John Dingell Jr who rsquo s represented many-times-redrawn pieces of Michigan in the U S House since winning a special election in 1955 announced this week that he won rsquo t run for another term this fall ldquo I rsquo m not going to be carried out feet first rdquo said the 87-year-old Demo

The actor and frequent talk-show guest Alec Baldwin has never run for political office and he rsquo ll probably never slake that obvious thirst now that he rsquo s been defined as an Obama-loving homophobe mdash a demographic that at best is a majority on a few scattered streets on his native L

Here rsquo s another red vs blue map but this one shows the changes in partisan strength over the past quarter-century See larger version below It rsquo s from David Jarman at the Daily Kos That rsquo s a Democratic site as is ThinkProgress which flagged the map today but the map is based

The Republican Party got some free mdash and inadvertent mdash rebranding advice this month from the Congressional Budget Office First the CBO estimated that the Affordable Care Act would eventually cause beneficiaries to reduce work hours by the equivalent of 2 million full-time jobs And thi

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan: Party leaders make great punching bags.

I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend made possible by our commemoration of national leaders widely considered weak and ineffectual while in office I rsquo m referring to Presidents rsquo Day or Green Lantern Day as it should be known among political scientists frustrated by those insisting th

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom: Robert D. Sullivan on the schism between so-called conservative Catholics.

Just as many on the left have spent a long time trying to figure out how to achieve universal health care a lot of thinkers on the right are mulling over ways to combat the ills of universal suffrage Making it more difficult to vote or impossible in the case of ex-felons is not enough Some Tea

The Census Bureau released another great time suck on Thursday Interactive maps with data on the 16 8 million Americans who moved from one county to another between 2007 and 2011 Type in any county and you get a map of where new residents are coming from in orange and where the people who used t