Political Science

I get campaign email of all kinds these days. In this post I would like to analyze an email message entitled "They Basically Stole Ballots" which I received from James Carville earlier today. It begins, Dear Mark, from you and your Republican counterparts, and I just can't take it anymore! I don't think all you campaign professionals are even the same species as the rest of … [Read more...] about An Email From James Carville

Reason magazine asked a number of libertarian writers a few questions about the upcoming election. Since my questionnaire was apparently lost in the mail, I figured I'd save them the trouble of updating their article by posting my answers here. 1. Who are you voting for in November? Bob Barr of the Libertarian party. If the Illinois polls suddenly close up, I'll switch to … [Read more...] about Who’s Getting My Vote?

Being an irredeemable cynic, this pretty much sums up my feelings about an Obama presidency: … [Read more...] about Someone New

I just got to Thursday night's Daily Show on Tivo, and one of the featured segments involved Samantha Bee and Jason Jones expressing their frustration at a focus group of undecided voters. How could they not see the difference between the candidates? How could they not know who they like better after 20 months of campaigning? It's like they're stupid or something! It was … [Read more...] about In Defense of Being Undecided

It's hard to really be sure, but the dumbest issue among the many dumb issues to emerge from this election season is the question of whether it was disrespectful of Newsweek to put an unretouched photo of Sarah Palin on the cover because it exposed all her flaws. That's an easy one: Newsweek does journalism. They're not supposed to retouch any of the photos. Besides, have … [Read more...] about Retouching Sarah Palin