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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 7:06 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 19:06

Bronx County (NY) as the most D county in the nation, with 88% voting for Barack. Bronx is closely followed by, you guessed it, Manhattan County at 85%. And then there is Brooklyn County, tied for third place nationally with Alameda County (CA) at 79%. I guess Queens County at 75% is also in the top ten.

Now I know who made all the honking and cheering last night.

Just so you know not only swing states matter!

Obama/Biden: fighting moderates (Caution: longer analysis!)

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 12:28 PM PDT

2008/09/06 · 12:28

As I recall, I first read the expression "fighting moderate" in a Paul Krugman column sometime in late 2003 or early 2004, applied to Howard Dean, and it instantly struck me as at once insightful and accurate. During the long, long years of Republican political and ideological dominance, any Democrat who questioned the fundamentally Republican-friendly terms in which debates about both foreign and domestic policy and "values" were framed was considered an extremist, regardless of the content and level of popular acceptance of his or her actual policy preferences. Somone with relatively mainstream ideas but with a fighting spirit, i.e. a willingness not just to push for his policies but to shift the very terms of the debates could be immediately described as a radical, while someone with fairly radical ideas but more apologetic about them was considered mainstream or moderate.

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 11:33 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 11:33

Many people here ridiculed statements to that effect, and I am not quite sure how exatcly Wolf Blitzer, to whom the original is attributed, meant it (sorry, I don"t watch much TV). But in one sense the observation is perfectly accurate. It is a good bet after last night that win or lose in November, Sarah Palin is going to be a national political figure for a long time to come. She is the new national face of far-right religious conservative politics.

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Saturday August 30, 2008 · 12:24 PM PDT

2008/08/30 · 12:24

Those who argue that it will be difficult to attack Palin because she is a woman, and that attacking her inexperience could be construed as offensive to women in general have a point, but the problem can be handled. The general line should be not attacking her directly but rather criticizing Mccain for choosing her. Something like this: "she is a decent person with a compelling personal story, but she was put into a humiliating position by McCain by submitting her to such challenges that she could not possibly face." This could be repeated each time she says something stupid or uninformed. Each gaffe she makes, attack McCain for humiliating her and offer some measure of sympathy to her. After all, the main task is to undermine him, not her. Describe it as a reckless choice, not because she is a bad or stupid person but because she is so completely untested.

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