Author: BooMan

Four years ago, Barack Obama’s popular vote total continued to grow for weeks and weeks after the election as states completed counting up all their overseas and provisional and absentee ballots. The same thing is...

The tenor of the debate among elite Republicans on immigration reform goes something like this. They try to pretend it isn’t political and they debate the merits of creating a whole bunch of new Latino citizens. Then they...

Sixteen years before he became the president, Barack Obama worked for Project Vote as a community organizer. I kind of understand that because I was a community organizer for Project Vote in 2004. Why have I always seen Obama as...

Here are the remarks the president made this afternoon in the East Room of the White House. It was a strong argument before he won reelection and it is an even stronger argument today. However, John Boehner can’t legislate...

Harold Meyerson’s piece in The American Prospect should terrify Republicans. He details the recent disintegration of the GOP in California, and it is astonishing to read. Republican registration is now below 30% in the...