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Democratic Strategist Archives
- 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
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