But in any event, the Senate races have played out in the polls fairly consistently with theview that both Sean Trende and I have … First, the races where the polls underestimated the “wave” party, i.e., the party that (like the GOP this year) had the national environment … overestimated the “wave” party:
The final chart zeroes in on the races where the leader was below 52% of the 2-party vote, the…
View from the White House
Via Politco and White House ponders life with a Republican Senate
As bad as the electoral map for Democrats … View from the GOP Establishment
Via Politico and Exclusive: [mc_name name=’Rep. … View from the Woodcutter
If you are familiar with the movie you know that the woodcutter is the sole disinterested observer of…
We can argue about his view of that god and the theology around his statement, but Cook knows he is no accident. … The entire history of the world has been shaped by that weekend. … They are like the devil realizing it was he stuck in the desert with Jesus and not the other way around.…
As always, my method – explained at the outset – is to look specifically at the question of, assuming the accuracy of the RCP poll … My own view of poll analysis – like most fields of inquiry, and maybe moreso – is that it’s a field that benefits greatly from the … Overall, yes, the Senate polling shows more races (40) in which the Democrat beat his or her share of the 2-party vote in the final…
The referendum narrowly failed, garnering 47 percent of the vote as the state’s Republican U.S. … In particular, Hollis French is the current Minority Leader in the Alaska Senate, and until the Unity ticket was formed, he was the … The first is that Scozzafava was clearly the Liberal in the race.…
The traditional American view, harmonious with free-market capitalism, is that the government’s job is to keep things honest, enforcing … Acting as the executor of popular will, the State seeks to engineer the best, fairest economic outcome. … We haven’t degenerated to the stage where the political masters of the economy need to foment much violent hatred among the people…
Modern historians tend to take theview that World War I could not have played out any other way than the messy and brutal war of attrition … Once the trench lines were drawn, particularly on the Western front, neither the central powers nor the entente would have agreed to … When the time came for the vital counteroffensive on the Marne, the BEF was indeed technically there, physically.…
However, in the case of The Death of Klinghoffer, the opera is immediately met with controversy. … Once again, many are upset that the opera is being staged and protesters took to the streets the day of the premiere. … will play the role of Leon Klinghoffer, and sing The Aria of the Falling Body as he artfully falls into the sea.…
The Senator can barely muster up enough energy to care about Massachusetts. … Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’W000817′ ] says on TheView @JeanneShaheen is “working hard for the people of Vermont … Register here and we’ll call you on the 5th.…
Most of the media over the last 24 hours has focused on the predictable yet infuriating question of whether Chris Christie will apologize … I view it of zero significance that the same people who have floundered incompetently through this entire outbreak (to wit, the CDC … the State can ensure the safety of the unwitting public.…
My topic was “Don’t Make the Good the Enemy of the Perfect.”
In politics, we often hear people say the opposite. … of the good. … Conservative activists need an eternal view. The fight never stops, not even on election day.…
On September 16, the Huffington Post model had a 53% chance of the Democrats keeping the Senate, while the Daily Kos model on September … to exacerbate the problem of being skewed in one or another direction in any given year – more proof of streiff’s view of the herd … The chart at the top of the page notes the trend across the 14 Senate races where Republicans were competitive or flipping a seat –…
The two poles in the discussion are the epitome of the “no label” crown, David Brooks, and the man who has done more than any other … And here Chait really has the best of the argument. … While we disagree on the specifics of desirable qualities, Chait view is that your politics are a reflection of your character because…
Or, as Mark Twain put it: “The true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the … The objection, at least in my view, is not that Fortunate Son and Born in the U.S.A are anti-American, because in their essence they … The situation portrayed in the song was counterfactual during the Vietnam era when a clear majority of the House and Senate who made…
As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the momentous events of the last century, the left … The new party line on the fall of the Berlin Wall seems to be that the wall fell as the result of a sort of comedy of errors on the … However, this reductionist view completely ignores the fact that a similar chain of events would not have caused the wall to come down…
Along the way, all the liberal tributes to the fall of the Berlin Wall are writing Reagan and Thatcher out of the history of the events … All that the public rejected on Tuesday is now the bedrock of the Democratic Party. … For the last six days, all the public has gotten from the Democrats is an honest view of what the Democrats really belief, i.e. they…
The end.” … I think it’s difficult for many of us to acknowledge the shadow our parents cast on the way we viewthe world in this (and many other … the world through the eyes of our neighbors.…
In the flat version of history, the Electoral College was created in the 18th century by the Framers as a council of elders who would … The Democrats and their hand puppets in the Media who just a few weeks ago were praising the Constitution and the veracity of our elections … Oh the Irony.…
The FBI and other agencies don’t fully endorse that view, but few officials would dispute that the Russian operation was intended to … Now the U.S has solid information tying Putin to the operation, the intelligence officials say. … It moved because Russia interfered in the election to the Democrats’ detriment, whether that was the core motive or not.…
But based solely on a reading of the Constitution and on our nation’s history, my tentative view is that electors can vote for whom … Article II and the 12th Amendment give the authority to vote for the President to “The Electors.” … to be faithless to the vote of the people of the state — then replacing them before the vote could well be constitutional.…
It was the first such call since the dark days of the Carter regime. … Russia to his hands-off view of the Middle East. … And Trump may be the right guy to carry the message to them.…
that progressives “favored before the New Deal and the great society.” … When the baton passes to one’s enemies, the follies of expedience come clearly into view. … Suddenly the Media will acknowledge the dangers of changing the Constitution on a whim.
I love this Country.…
DOTE report from November 2014.[149] The F-35 program office considered software to be the top technical risk to the program. … Senator John McCain blamed cost increases in the program on “cronyism”.[151]
In 2014, the GAO found that the F-35 fleet would have … You will hear more of the latter because the real role of the F-35, at least from theview of a lot of members of Congress, is a milch…
Too many lifelong politicos simply don’t possess that particular looking glass – so their view of the man is perpetually warped and … To wit: The Art of the Deal. … As demonstrated by the decades-long gutting of the American middle class.…
The problem with this theory is in that looking at the RCP average of the national vote, Clinton’s lead dropped by a full point from … The polls continued to tighten until the day of the election when Clinton’s RCP average lead stood at 3.2%. … Theview of Hillary and her emails was baked in way before October 28th.…
