Joe at Evangelical Outpost says that the evangelical “values” vote really did make a difference this year: A useful rule of thumb is to always be wary of statisticians who compare percentages. The primary flaw in Kohuts comparisons is that he relies on static analysis, an assumption that nothing has changed between the 2000 and [...]
Archive for November 8th, 2004
The GOP And "Moral Issues"
Posted in Culture, Politics on November 8, 2004 | 19 Comments »
And So It Begins . . .
Posted in Politics on November 8, 2004 | 4 Comments »
The assault Bush had been carefully stalling until after the election began last week with the bombing of Falluja – a city with an estimated population of 100,000 or more civilians (not counting the 150,000 or so refugees who have fled) – in pursuit of an estimated 3,000 insurgents. The depravity that has characterized the [...]
Opposition Party!
Posted in Politics on November 8, 2004 | 7 Comments »
January 20 will mark the beginning of a new era in American politics: the end of timidity by progressive Democrats, and the establishment of a stark choice between the repression, failure, and class warfare of the GOP and a committed, engergetic politics of common decency from the party of the New Deal, the Great Society, [...]
Why Not Be Like Oregon?
Posted in Politics on November 8, 2004 | 7 Comments »
It should be clear that the voting system in the United States is pretty messed up. There were unquestionably long lines in many swing states, machines with no paper trails screwing up and giving Bush an extra four thousand votes in one Ohio county, machines with no paper trails period, etc,etc. It is a mess, [...]
A Little Resolve
Posted in Politics on November 8, 2004 | 3 Comments »
What decent America needs now is a little resolve. We have clearly been too complacent about the mechanics of winning elections – creating a solid and energized base, aggressively working to build party cohesion, and engaging in long-term planning to create an activist class inside, not outside, the political process – and we have clearly [...]
What to Do Now
Posted in Politics on November 8, 2004 | 32 Comments »
I am bumping this becasue, from various newspaper accounts, it appears that the Dems are still in their “timid” mode. Look, guys, trust me on this: you aren’t going to be able to do much legislating. Maybe you can stop some of the worst, butthis is now a propoganda war. If you want to have [...]
Eonroning Your Retirement
Posted in Politics on November 8, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Bush wants to partially privative social security. He wants people to take at least part of their Social Security taxes and place them into investments of their own choosing. In other words, he wants you to give money to these people: The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating about a dozen brokerage firms – including [...]
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