House Republicans are all about saving taxpayers' money, right? Right? Well, actually not so much. It would be more accurate to say Hous...

Sometimes, polling shows just how wide of reality people's perceptions are. For example, in 2003 the Program on International Policy at ...

Conservatives can put away their three-cornered hats now, we're on to them. They aren't patriots. They're the opposite. For thos...

It's kind of ironic that the candidate whose primary opponents ran as his antithesis is running as the antithesis of his opponent. After...

President Obama's announcement that he will end deportation of undocumented people who came here as children was seen as a gamble. Afte...

Recently, I titled a post, " We’ll stop blaming Bush when it stops being Bush’s fault ." That is, when we finally get dug out from...

State level Republicans are crazier than outhouse rats. That's not even a matter of opinion, that's pretty much provable fact. Take,...

It should be a blockbuster of a revelation. As Wisconsin Gov. Walker prepares to launch his campaign of union-busting under the guise of a b...

A lot of the commentary on the Wisconsin recall primary seems to be leading to a consensus; that this was a big loss for unions. "It w...

One of the great joys of following election night on Twitter is watching low-information voters grab onto incomplete sets of data and run wi...

Over at his blog at Rolling Stone , Matt Taibbi writes that the presidential race is pretty much over, Obama's won, and everyone's ...

It's becoming very clear that Mitt Romney plans to run a campaign of lies. If you check out Steve Benen's posts on the subject at th...

The slow recovery gets a little slower. The Hill : The nation's economy added 115,00 jobs in April while the unemployment rate dropp...

It's always fun to feign perplexity over polling. Basically, it works this way; a bunch of pundits agree on a narrative -- often based o...

Politico has the story of Mitt Romney triumphant five-state sweep of primary elections last night: Mitt Romney swept all five Republican ...

Over at Talking Points Memo , Josh Marshall makes a pretty on-the-money observation; that Mitt Romney's walking into the general electio...

A new Economist /YouGov poll [pdf] shows Barack Obama defeating Mitt Romney in a head to head match-up. At 47% to 41%, it's a pretty co...

Scott Walker's voter suppression scheme has run into trouble -- and that trouble may be shared by other bills the American Legislative E...

The janitors are sweeping up the confetti after the Super Tuesday celebrations last night (at Gingrich 2012 HQ, those janitors are fifth gra...

I have a confession to make; in 2004, I engaged in voter mischief. I didn't vote for the candidate I most wanted to win the Wisconsin pr...