Winter Weather Madness
So, last week I was started to get the sniffles again as the temperature dropped into the teens. Made my whole Christmas Week rather miserable, aside from the presents and calls from family. And...
Author: Ken
A Rising Generation
One aspect of American politics I’ve paid attention to is the stark reverse agism that has resulted in the average age of a federal politician to be the average starting age for retirement for...
Committee Ratios?
Is that what all the fuss over the filibuster was really about? So Democrats could insist on a fair ratio for committee seats? (Sort of makes sense, though, given procedural/organizational votes are the most...
What’s Next?
As a dramatic year comes to a close, it is often a great opportunity to examine where we are and where we’re going. The stock market has seen huge surges and multi-year lows. Unemployment...
On Lieberman
Just what I was thinking: Some Democrats have sniped at Joe Lieberman for not grilling the Bush administration hard enough as head of the homeland security committee. He gets to keep this job. Democrats...
Election Day Is Here
Damn, I accidently deleted my last electoral college projection. I remember it was something like 306-176-56. (A gain of 20 for Obama and 2 for McCain, and the 56 are tossups.) High turnout A...
House Races To Watch
Like most people, I’ll be bouncing between the Internet’s incoming results and the blowhards on television. I’ll be fixated mostly on the larger Presidential and Senate races. That doesn’t mean I won’t be watching...
Dems May Fall Short Of 60 Senators
It’s really amazing that it’s becoming a strong possibility that we could even talk about, much less actually see something on the order of 7-11 seat gains by the Democrats in the U.S. Senate,...