Generic Republicans are leading generic Democrats in Congressional polling by ten points. This would be remarkable news if the United States voted for parties rather than individual candidates. To be sure, the President’s party traditionally takes a hit in midterm… Continue Reading
I really really want to like Rand Paul in Kentucky. I want to see him find a way to mediate basic libertarian ideas and appeals to social conservatives. But he isn’t doing it. Hopefully, the worst of his gaffefest is… Continue Reading
Once again, Americans prove to be remarkably conservative with their money – at least, with the issue of who and what is on their money. A proposal to take Ulysses S. Grant off the $50 bill and replace him with… Continue Reading
If you read the blog on a news reader or similar appliance, please take a moment over the next week to actually log on to the page. I’ve a poll up asking Readers what they would like to see here… Continue Reading
Too many celebrity deaths in June. Of course, Michael Jackson wins the poll.
We got two votes for “other” movies — both were for Major League. The overall winner of “best baseball movie,” however, goes to Field of Dreams, which narrowly prevailed over The Natural. Personally, my favorite baseball movie is Bull Durham;… Continue Reading
There was an almost even split on the question of whether Michael Steele is good for the GOP in the most recent poll — “yes,” “no,” and “too soon to tell” got about equal numbers of votes. For my part,… Continue Reading
The good news is, more Readers had an opinion on this question than indicated that they lacked enough knowledge to decide who the coolest Watchman is. The bad news is, a plurality of you haven’t read or heard of Watchmen.… Continue Reading
There’s a poll that CNN is featuring prominently in which 23% of Americans say that Dick Cheney is the worst Vice President in American history. This is about the dumbest poll I’ve ever heard of. First of all, bear in… Continue Reading
I didn’t pick books for last week’s poll that were necessarily published in 2008. I wanted to find out which book had the biggest impact on 2008. And I wanted books that have only relatively recently entered the public consciousness;… Continue Reading