Electoral College Reform by the Numbers

I recently started looking into electoral reform.  It originally started with me looking into campaign finance law, but I came across the National Popular Vote movement and have realized that this is as pressing an issue as campaign finance.  I had heard about the movement to reform the electoral college...

In Ohio Race, Lee Fisher’s Woes Continue Unabated

As if Rob Portman’s nine to one money advantage was not enough trouble for Lee Fisher in Ohio’s senatorial campaign, now Fisher’s press secretary, John Collins, is moving over to join the Senate campaign of Jack Conway, who is running against Rand Paul in Kentucky. Kentucky, of course, is...

Admission of guilt

Yesterday I wrote a piece giving the NAACP a fair share of blame for the Sherrod debacle.  The NAACP screwed up.   I believe that Sherrod would not have been forced out if it had not been for the fact that the NAACP condemned her as well.  I stand by that statement, I dismissed the right wing spin...

David Frum: “The central fact of the Sherrod story has been edited out of the conservative narrative”

Lots of great stuff has been posted by various commentators in response to Andrew Breitbart’s shameless, defamatory hit-piece on former low-ranking USDA official (and, as per TOTALLY NOT RACIST Tea Party Express spokesdouche Mark Williams, Colored Person) Shirley Sherrod. But apostate neocon and...

Rasmussen Poll Shows Portman With A Six-Point Lead in Ohio

The Ohio race to fill Sen. George Voinovich’s seat in the U.S. Senate continues to be a close one. Rasmussen reports today that Portman has a six-point lead, but that is essentially the same lead he had at the end of June: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Ohio finds...