[Lay impressions on the week’s politics, reported to a hypothetical GOP leader curious to know whether and how the week’s political messaging was received. More information about this series here.] Feedback on this week’s political news and messaging: Out with… Continue Reading
First, some revisions to the mission statement of this series. As a relatively attentive, firmly right-of-center, yet critical constituent, I offer this “customer feedback” to a fictional GOP leader curious to know whether and how one constituent received the week’s… Continue Reading
Here’s my angle: I’m a political junkie with a demanding day job and a wife and toddler at home. Any big chunks of time I can find (usually long walks with my daughter when she won’t sleep any other way)… Continue Reading
Or mebbe you do. Regardless, if you’re reading this, it’s not likely that you would have voted differently. And via US News & World Report, this: Media coverage of President Barack Obama was largely positive in the final week of… Continue Reading
On last night’s GOP LeagueCast, I alluded to Republicans’ catch-22: Their core conservative message is community-centric, but community-centric policies are impracticable at the federal level. Instead, our GOP leaders in Washington focus on shuttering clumsy and unprincipled federal programs and… Continue Reading
I lost half of yesterday afternoon obsessing over early election returns, the evening hours brooding about the GOP defeat, and much of this morning so far catching up on post-mortems. I’m providing my own (perhaps overly) bleak outlook here with… Continue Reading
…without a budget.
A Facebook conversation this afternoon with a friend who is, at best, a casual voter, put things into high relief for me: Friend: so whos it going to be for you Me: I was not going to vote Obama anyway,… Continue Reading
This election day, Ilya Somin reminds us why many people really should stay home, and why the rest of us should consider not voting on down-ticket races and issues unless we know what we’re doing: As political philosopher Jason Brennan… Continue Reading
I was going to vote against the incumbent either way, but if I had to boil all my problems down to a single issue, it could fairly be done on the debt. In the short term, Obama believes it’s not… Continue Reading