First, dispense with a couple of questions beaten to a pulp by the press over the last twenty four hours.
Were the 09 elections a referendum on President Obama?
No. It is no doubt true that the Democrats would have done better if voter approval of [...]
The only good info I can get on the Maine elections comes from the excellent election page at the New York Times. The Maine state legislature, I gather, legalized same-sex marriage. Opponents got a referendum on this year's ballot: voting "yes" would repeal the law. Voting "no" would sustain [...]
Blanchard's Wise Predictions (and retroactively wise non-prediction)
As expected, yours truly correctly predicted the outcome of tonight's gubernatorial elections. As I said, Robert McDonnell crushed Creigh Deeds in Virginia. In American elections anything over 10 percent is considered a landslide. With 99% counted, McDonnell won [...]
