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Electionate’s Election Night Live Blog
Over the next few hours, returns from across the country will resolve which of these campaign efforts succeeded and which did not. We'll learn whether the wealthy financiers of Fairfield, CT abandoned the president en masse, or whether a long-promised surge in Latino turnout will propel the president to victory. We’ll learn which voters flipped toward Romney, which voters stayed with Obama, and who will win the critical battleground states on the path to 270 electoral votes. READ MORE >>
What to Watch for—and Ignore—on Election Day
Biden Gave Democrats The Show They Wanted—and Needed
Tonight Democrats got the show they wanted—and President Obama may have gotten the boost he needed. READ MORE >>
Daily Breakdown: The Bounce Persists Into A Critical Week
During convention season, the polls temporarily provide a less accurate picture of the race as voters sway back and forth on either side of their eventual preference. But this week, the polls are becoming more and more predictive of the eventual outcome with every passing day. History suggests that we should expect the lingering effects of the DNC to steadily diminish to the point of elimination over these next few days: Put differently, by Friday: we’ll be able to start assessing whether Obama’s post-DNC boost was a temporary bounce or a resilient bump. READ MORE >>
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In Coal Country, Proof That Politics Matters
A Gift For Snickering Pundits: A Map
In what has become a regular ritual this spring, the punditocracy is cracking itself up tonight over Barack Obama's embarrassingly poor performance in Democratic primaries in Appalachia and the Upland South. READ MORE >>
At the 138th Kentucky Derby yesterday, “I’ll Have Another” outmatched the favorite, “Bodemeister,” for a victory by 1½ lengths. If you bet on him, you were in luck: As the Washington Post notes, I’ll Have Another faced 15-1 odds at racetime. Now, a few of you might bristle at the notion that picking a winner against the odds is merely “luck.” Can research shed any light on the dynamics of odds and wagers? READ MORE >>
The Republican Party, and its libertarian faction in particular, has a long—which is not to say distinguished—history of singling out bureaucratic bogeymen that allegedly represent the dangers of government overreach. It’s a list that includes the welfare office, the EPA, and the Federal Reserve. But its latest addition is also among its most obscure: a century-old technical piece of trade legislation called the Lacey Act. READ MORE >>
