November 9, 2012
Move to the Middle?
The talk about the GOP moving to the middle is non-sense. It is not going to happen in a mid-term election. Republicans represent red districts. They are not going to get themselves re-elected in primaries if they decide that they...
November 8, 2012
Recap
Barack Obama had 9 million less votes in this election than last. Had Mitt Romney the same number of votes as John McCain in Ohio, he would have won. You think that maybe the constant barrage of negative commercials had...
November 7, 2012
No Mandate, Just a Job to Do
In Presidential re-elections, the incumbent usually gets more votes than he did the first time, unless of course he loses. Bush got more votes against Kerry than he did against Gore. Clinton got more votes against Dole than he did...
November 7, 2012
The House Party
The Republican Party is now almost an exclusively a creature of the House of Representatives. Perhaps that is why Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan to be his running mate. From the House perspective, it was a pretty good night. They...
November 6, 2012
It’s Mitt
I endorse Mitt Romney for President. I make my endorsement rather late in the process, because unlike the New York Times or the Washington Post, I didn’t want my endorsement of Mitt Romney to influence how you vote. I want...
November 5, 2012
Age of Synthesis
If 2008 was the thesis and 2010 was the antithesis, 2012 is the Age of the Synthesis. I always thought that George Hegel would have love this formulation, but I learned from reading Wikipedia that Hegel is a good more...