Author: BooMan

More Than 30 Seats

Rahm Emanuel no longer heads the DCCC, but he’s paying close attention. And he’s giving people a head-fake, setting low expectatations: “North of 20 and less than 30,” is how Emanuel answers when I ask how many seats...

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The Metropolitan President

Hey!! This is the argument I’ve been making with progressives since last winter. Many Obama partisans detected a vague racial appeal in the anti-urban framing. But the attacks also highlighted an overlooked aspect of the...

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Deep Thought

If you are going to start a World Series game at 10:15 local time, the least the teams can do is not let the thing go into extra innings.

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Open Thread

In a country where Dan Quayle can be vice-president and George W. Bush can be a president, a Wasilla girl can dream.

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Fairness Doctrine

Conservatives are terrified that the Democrats will reimpose some form of the Fairness Doctrine, which would shut down right-wing talk radio. I’m pretty libertarian when it comes to free speech, although I have no problem...

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