Author: BooMan

Four years can be a long time in politics, and one midterm cycle may not resemble the one immediately preceding it. For a pollster, political scientist, or basement-dwelling blogger, there are tools and practices that can be put...

There was another school shooting today, this one in Washington State. From the sounds of it, there are some gravely injured people undergoing very serious surgery and the fatality list may, unfortunately, go up from where it is...

My thoughts are with Kevin Drum. I’m happy that he’s optimistic and good-natured about his diagnosis of multiple myeloma, and while his treatment regimen looks pretty intense, at least he thinks it isn’t as bad...

Regardless of how the midterms elections go, there are a few Republicans who I would really like to see lose and that (if they lose) would go a long way toward mitigating the depression I would feel if things go very poorly. At...

Of all the Senate races in the country, the one that is perplexing me the most is the one in Colorado. For starters, I cannot for the life of me figure out why Senator Mark Udall is doing so poorly in the polls. Every theory I...