Author: BooMan

Reflections

I’ll have more to say on this soon, but one notable thing about Netroots Nation was the split between people who are trying to get the Progressives to stand firm and torpedo any health care bill that isn’t good...

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Don’t Trust Rasmussen Polls

I really want to urge Democrats not to believe any Rasmussen poll that can’t be tested by an actual election. Every opinion poll that they put out seems unhelpful and demoralizing to Democrats, and they rarely agree with...

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Casual Observation

I find Rick Perlstein’s column comforting because it reminds me that right-wingers have been crazy for pretty much ever, and that the current display of irrational hatred wrapped in delusional conspiracy is their standard...

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People Love Jimmy Carter

My working theory is that Rasmussen only does real polls at election time so that they can do phony polls the rest of the time. Elections, after all, are the true fact-checker of polls. A polling company that continually...

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