Author: BooMan

I don’t think I’ve articulated this theory on the blog. I’ve, so far, reserved it for conversations with my friends. But for quite a while I’ve had a theory that Barack Obama would win this election if he...

Assuming John McCain loses this thing, my guess is that the 2012 Republican nominee will be someone most of us have never heard of. Why do I say that? Because every Republican we’ve ever heard of is pretty much disgraced...

This is pleasant. Dana Milbank reports on audience reaction to Sarah Palin’s racially undertoned, fear-mongering campaigning in Dixie. CLEARWATER, Fla. — “Okay, so Florida, you know that you’re going to...

Swing State Project has an excellent feature where they track independent expenditures in the Congressional races on a week-by-week basis. Independent expenditures are mainly outlays from the Democratic Congressional Campaign...

Maybe the stock markets will bounce back and recover before the end of the day, but seeing the Dow Jones index fall below 10,000 for the first time (I believe) in the Bush presidency (lower than when Bush became president), is a...