Author: BooMan

In 1988, the Democrats lost very badly for the third presidential election in a row, and for the fifth time in six attempts going back to the debacle in 1968. Without the Watergate scandal and President Ford’s unpopular...

I never really got comfortable reading MattTX’s charts of the projected North Carolina early vote, but I note that his final conclusion is that he has no idea whether Obama will win the state. We can see that a lot of...

As I go to bed tonight, Nate Silver gives the president a better than 85% chance of being reelected even though he isn’t giving him Florida’s electoral votes. That’s a good thing because Florida Gov. Rick Scott...

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the Republicans are trying to win the presidential election by reducing the size of the electorate. They passed restrictive photo identification laws which were overturned in one...

I don’t mind New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s advocacy for gun control, but no single human being should be able to throw hundreds of thousands of dollars into a congressional campaign regardless of whether they...