One of the best parts of working in politics is the food. Many lucky reporters, operatives, and candidates have taken down Maytag blue cheeseburgers in Newton, fried clams at Ray’s in Rye (h/t Gagnon), chowdah at Petey’s in Rye (h/t JB), pulled pork at Hudsons in Lexington (h/t Hamby), shrimp & grits at the [...]
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Walking Through Congressional Districts… Via Google Maps
Street View is the latest product from Google that both amazes and alarms us. By taking millions of photos from the back of a Chevy Cobalt, Google has brought the images of far-flung neighborhoods to the comforts of our own laptops. It’s also caught some pretty funny scenes on film, including …
A Cleveland [...]
Obama Pulling out of North Dakota
The AP is reporting that “Barack Obama, who has deployed more than 50 staffers in North Dakota in an attempt to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1964, is pulling out.”
I can’t say I’m surprised.
But I can’t say I agree — If I was David Plouffe I’d pony up the [...]
Western Values
One of the interesting things about American federalism is that regional issues often gain outsized influence in Washington.
Corn ethanol is now an integral part of American energy policy thanks to the Iowa caucuses. The Cuban trade embargo had withstood nine presidential administrations due to voters in South Florida. Outsourcing is a flashpoint issue [...]
Are We a Nation of Wasillas or Chicagos?
George W. Bush won Ohio in 2004 by running up the vote in the rural parts of the state. He dominated towns of under 10,000 people from the Miami Valley to the Ohio River Valley, trumping John Kerry’s GOTV operations in a handful of urban Democratic cities like Cleveland, Akron and Toledo.
Could 2008 look [...]
Minnesota’s Disparity of Wealth
As Republicans descend on St. Paul for their convention, one of the major themes being pushed by Democrats is that the GOP is out of touch and unaware of the economic travails of ordinary Americans. McCain’s I-can’t-count-all-my-houses snafu certainly doesn’t help them debunk those criticisms.
So with those arguments as a backdrop, it’s interesting to [...]
Live From Denver
If you’re in Denver, send me your blog posts. I’m working with C-SPAN from the NMS offices in Arlington on their sharp new web site, the Convention Hub. It’s C-SPAN 2.0. It features up-to-minute tracking of credentialed and national blog posts and real-time Twitter updates.
Check out the Convention Hub here, and follow me on Twitter [...]
Geographically Speaking, Biden is a Smart Choice
Joe Biden, the blue collar, Catholic, foreign policy expert from Delaware is going to help Barack Obama in places like Pennsylvania’s 12th District. It’s hardcore United Mine Worker and United Steelworker country, the “Cradle of the American Steel Industry,” according to the Almanac of American Politics. It was settled by the irascible Scots-Irish that Jim [...]
Obama Running Worse Than Kerry Four Years Ago?
James S. Robbins at The Corner takes a counter-intuitive look at where Obama is running vis-a-vis John Kerry four years ago today:
“Today’s map shows Obama with a projected 275 votes to McCain’s 250, with 13 up for grabs. Four years ago — Kerry 317, Bush 202, and 19 tied. Interesting.”
Indeed.
Obama-McCain, August 18, 2008 (Electoral-Vote.com)
Kerry-Bush, August [...]
Home Foreclosures Hitting the Sun Belt Hard
ForeclosurePulse.com has an interesting map of the parts of the country that are being hit the hardest by home foreclosures. Most of the areas suffering are either in rapidly-growing Sun Belt communities or chronically-depressed areas of the Rust Belt.
This includes the exurbs around L.A., Phoenix, Las Vegas, Atlanta, D.C.* and South Florida, and then [...]
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