When the Bad Guys Get Away
It seems the circling fire squads are already lining up on the Democratic side (though prematurely), and mandates are being fabricated on the Republican side. I personally don't believe the election...
View ArticleComplete Idiots' Guide to Why Democrats Lost
Compare this Presidential mid-term election with that of Franklin Roosevelt's in 1934. In the Senate, Democrats WON nine MORE seats, giving them MORE control of the Senate. In the House, Democrats WON...
View ArticleHow 'bout those "Momma Grizzlies?!?!?!?!"
Okay, I'll admit it -- I'm looking for a bright spot in this morning's post-election wreckage.Maybe I found one. It's not much, but there it is.
View ArticleElection Results In My Home Town
Election results for my home town, Wichita, Kansas.The people of Kansas, the people of Wichita, have elected a lot of Republicans.For Governor, the current Senator Sam Brownback.For Senator, Jerry...
View ArticleThe Backward March Toward a Misinformed Future
The spin from Tuesday's elections is practically unbearable to listen to.The majority of it is a continuation of all the crap we have already heard for months, repackaged as "analysis" or...
View Articlewhat do i say now?
Thanksgiving dinner with the limpuglican/libertarian clan is coming to a table near me soon.
View ArticleWhat the Election Results Mean for US Torture Policy
By Tom Parker, Policy Director for Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights at Amnesty International USAAs the dust settles on the midterm election we thought it might be useful to take a moment to...
View ArticleNov 2010 Election analysis: Mandate for change blah blah blah
Once again we believe that the electorate has spoken. But what was their language? Sound bite reality show thinkers voted for "new and improved" no matter who and what it was...again.
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Newsletter Special Wisconsin Edition
Inserting this little followup to my last newsletter to update people on the Wisconsin election results (mostly excellent) and to focus people on the recall efforts in Wisconsin.Here is a rundown on...
View ArticleElection results: Searching like it's 1999
What do Charter Communications and the St. Louis County [Missouri] Board of Election Commissioners have in common? They both offer maddeningly inefficient, technologically backward search functions.On...
View ArticleInteractive Map - WI Election Results
I was burning off some nervous energy poking around on the net for new stories out of Wisconsin - like about eleventy billion other people.I stumbled across this interactive map. I've never even seen...
View ArticlePolitical Geography, Part 1: The Northeast
This is the first of what will be a four part series looking at the political geography of the states in order to get a better idea of how each party does outside of just the presidential elections....
View ArticleThe October Nadir
The other day, just after the second debate, but before any more cheerful polls appeared, I decided to take a look at what I called "The Mid-October Nadir" for the Electoral College, and thus the...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Why I love Bill Clinton (the latest in a...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •ND-Sen: As we mentioned previously, Bill Clinton was in Fargo, ND on...
View ArticleGraceless In Victory, Graceless In Defeat: That's Our Mitt
We're already seeing signs that, despite his smarmy bravado, the reprehensible Willard Mitt Romney has in fact planned for the possibility of defeat. He's already planning to visit Democratic...
View ArticleGood interactive results map?
Greetings DKos community. Long-time lurker, first-time diarist here. Where are you folks going to track election results? In '08 and '04 this site had (in my opinion) the best interactive map for...
View ArticleNothing's Changed? Everything has Changed.
I woke up this morning, as I always do, to the 6:00 am news squib from NPR News that is played on the classical music station here in Washington, DC. I normally have a hard time focusing on the first...
View ArticleWhy Did The House of Representatives Not Change Hands?
What I would like to talk about here, is the House of Representatives. It seems surprising to me that this branch of congress had the lowest approval ratings in history - dipping to well below 10%....
View ArticleGrown-Ups at Last: Maryland Passes Marriage Equality
On the whole, this has been overall the happiest election I have seen. For women, for minorities, for the hope that our young will have a future beyond subsistence survival I am quite optimistic...
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