Author: BooMan

Zandar pretends not to understand why white Kentuckians have stopped self-identifying as Democrats during the Obama Era. He attempts to explain the change in a variety of ways but keeps coming up empty. But, like the dog that...

Rutgers Professor David Greenberg has a nice review of John Dean’s new book The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It in The New Republic. The impressive thing about Dean’s book is the exhaustive amount of...

While you’re worrying senselessly about getting the Ebola virus, your kids are facing much more serious threats, and I don’t see the media demanding that the government do better than giving them tents and directions...

Sam Wang looks at the Senate races from the last two election cycles that wound up being decided by ten percentage points or less. The red numbers (in the Final column) indicate that the Republican won or that they had a polling...

Every election cycle I find a day or two to canvass. I don’t do it because I delude myself that my efforts are going to swing any elections by themselves. I do it mainly for my own mental health. I used to organize whole...