to extremist violence
- Public Supports 'Activist Government'
- Goosing Ghosts
- The "Warriors" Strike Again
- Conservatives Should Disown Hate Speech
- Virginia Primary Post-Mortem
- Obama and the Left (Part 432 and Counting)
- National Security: Edge to Dems
- Americans' Data Deficit
- God Rains on Turnout
- Virginia's Gubernatorial Primary: Strange and Interesting
- Prevention Now a Top Health Care Reform Priority
- St. Joan of the Tundra: The Official Hagiography
- "European-Style Socialism" and the EU Elections
- Health Care Industry Has Huge Stake in Reform
- Racing to the Bottom
- DCorps: The Center Holds for Obama
- Toward Single Payer Reform -- Step by Step
- No Parity of Pain
- Complex Public Attitudes Dog Health Care Reform
- Still More Evidence That Abortion Sentiments Haven't Changed
- 2010 Cycle Heating Up Early
- Transformative Moment?
- 2012 Talk Already!
- Newt Backtracks On Sotomayor, Sorta Kinda
- Table-Setting in New Jersey and Virginia
- Health Care Reform: The Price of Inaction
- Obama's Republicans
- Honky Chateau
- 'Money, Boots on the Ground, and the Passion to Win'
- Spoiling For a Fight
- Murder in a Church Foyer
- Health Care Battlefield Takes Shape
- The Court's Many "Diversity Hires"
- Lakoff: GOP 'Stealth' Attack Seeks to Reframe Empathy
- Republican Strategy From the Way-Back Machine
- Galston On Democracy Promotion and the Cairo Speech
- Public Support for Immigration Reform Rising
- First Polling on Sotomayor Positive
- Will Republicans Delude Themselves on Hispanics and Sotomayor?
- Rational and Non-Rational Arguments Against Gay Marriage
- National Sales Tax: Tough Sell to Progressives?
- Sotomayor Pick May Seal FL for Obama in '12
- Newt Tweets
- Guilt By Pronunciation
- Editorialists Weigh In On Sotomayor
- Sonia Sotomayor and Harriet Miers
- Prop 8 Upheld, But So Too Are Existing Marriages
- Where's the Applause for Obama's Attack on Preemption?
- Obama, Dems Challenged to Improve Government's Image
- How Far Will Sotomayor's Opponents Go?
- One More Conflicting Poll on Abortion
- Closing the Confidence Gap
- Is the South the GOP's Base or Shackle?
- The Conservative Backlash Against Crist
- Shrewd Choice of "Debating" Partner
- Strategy Memo: the situation in Iraq is deteriorating. Democrats must start now to prepare for the coming Republican smear attacks that will try to blame Obama for whatever goes wrong.
- Huntsman and the Strategic Underpinnings of an Appointment
- Republicans Condemn "Democrats" and "Socialism," But Not "Democrat Socialists"
- The Abortion Issue and Democratic Strategy
- Democracy Corps: National Security "Gap" Closed
- California Meltdown
- Obama's Compromises: 'Tolerable Exceptions' or Sell-Out?
- Barack Obama and the Fear of God
- Ezra Klein's New Gig
- 'Millennial Generation' Leads Pro-Democratic Shift
- Abortion Poll Roundup
- Torture and the Pelosi Obsession
- More About the Unbearable Lightness of Abortion Polls
- Jesus and Joe Lieberman
- Business and the Socialist Democrat Party
- Annual Polling Meeting: Video Interview Clips
- Obama, Notre Dame and the Intra-Catholic Struggle
- Now For the Hard Part
- No Buyers Remorse on Nullification
- The Big Hole in the "Pro-Life" Tilt
- Florida Opening
- GOP's S-Word Follies Invite Ridicule
- The GOP's New "Evil Empire"
- Expertise and Ideology
- Teixeira: Obama, Plans Draw Broad Support
- The Other Shoe Dropping On State Stimulus Money
- Steele's Two-Cushion Scratch Shot
- Fading Culture Wars a Downer for GOP
- Time To Bury "Judicial Activism" Slur
- 2008 Without John Edwards
- Opening Wedge On Health Reform?
- Elitist Demagoguery
- Let’s be fair to Resurgent Republic – they know what they’re doing. They’re not trying to measure opinions in the most neutral possible way; they are field-testing questions to see which ones produce results the users of their data need
- 'Swift Boat' Ads Launched to Stop Health Reform
- Is Gun Control Still "Third Rail" for Dems?
- Empty Threats Behind Court Fight
- Rush to the Right in Georgia
- Governors: 2010 Could Be Bad Year For Incumbents
- Who Will Cover State and Local Governments?
- Palin Is No Dan Quayle
- The Anti-Confirmation Machine Warms Up
- 'Regional Party of the South' Meme Busted
- Luntz Noodles on GOP Health Care Strategy
- Are Court Appointments of Supreme Indifference To the Public?
- The "So's-Your-Old-Man" Approach to Voting Rights
- Joe the Theologian
- Specter As Trojan Horse
- Reality Check For Republican "Reformers"
- The Return of John C. Calhoun
- An Open Letter From Stan Greenberg to Ed Gillespie, head of Resurgent Republic
- Republicans Ready To Be Thrown Into Briar Patch of Court Fight
- Jack Kemp: Last of the Big Tent Republicans
- Georgia Republicans: Surly, and Not That Healthy
- The Tea Party of the Cultural Right
- Demographic Change Gives Electorate a Blue Tint
- What is "right-wing extremism?"
- Section 5 On the Ropes?
- Profiles in Budgetary Courage
- Delusional Element
- Will Obama's Template Transform Race Relations?
- Valhalla Syndrome, Southern Edition
- Republicans Spinning Specter
- When Republican Moderates Walked the Earth
- The Specter Flip: Mild Glee Everywhere
- "Libertarians" For a Torture State
- The tea party protesters were not all traditional conservatives. Many combined a small business viewpoint and “populist” distrust of large institutions - including the Republican Party. They are not “in the bag” for the GOP
- Galston on Torture Investigations
- In Praise of the Chatty Class
- GOP Lurches Back to "Checks and Balances"
- Pandemic Flu and the Stimulus Bill
- Obama's Measured Strategy on Torture
- Obama's Popularity Among the Classes and the Masses
- Post-Confirmation State Landscape
- Cuba Policy Could Tilt Elections
- Texas Republicans Sour on America
- Right Track Rising
- Breakthrough On Defense Budget?
- More Factional De-Labelling
- Democrats: Let’s face it: the two terms “the left” and “centrists” have become so vague and imprecise they no longer have any use in serious discussions about Democratic strategy. They degrade the clarity of any argument in which they appear
- Worn-Down Wedges
- 'Center-Right Nation' Meme Shredded
- National Service Takes Long-Awaited Step Forward
- Obama's "Third Way"
- Smearing Napolitano
- McGovern: Military Quagmires Delay Recovery
- Budget Reconciliation Though the Ages
- Red Beast
- Another Setback for St. Joan of the Tundra
- Democrats: The Tea Party protests weren’t just “no big deal” – they were a major political disappointment for the conservative right and a massive disaster for Fox News. The big winner of the day was actually Barack Obama
- Perry Raises Rebel Banner
- Nice Guy Finishes First In MN Senate Saga
- Tea Parties: Laugh At the Craziness, But Also Watch and Learn
- Tea Parties Draw Quarter Million
- The “Movement” Roots of Obama’s Political Strategy --- Martin Luther King’s campaigns in Birmingham and Chicago and the congressional campaigns of King’s Top Aide Andrew Young.
- Tea Parties: Kaboom or Bust?
- Political Tests For Religion
- AstroTea Central
- Zany Conservatives Roundup
- Westen: Dems Need Better 'Branding'
- Obama-Ordered Rescue Confounds GOP Echo Chamber
- One Vote, One Tax Dollar
- No Clean Hands For Republican Critics
- More on Earned Privilege, "Merit," and Tea Parties
- Polarization and History
- New Polls Strengthen Obama's Mandate
- Bipartisanship and Successful Polarization
- Demographic Flux Drives Political Strategy
- Twitter Shows Its Purpose
- The Most Polarizing Column?
- Part II -- The new CAP report on American Political Ideology reveals the existence of a substantial group of “ambivalent” or “inconsistent” voters – Here’s what Democrats need to know
- Independents Rule
- The new Center for American Progress report “The State of American Political Ideology 2009 reveals the existence of a substantial group of “ambivalent” or “inconsistent” voters – Here’s what Democrats need to know in order to understand them
- Testing Deep South Racial Stereotypes
- Big Demos, Political Strategy Need Narrower Focus
- Giving Blackmail a Bad Name
- Big Picture on the Newspaper Crisis
- Gay Marriage: From "Why?" To "Why Not?"
- Whither the "Bayh Group"?
- Spinning the Budget Vote
- Iowa Same-Sex Marriage Ruling: No Quick Reversal
- OBama Solidifies Support As Voter Optimism Rises
- Heartland Breakthrough for Same-Sex Marriage?
- 'Rules for Radicals Turned Realists'
- Franken: How We Got Here
- "No Rest Stop On the Misinformation Highway"
- The Curious Case of Culture11
- Can Obama Deploy Some LBJ Strategy?
- House GOP's Flat-Earth Budget
- No Foolin'
- "Centrist" Villains
- Edsall Surveys the Economists
- Movement in the Right Direction
- Is the Senate a Field of Broken Progressive Dreams?
- Don't Tax Rich Uncles!
- Obama Af-Pak Strategy Gains Qualified Support
- Rolling Back the Madness--But How Far?
- In Defense of the 'Prompter
- The House GOP "Budget"
- "Democrats In Disarray!"
- 2010 Campaign: Millionaire Acres
- Two Telling Questions
- Specter Clarifies Dems '10 Strategy
- Some “Inside Baseball” at the Obama Press Conference -- Better Eye Contact and a Clearer Narrative about the Budget.
- Press Entitlement Reform
- Whither Cap-and-Trade?
- Needed: Economic Pitchmen/Women
- Flooding the Zone
- Elephants With Short Memories
- Progressive Fears About the Bank Rescue Plan
- Health Care Reform Strategy Updates
- The Future of the Press
- Holy Moley!
- Obama's 'Teachable Moment'
- Teixeira Versus Cost on New Progressive America
- Outlets for Angry Populism
- GOPers Conflicted on AIG Tax
- AIG Bonus Coverage: A Pinata
- "Arrogance" and Ideology
- Hey Big (GOP) Spender
- Health Care and the Budget
- Republicans and the Bristol Palin Vote
- EFCA--Still Alive and Kicking
- Dems Roll GOP on Economic Issues
- AIG Fever--the Broader Stakes for Obama
- "Zimbabweans" To Ignore Sanford on Simulus
- Monday Strategy Updates
- Rand and Conservatives: A Reminder To Galt Fans
- Public Opinion, Political Strategy and Leadership
- Steele Wheels
- Citi's Big Stand Against Socialism
- Two Big New Studies On Progressive Gains
- Obama's Critical Choice About Focus
- Refuting Depression Revisionism
- Thank God the Election Wasn't Close
- Dissing Single-Payer: Wise Strategy or Delaying the Inevitable?
- At Last -- A Progressive Echo Chamber
- Continuing to build the Obama brand
- Supreme Confusion on Racial Gerrymandering
- It’s time to shine a light on the decentralized but reinforcing smear campaign against Barack Obama – a campaign that stretches from the extremist fringe to leading conservative political commentators.
- Earmarks and "Small Ball"
- Made Men
- Monday Strategy Round-Up
- Policy-Based Budgeting
- U.S.-Israeli Disconnect
- Get Ready Democrats -- Obama’s opponents are getting set to “Unleash Hell”
- U.S. Rep. John Galt
- Health Care Reform Strategy Taking Shape, Part II
- An Unhappy Day For Government Contractors
- "Government Schools"
- Michael Steele's Other Issues
- La La La Can't Hear You!
- New Health Reform Strategy Takes Shape
- The Ultimate David Brooks Column
- Israeli Echoes
- Sebelius To HHS
- Raised Stakes
- Needed: More Discussion About Party-Building
- Bobby "Digger" Jindal
- Shifting the Focus to 2010
- Right-Wing Populist Illusions
- Ruffini Bashes Joe the Plumber
- Dueling Headlines On Obama Budget
- Jindal Under the Vocano
- Obama's Health Care Plan Designed For Senate
- Vitter's World of Trouble
- Jindal's Bad National Debut
- Obama's Address Wins Broad Praise
- Replaying the Tapes
- Redefining the "Center"
- Gubernatorial Grandstanding from the GOP
- Uptick In 'Symbolically Conservative, Operationally Liberal' Constituency May Steer Future
- More On Health Care and the Budget
- Strategy Short Takes
- Palin-Santelli
- Fury of the "Winners"
- Health Care and the Federal Budget
- The Lure of the Cabinet
- Early Virginia Gubernatorial Preview
- It may be time for the Dems to order a bigger “Big Tent”
- Sixteen Years Ago
- Tomasky on "Grassroots Bipartisanship"
- Two Takes On Political Journalism's Direction
- Worst Numbers Moving Up
- GOP Economic Predictions Less Than Impressive
- American Left and the Challenge of Globalization
- The military way of thinking about “strategy” may help Democrats to figure out their own.
- Lincoln and Presidential Legacies
- Copernicus Vindicated?
- Liberating a Mandate Through Citizen Lobbyists
- Does Obama Need a "Loyal Opposition" From the Left?
- New DCorps Study: Public Affirms Obama's Vision, Direction
- The Geography of Doom
- Gregg Follies May Hurt GOP
- Judd Out--Census Safer
- "Bipartisanship's" Outcasts
- Build Your Own Israeli Government
- A Note on Civility:
- Stimulus Conference Deal: Winners and Losers
- Galston on Obama and Reagan Parallels
- Israeli Elections: Another Problem for Obama
- Readers vs. Users
- "Bipartisanship" and Obama's Approval Ratings
- Senate Vote on Stimulus Shows a Hand Well-Played
- To Obama's Progressive Critics: Take a Deep Breath
- The Missing Rationale
- GQR Poll: 64 Percent Support Obama on Stimulus
- Getting the State Aid Cuts Straight
- Cable News Networks Favor GOP on Stimulus, 2-1
- The Republican Party and the “Pretend to be Crazy” Strategy
- Obama Separates Sheep From Goats
- Strategy Round-up
- Through a Glass Darkly
- Quick Zeitgeist Shift
- Obama Deploys His Cybertroops on Stimulus Package
- Public Opinion and Political Strategy: Ruy Teixeira on Attitudes Toward Obama's Economic Recovery Plan
- Subbing for Daschle
- Obama the Sociologist – Obama’s fundamental political strategy is based on a sophisticated sociological perspective that political scientists, campaign managers and even many progressives largely ignore.
- The Gregg Deal: Annoying the GOP
- Behind the Gregg Appointment
- Some Final Words On "Ending the Culture Wars"
- Happy Little Party of "NO"
- On "Ending the Culture Wars," Part 2
- The Meaning of "Zero"
- The Gregg Gambit
- Lilly Ledbetter Vindicated
- Keeping Young Voters Down-Ballot
- EFCA's Enemies, Missed Opportunities, Dubious Polling...
- Their Master's Voice
- On "Ending the Culture Wars"
- That Godless Liberal Herbert Hoover
- Votes a-Popping
- Anti-Abortionists Search For a Strategy
- Hidden Strength in Obama's Political Capital
- "I Won" and Bipartisanship
- Democrats: the mainstream media let Bush’s PR gang turn them into Republican propagandists – let’s make sure we don’t let them do it again.
- Time is Ripe for Dems to Tap Celebrity Power
- Obama's Teachable Moment
- Meanwhile, Over To Our Right
- Torture's End
- Rewiring the White House
- Obama and Values-Based Messaging
- Silver--Or Green--Lining to the Economic Crisis
- Writers Mull Clues from Obama's 1st Inaugural Address
- Mixed Reviews of the Inaugural
- Change Has Come To America
- A Dream Redeemed
- Inaugural Timetable
- MLK Day 2009
- "A Farewell to Republicans"
- Obama's Fiscal Realism
- Bush: I Meant Well
- Incremental Health Care Reform
- Worst Column Ever?
- Stimulus Package Finalized
- A Teaching Moment
- Barack Obama 2.0
- "Homeland Security USA"
- Chain-Yanking
- "Democrats In Disarray?"
- Confirmation Fights
- Two New Looks At Obama
- GOP Nightmare Map
- Articles, Posts Unpack Obama Stimulus Strategy
- Economic and Political Strategies Distinguished
- Stimulus Proposal Hits First Resistance
- RIP Richard John Neuhaus
- "There Is So Much Work To Be Done"
- RNC Intrigue
- More Fun With Conservatives
- Gunslingers
- Let’s face it. All too often Democrats end up just yelling at each other when they try to discuss long-term political strategy – with the challenges that confront us, it’s urgent that we figure out how to do better.
- Can the GOP Expand Its Demographic Base While Moving Right?
- Is Obama Pre-Compromising the Stimulus Package?
- Confirmation Tips
- Democrats -- Liberal to Conservative -- Still Strongly Support Obama
- Land of Disenchantment
- Fire on the Mountain: Blue/Green Coalitions and Why They Work
- Marxists on the Sidelines
- Silver Linings
- Obama Aloha Boosts Dems
- Happy New Year!
- Dogs That Didn't Bark
- A Toast
- The Uniter
- GOP's "Puff" Daddies
- Third Reconstruction?
- Federalism and the Economic Emergency
- 'Party Unity' Ratings Show Shades of Blue
- Ambassador Kennedy?
- Are Politico’s headlines written by Republicans? –“We Report, You Decide.”
- Good Government, "Pork," and Revenue-Sharing
- Brief Holiday Hiaitus
- Shabby U.S. Infrastructure Offers Historic Opportunity for Dems
- Obama and Grassroots Bipartisanship
- Political Clout Headed West and South
- Labeling the Cabinet
- Enemy of My Enemy
- Real Agenda of Auto Bailout Opponents: Gut the UAW, Weaken Unions
- Celebrities
- MN Senate Race Recount May End in '09
- Paul Weyrich RIP
- The RNC Chair Race
- Rick Warren and the Prop 8 Revolt
- Democrats: there is no such thing as a military strategy called a “Surge.” The term is strategic gibberish that obscures the actual military strategies employed in Iraq in 2007-8 and muddles discussion of the real issues Democrats need to understand
- Strategy Roundup
- No Southern Comfort in the Cabinet?
- Filling Out the Cabinet
- Auto Bailouts and Auto Subsidies
- Franken Grabs Mo
- Obama and "Abortion Reduction"
- A Special Message from Bill Galston, Stan Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira
- Final Turnout Numbers
- The media has an obligation to America and the American people in covering the Blagojevich affair
- Prop 8: Education, Income, Age the Keys
- Meanwhile, to Our North....
- Herbert Hoover Time
- Appointed Senators Often Tank
- Pin the Appointment on the Republican
- The Deep Desire For An "Obamagate"
- Michael Steele, the RLC, and GOP "Diversity"
- 'Tis the Season
- Business Loves Stimulus
- Balanced-Budget Fever
- Blag-Uh-Oh
- Bypassing Bloggers
- Watch Out Democrats: no matter who the hell is peddling it, the whole “Obama vs. the left” discussion is a big, shiny, flashing red cape – and that sharp pain you can feel in your back is the thrust of the matadors’ sword.
- Abandoning the Center
- "Ready-To-Go Projects" Then and Now
- Challenging the 'Bush Kept Us Safe' Meme
- Conservatives Crack the Whip
- Hard Times
- Merkel Meanders
- Do Conservatives Favor a Deep Recession?
- Welcoming the 'New Center'
- Stimulus and the States
- Time to Remember Election Reform
- DCorps: Strong Honeymoon for Obama, With Doubts
- Some Lessons from the GA Run-Off
- Plowing the Same Old Furrows
- Chambliss Gets His Vote Out
- Republicans, Reform and Ideology
- "Center-Right of the Democratic Party"
- GA Run-off: GOP Money Vs. Dem GOTV
- O Canada!
- The GOP and Two Democratic Reform Models
- Georgia Senate Run-Off Tests Voters' Tolerance for Sleaze
- Augean Stables
- Health Consensus, Short-Listers, Iraq Bailout, Midnight Rules...
- A New Slogan for a New Day
- How Should Obama Confront Terror?
- Conservative Paranoia, the South, and the Heartland
- Thanks!
- Relevant and Irrelevant Republicans
- Private Contraction, Public Expansion
- Real South, CAP's Influence, Labor Miffed...
- The relationship between Obama and the Progressives – is it a “battle for the President’s soul” or a “natural division of labor?"
- Gates and Obama's "Bipartisanship" Problem
- "Obama the Centrist"
- Re-Mobilizing the Obama Youth Army
- Behind the "Fairness" Scare
- Big Tent and Clubhouse
- An Ad for Jim Martin
- HRC at State Popular with Public
- Obama and the Georgia Senate Runoff
- Could science rescue the Republican Party?
- Frying Pans and Fires
- Clintonistas and "Change"
- Un-Rapturous
- Did the Internet Ruin National Review?
- Future of the "Fifty-State Strategy"
- Return of the Wonks
- Obama's 'Secret Sauce'
- Lieberman Dodges the Bullet He Fired
- The South, Race and Obama's Presence
- How Obama Leveraged 'Power to the Edge'
- Abortion Policy: "When" and "Why"
- Swingers
- State Fiscal Disasters
- Dems Lead Women Gains in Elective Offices
- Dada Map, White Vote, High Court, GA Run-Off...
- Conservative Truth-Teller
- Obama's Tough Choice: Clinton or Richardson for State
- What To Do With Obama's Army
- Center-Left Country
- Wanted: Strategic Analysis
- So You Want To Go to Washington
- Peach State Showdown Draws McCain
- Why We Lost in California: An Analysis of "No on 8" Field Strategies
- Teixeira on Trends
- Lines Crossed
- The Anatomy of Conservative Self-Deception
- Goodbye To All That
- GOP Fear-Mongers Twist Obama Proposal
- Health Care and Reconciliation
- Demography +Events +Candidate quality +$ = Victory
- The Limits of Demographic Determinism
- Predictive Theories: How Did They Grade Out?
- Rove or Roosevelt?
- Spoils Sport
- Blue Vets, Red Counties, Bipartisan Obstruction...
- The Dispensationalist
- The awesome predictability of Conservative spin
- What Changed?
- Misleading Percentages
- Behind the NC Wins
- Whither the Hard-Core Anti-Abortion Movement
- 64 Years
- New South Trumps Dixie
- Exit the Tax Issue
- Consequences of Proposition 8
- Democrats: An extremely dangerous situation is developing just beneath the radar. We need to be fully prepared.
- Notes Towards an Ideological Profile of the House Democratic Caucus
- Outreach and the White Evangelical Vote
- 44 Years
- Devils in Details
- Downballot Results
- The Big Picture
- Celebration
- Good Times, Less Good Times
- National Exit Findings
- Pennsylvania!
- Since 1920?
- First Results
- Fergit, Hell!
- Voting Problem News
- GOP Whistling Nervously in Dixie
- Prop. 8 and Other Ballot Initiatives
- Voting Machine Screw-Ups, Shortage Testing Dem Voters
- Long Lines Persist
- 32 Years
- Grieving and Victory
- Setting the Stage for State Legislative Elections
- For Your Viewing Pleasure
- House Update: Another Democratic Wave
- Blumenthal: Obama Holding 311 EV's
- Bowers: Dems Will Net Gain at Least Seven Senate Seats
- Fuzzy Buzz on an Obama Administration
- All the Polls Can Tell Us
- New Dem Secretaries of State Boosted Obama's Chances
- A Vote for the Big Orange
- Long Lines and Voting Rights
- Greenberg Responds to McCain Pollster
- Democratic Anxiety
- The Drive for 60 Senators
- Dole's 'False Witness' May Give Hagan Senate Seat
- I'm Not Bush; I'm Tom DeLay!
- Another Morning in America
- "Voter Fraud," Race, and the Conservative Base
- The Tao of Obama
- The Path Not Taken: McCain-Jindal
- Cracked Bellwether
- Early Voting Lines a Good Issue for Dems
- Race and Early Voting
- Bear Market For Elephants
- The Futility of "Redistribution" Attacks on Obama
- Obama Should Share Some Love
- The Housing Collapse and Upscale Voters
- Bayonets Fixed for Battle of Florida
- Rush to Prejudgment
- Backlash?
- Get Yer Robocalls
- That Was the Week That Was
- Rhetorical Enchantment
- McCain's Strange Iowa Obsession Continues
- Thanksgiving in Georgia?
- GOP Plays the Felon Card
- Do the Tighten Up, Part II
- Obamacons Exodus Holds Lesson for Dems
- Socialists and Muslims
- Why We Need Election Reform
- Gay Marriage Wars in California
- Better Barone
- The "He's a Muslim" Rap Persists
- "Most Qualified"
- Pew: Broad Obama Gains
- Two Big Polls Show Big Obama Lead
- Bearing False Witness
- "Communitarian Populism"
- Which Track to Track
- Exit Polls: Not So Fast
- "Spreading the Wealth Around"
- Truthiness Gone Wild
- Obama's Incredible Fundraising Month
- Early Voting: Weapon Against Suppression
- Palin Does SNL, But Not MTP
- The FBI’s last-minute plunge into the 2008 election isn't just dirty partisan politics, its using the police power of the state to influence an election and support the party in power – that’s what they do in one-party dictatorships, not democracies
- ACORN Smear Shows GOP Hypocrisy
- Getting Nasty on the Ground
- Stupid Political Stunts
- Do the Tighten Up
- Joe the Avatar
- Heir Apparent
- Decisive Debate Win Reinforces Momentum for Obama
- Forgotten Believers
- Conservatives Get Their Wish
- Polls Say Obama Wins 3rd Debate
- Blame It On Reality
- Obama Winning In Early Voting
- Palin's Media Muzzle Self-Imposed
- Ayers Distraction Not Likely to Sway Final Debate
- Buckley's Defection
- Caution and Superstition
- The Relevance of Swing Voters, Redux
- Eve of Debate Round-Up
- Whither the Bradley Effect?
- McCain's Divided Government Gambit
- Palin's Radical Friends
- Five Big Purple Trends
- New Post-ABC Poll: Obama Up Ten
- Look Out Dems. Here comes the Mother of All Smear Jobs
- Endgame More About Turnout Than Undecideds
- The New "Welfare Queens"
- Reform First and Barack Obama
- The Exhilirating Freedom Afforded By Failure
- McCain's Strange Iowa Obsession
- Reform First
- The Size of the Current Swing Vote
- Dems Have Modest Prospects in Gov Races
- Avoid the Highs and Lows
- We Don't Need No Stinkin' Planetariums
- Following the Ad Money
- Unchanging the Subject
- Polls Say Obama Won 2nd Presidential Debate
- Second Debate Surprises
- Palin on Entitlements: Just Trust Us
- All the Nastiness the Market Will Bear
- Who's the "Judicial Activist?"
- From Mavericky To Panicky
- Dems, here’s a really powerful response to the Ayers attacks – it slams McCain like a freight train for mendacity and hypocrisy and it comes from a respected columnist at the Chicago Tribune.
- "Barack Obama Is Winning Georgia Right Now"
- King of Bluegrass Endorses Obama
- Erratic McCain Vs. 'No Drama Obama'
- Youth Brigades
- DCorps: Obama Has 'First Real, Sustainable Lead'
- Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan and “that great, wonderful, cheerful gang of folks at WXYZ who bring you the local news, weather and sports”.
- Switchers
- Is Palin Chicken of 'Meet the Press'?
- Michigone
- Minds Made Up
- CNN, CBS Polls: Voters Give Biden Win
- That's Entertainment!
- Palin Polling Poorly As Debate Nears
- Palin, Biden and the Constitution
- Bailout Passes Senate Easily
- Latino Protestants Shift Towards Democrats
- Palin Endorses Constitutional Right to Privacy
- Palin's Abortion Dodge
- Sarah and the Supremes
- GOP to McCain: Change the Subject!
- House, Senate Campaigns Intensify
- House GOP Fiasco: Long Time Coming
- Is there a psychological explanation for John McCain’s recent behavior?
- McCain: Acting Like a Senator
- NC Emerging as Battleground
- A Cheaper Shakedown
- The Lone Ranger Rides Yet Again!
- Desperate GOP Spin
- Now What, Batman?
- Your Tax Dollars At Work: For McCain?
- Wild Ride
- Yo, David Broder and the rest of the debate commentators, those dumb-ass boxing metaphors you’re using are leading us astray.
- Debate Takes: Polls, Focus Groups Give Edge to Obama
- Check out the post-debate polls - and have a nice weekend
- For Those Who Need a Laugh Today....
- The Prisoner's Dilemma
- Who Was That Masked Man?
- Will Voters Tire of McCain's Theatrics ?
- More Chaos
- Two Polls: Debate Must Go On
- What We Learned About John McCain Yesterday
- Move and Counter-Move
- McCain's Fishy Debate Postponement Proposal
- Debating Foreign Relations--and the Economy
- Back to the Fundamentals
- So Where's the Fiorina Ad ?
- Cruella Palin
- The Ultimate Smackdown
- Bailout Backlash
- Help Wanted: Transformation Manager
- End of an Era
- Obama Must use the "R" Word
- Debating While Black
- The GOP's Bottomless Crack Pipe
- Pivotal Week
- Election Day Mess
- Chris Cox, Conservative Heart-Throb
- Messaging the Meltdown for Seniors
- Economics Tuneup
- Rebutting the 'Divided Government' Case for McCain
- McCain's Shrinking Media Fan Club
- Votes and Consequences
- The Money Game Going Forward
- "Stop, Thief!" Cried the Burglar
- Hump Day Round-Up: Class War, Substantive Debates, Early Voting...
- An Open Letter From William Galston
- McCain's Health Plan: Radically Dangerous
- Meltdowns and Morality
- Obama Grabs lead in VA Poll
- McCainomics Revisited
- Live-Blogging the Meltdown
- In the long run, Democrats must win significant working class support -- but in the next six weeks, thoughtful, middle of the road voters may be the most important objective.
- Today's GOP: The Real Bridge to Nowhere
- Approved Messages
- More About St. Joan of the Tundra
- Can Issues Trump Persona?
- Whine and Smear: Second Thoughts on the Right
- Juan Cole Evaluates the Threat of Islamic Terrorism on the Anniversary of Sept 11.
- New/Old Electoral Battlegrounds
- With Beams in Their Eyes
- Messaging, Registration and Turnout Decisions Key to Election
- Life Imitating Parody
- National Security and Risk
- No Issues, Please, Part II
- No Issues, Please
- Schmavericks
- Cartoons
- "Original Mavericks"
- McCain's Character Flaws Fair Game
- The Best Sound-Bites and Brief Quotes from the Democratic Convention in Denver
- Warning: Iraq may be on the brink of renewed civil war – and Democrats need to demand that McCain tell the nation whether he will order American troops into combat to try to control it.
- Palin Effect on Women Voters Modest in New Poll
- Technical Difficulties
- Square One
- John McCain lost control of the Republican Party this week and Democrats should make sure the voters know it.
- Obama's Ace in the Hole?
- Red Meat Banquet
- Palin's Partisan Pulse Raiser
- GOP Convention: A Whiter Shade of Pale
- On-Message
- Everywoman or Superwoman?
- "All That Drivel"
- Hump Day Linkage: The Palin Appointment
- Palin, Trent Lott, and the Perils of Regional Politics
- McCain's "Real Person"
- A TDS Strategy Memo: Six Highly-Targeted Democratic Messages responding to the V.P. Selection of Sarah Palin
- Strange Labor Day
- Avoiding the McCain-Palin Trap
- The Logic, and Risk, of Sarah Palin
- The Successful Spectacle
- Needed: More Testimony from Military Leaders
- Too Much Applause!
- Big Night
- Wednesday Night in Denver: A Great Set-Up
- Beginning to Close the Deal
- The Clinton Factor
- Will There Be Blood ?
- The Show Begins
- Republicans Put Up 50 MLK Billboards in Denver
- Greetings From Denver
- How to Challenge John McCain’s “Stay until We Finish the Job” Narrative about Iraq
- The Biden Choice, Women and the South
- Tide Turning In, and On, Iraq
- Virginia Analysis
- The Clinton Problem Persists
- Convention Eve Pollapalooza
- A Different Optic on the Veepstakes
- McCain's Housing Gaffe
- Post-Convention Bounce Means Little
- Whipping Up Unity
- An Early Start on Nominating Process Reforms
- Panic Time for Conservatives?
- Should Caroline 'Pull A Cheney'?
- Veepstakes Hysteria, and the Silver Lining
- McCain Just Can't Help Himself
- Nunn on the Other Georgia
- Crunch Time for Southern Electoral Votes
- Improving Conventions
- Talking Money
- Notes on Saddleback
- Obama's Veep Week
- Dems Positioned for Wins in Mountain West
- Platform Fights Present and Past
- "Keynotes" and Other Convention Ghosts
- Conservatives Warn McCain Against Pro-Choice Veep
- Obama-Bashing Author Exposed
- McCain's Vulnerabilities
- Why Swift-Boating Obama Won't Work
- McCain's Veep Games Show Ambivalence About Choice
- DCorps Survey: Economic Change Key to Winning Youth Vote
- Ohio Opportunities
- Hump Day Grab Bag
- The Politics of a One-Term Pledge
- Abortion Plank: Meeting of the Minds?
- Who's the Real John McCain?
- Party Loyalty: Fading Cause or Realistic Goal?
- The controversy over McCain’s anti-Obama ad – “The One”
- Platform Skirmishes
- Cheney to Speak After All
- Bullet Dodged
- Abortion and the Democratic Platform
- Karl Rove’s strategy for attacking Obama -- how Democrats can respond.
- No Olympic Hiaitus
- Charting Pennsylvania
- How to Attack John McCain – What would Rove Do?
- Sojourners
- Hump Day Round-Up
- Give 'Em Enough Rope
- Blackwater and Iraqi Sovereignty
- Messianism
- Calendar Perspectives
- 'Proud' McCain Dumps on Supporters
- Going Negative With Class vs.The High Road to Nowhere
- Obama/Kerry Demographics
- Point of Attack
- Can Obama Win 'Whispering Republicans' ?
- Sebelius, Kaine and Their Church
- Team McCain--All Over the Place
- A Final, Definitive Obama Veep Analysis
- "Presumptuous" Transition Planning
- Offshore Drilling, Oil Speculation & More MPG: What the Polls Say
- Gallup Picks Winners 100 Days Out
- Kaine's Faith Background
- Right-Sizing the Big Tent
- Obama's Field Presence In Florida
- Military Strategy for Democrats: The Reality Behind McCain's Claim That The Surge Has Succeeded
- Can McCain Run Against Congress?
- McCain and Hispanic Protestants
- Pride in President
- Senior Moment
- W. the Dark Knight
- Obama's Surprising Hispanic Strength
- Obama's Berlin Speech
- Audacity of Hope in Alaska
- The Case Against McCain -- for Women
- What Past Election Year Is This?
- Booting Maliki
- Romney and The Michigan Factor
- GOTV Strategy: The Personal Touch
- Getting Down To the Veep Decision
- Whining From the Sidelines
- Running for Legislator as a Geek
- Radio Key for Motivating New Voters
- Final Thoughts on Netroots Nation
- Walking Maliki Back
- Registration Revolution Kicks Into High Gear
- The Markos-Ford (Non-)Smackdown
- Greetings From Austin
- Friday Linkage: Cheers and Challenges
- The Party Registration Gap
- Are We Still Living in Nixonland?
- Obama's Money Machine: Back on Track?
- 'Whiners' May Decide Swing States
- McCain and TR
- Georgia Primary Results
- McCain's New Cold War
- Obama Leads More Impressive Than MSM Spin
- How To Look At the Veepstakes
- Tweaks and Flip-flops
- Economic Meltdown Boosts Dems
- Cell-phone-only Voters and the Polls
- Why the SocSec Smoke-out Matters
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Moral Hazard
- The Social Security Smoke-out
- Big Surge, Edge for Dems in FL Registration
- Learning to Live with the "New" Obama
- Rapid Growth in Naturalized Mexicans to Help Dems
- Behind Jackson's Gaffe
- A GOP Plan For Reclaming the 'Burbs
- Rove Advises Obama
- Progressives Push Healthcare
- Refusing to Honor Senator No
- The Women of Counterinsurgency Theory
- Head to Head With Latinos
- Maliki's Timetable and McCain's Double Bind
- Registration Drives, Obama's Ace, GOP Book, White Guys, Lakoff's Warning, Distorting MLK
- Scrap Those Obama-Webb Buttons
- McCain's Economic Plan Looks DOA
- Rough Track
- Is Obama's Southern Strategy Sound ?
- Patriotism -- the Day After
- RIP Jesse Helms
- Two Brands of Patriotism
- Obama and Iraq: A General Election Strategy
- Partners: The DLCC Online
- Hostile Interviewers and the “Endplay” Strategy
- O Canada
- Obama's Faith-Based Organizations Initiative
- "Moving to the Middle," or "Let Obama Be Obama"
- Two Days in Chicago
- Latino Voters Trending Blue
- We are all Husseins
- More on Racial Parity in Voter Registration
- The Attacks on Michelle Obama In Context
- Is Obama a "Real Christian?"
- A New Deal For the GOP?
- Small Bump in Youth, Black Turnout Can Help Flip Nine States
- Al Qaeda and the Presidential Election
- Gerrymandering and Turnout
- Will 'Obamacons' Help Dems?
- Obama and Reagan
- The Stealth Anti-Abortion Candidate
- Winning the Energy Security Debate
- Cohen's Double Back-Flip
- Panel Considers States in Play, Veep Choices
- 'Regular Guyness' Era Finally Over ?
- Obama's Biggest Speech
- All About Angry PUMAs
- The Frustration of John McCain
- Maximizing Black Turnout
- McCain's Very Short List of Female Veep Prospects
- Military Strategy for Democrats – What Dems Can Learn from Last Weeks’ Article in the New York Times
- Targeting Georgia
- A Vote's A Vote
- Friday Round-Up: Political Ad Wars Take Shape
- Sabato on the Senate
- Obama Opts Out
- NYRB on Webb's Book, Veep Prospects
- Obama and Appalachia: Better News
- Fun With Baptists
- Flip-Flopping in Tandem With Bush
- The Choice Edge
- Senior-Driven Landslide for Obama?
- Bowers on Nunn
- The Only Brokered Convention
- AP Versus Bloggers
- A Unity Ticket Debate
- Remember Election Reform?
- 'Sotto Voce' Strategy Aims at Purple Seats
- Tim Russert RIP
- Case in Point
- Top Down, Bottom Up
- Here Comes the Republican “Stab in the Back” Campaign – How the Democrats Should Respond:
- Winning the Hispanic Vote in 2008
- Sam Nunn for Veep?
- Obama's Southern Coattails
- Good News on the Congressional Front
- Changing the Subject
- The Case for Stronger Government
- The Missing Case for McCain
- Day One, Week One: McCain Campaign, GOP Open Weak
- Clinton's Concession Speech
- More Advice For Obama
- Galston's Advice To Obama
- Hillary's Enduring Legacy, Part 2
- The Challenge
- Learning From HRC's Messaging
- HRC's Enduring Legacy
- Hamas De-Endorses Obama
- Obama's Money Advantage
- HRC To Bow Out
- So Who Won the Popular Vote?
- Creamer Outlines 5-Month Action Plan
- The HD Election
- Morning After
- Big Night A-Building
- McCain and His Nonprofit Helper
- "Joe Dumars" For the Clinton Campaign
- Over and Out?
- Nose-Cutting, Face-Spiting 'Dems' for McCain
- 'Electoral Barometer' Trumps Horse-Race Polls
- An Early Battleground Assessment
- Jon Chait Sledgehammers McCain
- Puerto Rico and the Popular Vote
- DNC R&B Strikes Fair Compromise
- Tomorrow's Rules Showdown, and After
- General Election Polls: A Summary
- Flor-igan Fuss, Obama Strategies, Soft Power, Southern Swing, Youth Vote
- Why McCain Will Probably Get McNasty
- Through the Eyes of the Opposition
- McCain's Blunder on G.I. Bill
- Jim Webb and the Scots-Irish Vote
- McCain and "American Identity"
- Jim Webb, His Fans, and His Detractors
- Teixeira on Obama and the White Working Class
- Measuring Dems' Chances in GOP Districts
- Veepstakes in Ohio
- Memorial Day
- State-by-State General Election Polls
- Rejoeinder
- Clinton's Poll Edge Over Obama in Big States
- Bowers on the Unity Ticket
- Stranger Than Fiction
- The Only True Democrat
- Hamilton Jordan RIP
- The Lion in Winter
- More of the Same
- Liberalism's Future
- Tonight's Non-Dramatics
- McCain Flops the Flip in #1 YouTube
- The Problem With A Bipartisan "Unity Ticket"
- Nebraska As Kingmaker, Role Model
- McCain's Dog Whistles
- Military Strategy for Democrats - Part 5 – How the Democrats Can Argue with McCain and the Republicans about Military Strategy and Win
- Hindsight on HRC
- Huge Black Turnout May Spark Broad Dem Gains
- Military Strategy for Democrats – part 4 – The Republicans do have a military strategy – it’s called “Divide and Rule”, it takes at least 50 years, requires lots of casualties and - the half-hearted way we’re doing it - almost never works.
- Stepped On
- Military Strategy for Democrats - Part 3 – The surge isn’t “working”, it’s just “postponing” -- and in the long run it’s making things worse
- Turnout Scenarios to Beat McCain
- Diverging Realities, One Clear Win
- Military Strategy for Democrats - Part 2 – Iraq is not a “classic counterinsurgency”; it’s a full-blown civil war
- The Piece Still Missing
- Increasing Political Enclaves, Sharper Partisanship Challenge Campaigns
- Military Strategy for Democrats – Part 1 -- How the Democrats Can Argue with McCain and the Republicans about Military Strategy and Win
- Beating McCain --- With Seniors
- Turning Out the Lights
- Full-Court Shot At the Buzzer
- The "Unity Ticket" Debate
- Demographic Destiny
- Absentee Voting Bill May Transform Campaigns
- Mood Swings
- Perceptions
- HRC's Final Hope: General Election Polls
- Wrap Up Wrap Up
- A Small Curiosity
- More NC Clues
- Late Primary Challenges: Not Unprecedented
- Where to Get Early Clues on NC, IN
- The Jindal Trial Balloon
- Super Delegates: Abolish or Reform?
- Confusion and Delay
- Comparing Economic Perfomance of Dem, GOP Presidents
- Bad News From Across the Pond
- How Many White Working Class Votes Are Enough?
- Trippi's Might Have Beens
- General Election Vulnerabilities
- Hispanic Boom: Not About Immigration
- Inquiring Minds Want To Know
- McCainCare Equals BushCare
- Dems Need Stronger Unions
- Obama Strikes Back
- Dueling Endorsements in the Tar Heel State?
- Self-Wrighteousness
- Another Reason To Fear a McCain Presidency
- GOP More Divided Than Dems
- Blumenthal on the Bradley-Wilder Effect
- Monday Morning Reads
- Popular Vote Math
- Dem Doomsayers Overlook Key Data
- Pennsylvania Endorsements
- Closer Looks at PA
- Morning Cheer
- Sound and Unsound Electability Arguments
- Lines being Drawn in May 6 Primaries
- Back to the Florida Saga
- A Tactical Victory for Clinton
- Ohio Redux, and the "No Big Mo" Factor
- All About Indiana?
- Hillary Hits Her Mark
- Clinton Wins PA--Spin Wars Ensue
- One Clear Insight
- Election Roadblocks
- Obama's Reclusive Campaign Chief
- Keystones
- Will 'Sore Loser' Dems Elect McCain?
- Debates and "Personality"
- Issues and Character
- Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Barney's
- New Keystone Voters
- Extracurricular Activities
- The Final Word on "Bitter-Gate"
- A Whole New Campaign
- Nunn, Boren Endorse Obama
- You Gotta Get That Dirt Off Your Shoulder
- Debating Electability
- McCain Tosses Out an "Economic Agenda"
- Last Dem Debate: Ending on a Low Note
- Michael Lind Gets Bitter
- Recipe for Disaster
- PA's Complex Demographics Trending Blue
- Fundamental Ignorance
- Abundant Advice for Winning Workers' Votes
- Women Running for Senate, House Overshadowed by Clinton
- "Elitism" Through the Looking-Glass
- Obama's "Gaffe" and His Critics
- Do We Have a 527 Problem?
- Whose Popular Vote Totals?
- Two Wedge Issues Return
- Being Right's Not Always Enough
- Denver Dramatics
- McCainiacs
- Post-Penn Assessments of the Clinton Campaign
- More Long-Form Political Dialogue
- Zeroing In on the National Security Challenge
- McCain Back-Peddles on Public Financing
- Open Doors For Democrats
- McCain Meltdown Unlikely
- Spring Books Preview
- March Money
- Mark Penn's Really Bad Week
- King's Son Calls for Anti-Poverty Cabinet Officer
- Change vs. More of the Same (Online Edition)
- Wine Track/Moonshine Track
- PA Tests Obama's Prospects With White Workers
- Barr Could Be "McCain's Nader"
- Two Notes On Superdelegates and the "Popular Will"
- New Trend in Penn?
- An Embedded Convention
- A (Qualified) Defense of Superdelegates
- Neocon Heads Should Be Exploding
- Credentials Committee Explained
- Prodigal Son
- NC Bandwagon for Obama?
- Dems : Avoid Ageist Attacks vs. McCain
- The Great Dismal Swamp
- Obama the Muslim and his Christian Preacher
- Friday Linkfest
- Biographical Errors, Part II
- Biographical Errors
- Third-Way Criticism of Third-Way Clintons
- Two More Big Speeches
- "Poetic License" On Complex Issues
- Eyes on Obama
- More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About the NC Primary
- Lakoff and Westen On Obama Speech
- Political Poetic License
- Obama's Team and Its "Doctrine"
- McCainomics: You're On Your Own
- Thinking About Strategies to Combat the Coming “Slime Attack” Ads
- How Long, O Lord?
- Optimism and Pessimism Joust
- Obama's Speech a Net Plus
- Will Florida Democrats Take a Dive in November?
- A Religious Take on the Obama/Wright Controversy
- Popular Vote Math
- Can Dems Win Libertarian Votes?
- Iraq in Dollars and Cents
- Obama Inviting Floor Fight?
- The Narrowing Window
- Two Takes On Iraq, Five Years In
- Return of the Coherent Speech?
- Obama and the Decline of the Soundbite
- The McCain Mechanics for the General Election
- Wright and Wrongs
- Obama and His Pastor
- The DKos Boycott
- CAF Conference Charts Progressive Course
- Jesse's Way
- Deep Purple
- A Brief Note about the So-called “Conservative Movement” and the Democratic Party
- Who Benefits From a Michigan/Florida Deal?
- Disecting Cultural Conservative Messaging Strategy
- A Last Word on Spitzer
- Cha-Ching
- Keeping Blue Collars Blue
- Mississippi Gleanings
- McCain's Hail Mary Options
- Spitzer and Political Fallout
- Under the Bus
- Wind At Their Backs
- Measuring the Will of the People
- "Do-Over" Kabuki: Another View
- Team McCain's Inner Circle
- GOP's 'Cybersquatter' Edge
- "Do-Over" Kabuki
- Insider Intrigue
- More March 4 Post-Mortems
- Clinton Wins Big, Wins Little, But In Any Event Wins
- Good for the Party?
- Concerning "NAFTA-Gate"
- After Today's Primaries
- Dems Must Address NVRA Failur
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