(Un)Conventional Wisdom
The daylight hours of Election Day bring story after story tweet after tweet about voter turnout This is insanely boring and the stories have little predictive value about the election results Long lines in certain places prompt speculation about unexpectedly high turnout and only later do we
Television
Fifteen years after the premiere of “The West Wing,” there are more television shows about politics than ever before, with “Scandal” among the biggest hits on broadcast television and a half-dozen others in production on various platforms. But the trend is not likely to boost
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
We're less than two weeks from election day, so it's time to start writing the post-mortems.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Will hysteria over the Ebola virus drive midterm voters to the right?
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Congress is more adept at fear-mongering (see: the Ebola virus) than at substantive debate.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Democrats and Republicans seek to tie global crises to their midterm opponents.
Fifty years ago this fall, the Democrats won their highest percentage ever in a presidential election, and Catholics formed the party’s bedrock constituency. Still reeling from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Catholics voted for his successor, Lyndon Johnson, by a margin of three to one
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Democratic senate candidate in K.Y. a champion of ballot-box privacy
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Wendy Davis's campaign ad reminding voters of her opponent's disability backfires.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
On Thursday a federal judge struck down Texas rsquo s voter ID law which requires citizens to produce photo identification in order to cast ballots in federal and state elections The law does not make the same demands of those mailing in absentee ballots U S District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos