At the risk of feeding the troll at unskewedpolls.com and barackofraudo.com (both run by Dean Chambers) or legitimizing its claims of voter fraud which journalists are thoroughly debunking, let me add one more reason why the claim that voter fraud flipped the results of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Florida is absurd. If the claims of [...]

I think people miss the point a little bit when they look at Rubio’s response to the question about the age of the earth in the context of Iowa.  The real state to watch for with Rubio is New Hampshire.  Right now Huckabee is leading the polls Iowa.  Let that sink in a bit, Huckabee. [...]

Watching Bobby Jindal decry the anti-intellectual trend of the Republican party reminds of when Jeb Bush spoke up a few months ago to say that he was very disappointed in the lack of bipartisan cooperation between Obama and Congressional Republicans.  Yes, I guess it’s better that they say these things, but where were they the [...]

Isn’t the whole “gifts” thing a perfect example of the sense of entitlement that has come over the American right.  When they explicitly vote for the candidate who will give them a tax cut, that’s not a gift, it’s a matter of patriotism.  When Democrats vote for candidates who propose programs they benefit from, it’s [...]

There has been this idea floating around for a few weeks that Romney’s inability to trounce his opponents despite vastly outspending them proves money can’t buy elections.  Some Republicans have been running with this to try and make the point that this proves that concerns over Citizens United are overblown.  I’d like to take a [...]

I typically focus my writing on political strategy and the big picture, but I did work in politics for several years, and want to say something about this quote from Romney that he has been repeating in various forms for a few months: “Where I come from real leadership is starting a business, not getting [...]

Today was a momentus day for health care reform because one of the nation’s foremost conservative judges, Larry Silberman, wrote an opinion upholding the Affordable Care Act.  Judge Silberman is the second prominent conservative judge to uphold the health care law, as Judge Sutton from the 6th Circuit also wrote an opinion upholding the health [...]

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard the case on whether passports for children born in the city of Jerusalem should just say “Jerusalem” as they do now, or say “Jerusalem, Israel” as an act of Congress requires.  Many on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian issue have been getting worked up about this (for obvious reasons), but [...]

Tonight Obama announced the beginning of a gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Many people with more expertise in military and foreign affairs are writing about the policy issues at play with Obama’s Afghanistan decision, but true to my theme I’d like to take a minute to look at the politics.  In particular, I want to pose [...]

The entry of Michelle Bachmann into the Presidential race changes everything! Or does it? Minnesota Congressman Michelle Bachmann will officially join the Presidential race on  Monday. Let’s put on our political strategist hats and think of a few scenarios that could result from Bachmann’s entry into the race.  Here are what I think are the four [...]

First the facts:  Rick Perry, the four term Texas Governor has declared a “day of prayer and fasting” because “some problems are beyond our power to solve”  and also holding a large public prayer event.  The problems he claims are beyond our power include (1) financial debt, (2) terrorism, and (3) natural disasters.  Let’s unpack his [...]

A lot of people have been commenting lately on a Drudge article, among others, which are purporting to defend Sarah Palin’s inaccurate retelling of the Paul Revere story..  Once again though, it’s time to defend rationality and along the way, make a serious point about irrationality in our politics. The argument they make to defend [...]