Posts Tagged ‘election 2010’
Toastie Still Likes Politics For Some Reason
Do I LIKE politics? I don’t know. I can’t seem to stop following politics, though. I was staring at electoral-projection-guru Nate Silver’s Senate projections and hoping there was a chance he was just wrong. And then I looked at his 538.com posts from [Read More]
I’m glad I never got that Obama-Biden magnet
You see those round Obama-Biden magnets all over, especially in Durham. I donated some money after Joe Biden was picked as Obama’s running mate. The deal on the site I donated through was that I was supposed to get one of those magnets. It never came. Then again, the [Read More]
Tuesday night politics
After multiple Republicans filibusters, the Democrats finally passed an extension of unemployment benefits, even though it was supposed to be a “jobs bill” (see Ezra Klein) and had been heavily watered down just to get the 60 votes to break the filibuster. This [Read More]
The ridiculous meme of anti-incumbent anger
There has been a meme in the media in 2010 that voter anger is going to drive out a lot of incumbents. I know the story is generally focused on November, but, you would think, if voters were truly furious, a lot of congressmen would be losing the primaries. Rachel Maddow [Read More]
