**UPDATE: Dems lose the Weiner seat (with a bit of Weiner ‘race history’...
Democrats face the almost inevitable conclusion of the Anthony Weiner fiasco. When Anthony Weiner flashed his BVDs on Twitter, he set in motion a chain of events that almost certainly had to end the...
View ArticlePerry suppoters LIKE that he hates science, and other strange stuff from the...
Rick Perry hates science, and that's just fine with his supporters. The tea party is a strange, angry little rump of the Republican Party that nonetheless, holds the whip hand over the GOP at the...
View ArticleToday’s Herald column: Florida mucks up the primaries
Florida? Go to your room. Florida always manages to throw a wrench into presidential politics, and this year is no different. In 2000, Florida tied the country in knots by hanging its chads and...
View ArticleRick Perry hits the reset button on Fox News
Perry’s Sunday interview with Chris Wallace can be summarized as follows: “yeah, rich people will get more money under my tax plan, but I reject class warfare, and plus, they’re the job creators. Can...
View ArticleUPDATED: The Herman Cain media background check begins (and it’s beginning to...
Gloria and Herman Cain A few months ago, Herman Cain told the conservative media his wife Gloria would not be the typical campaign wife, out on the trail supporting her man. Well Gloria, something...
View ArticleMeasuring the drapes: Ann and Mitt Romney say, ‘it’s our turn’
Normally, it’s not a good thing to appear too entitled, when running for president. Normally. So when Ann Romney, whose husband, Willard “Mitt” Romney, has all but locked up the Republican...
View ArticleThis week’s Herald column: the cruel myth of ‘voter fraud’
Racist poster designed to frighten white Americans about “Negro suffrage”, 1866. (Source: Library of Congress: Broadside Collection) To understand the cruel calculus of voter ID laws, voter purges and...
View ArticleNo freaking out about that Florida presidential poll
I know it’s tempting. But some perspective, please, when it comes to the poll showing the presidential race deadlocked in Florida. Five reasons to “calmate” … 1. It’s July. That means every poll out...
View ArticleOn ‘racial entitlements’
The Supreme Court’s most colorful associate justice, Antonin Scalia, raised eyebrows recently with his soliloquy on “racial entitlements,” his terminology for the protections conferred by such...
View ArticleThis week’s Herald column: Charlie Crist or bust?
Cartoon from the Crowley Political Report This week’s column tackles the political reality that some Florida Democrats would rather not face… A clip: Democrats are starting to clear the decks for...
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