"And as secretary of state, I'm going to keep my partisan or non-partisan views to myself on that. But I think all Americans were taken with the fact that we were able, after the long history that we've been through,…
... we're drinking whiskey and talking about television. Did any of you see the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" episode about whiskey that aired yesterday? I was impressed. I also watched the "Modern Ma…
The post-election evidence shows. "I certainly hope this drives a stake through the heart of that demon," Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political scientist and polling authority, said of the Bradley effect…
IN THE COMMENTS: Verso said: Very touching comments by Ms. Rice. Can you imagine the fury and rage we'd be seeing from the Republican Party right now if Michelle Obama said this country "continues to surprise?" Or t…
Email from a reader, someone who blogs apolitically and sometimes comments here: I probably won't blab about this publicly, but I have to say -- if I thought deciding to vote for McCain in the end was tough, casting my vote i…
Bill Kristol gives you some reasons why you should: 1. It would be a victory for an underdog.... 2. It would be a defeat for the establishment.... 3. It would be [anti-Bush].... 4. It would be a victory for freedom.... 5. A McCai…
Rush Limbaugh talks to the UK Telegraph: "I have days where I feel I've left half my brain at home and I'm not functioning 100 per cent, but I don't think the audience would ever know it, and there's never a …
That's WaPo's Eugene Robinson, responding to Chris Matthews, who's fulminating about McCain's supposed contempt for Obama: I was watching the debate on a channel that mainly had a split screen of the 2 men head on…
It's kind of a problem. Is there a certain type of person likely to refuse the probing calls? And does that affect polling numbers? In a January op-ed in The New York Times, Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center,…
According to the NYT, opponents of the gay marriage ban in California are worried that black people, enthused about Barack Obama, will show up at the polls in unusually high numbers and vote the way people think black people thi…
That's the way the AP presents the results of its poll. More than a third of all white Democrats and independents — voters Obama can't win the White House without — agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks…
In this WSJ editorial: The malignant aspect of this is that Mr. Obama and his advisers know exactly what they are doing. They had to listen to both monologues or read the transcripts. They then had to pick the particular excerpts…
Jim Geraghty marshals the evidence and says no. Meanwhile... according to the NYT, Obama's win makes black people feel really good. [Kwabena] Sam-Brew, a bus driver living in Cottage Grove, Minn., said Mr. Obama’s achievement…
The things they say at Barack Obama's church: In a guest appearance at Trinity United Church of Christ, the priest, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, who resigned about two weeks ago from an unpaid position on the Obama campaign’s Ca…
Who asked that about whom in 1964? "They wear high, tight, wight collars, black jackets and what were once known as 'ice cream pants.'" What the hell are ice cream pants? Did people even know that in 1964? "…
On the list of Stuff White People Like: White people love rules. It explains why so they get upset when people cut in line, why they tip so religiously and why they become lawyers. But without a doubt, the rule system that white …