During Sunday’s Face the Nation, the senator from South Carolina talks about how “tone and rhetoric” have caused the Hispanic community to turn against the Republican Party. He’s forgetting how tone and rhetoric is a problem with even a bigger voting bloc.
Author: Ann
Veterans Day 2012
GOP tries to figure out what went wrong
The Washington Post has a story about top GOP officials planning “an exhaustive review to figure out what went so wrong and how to fix it”. I don’t think the Republicans need to spend all that money on focus groups; try joining the 21st century.
GOP reflect on their election losses
The pundits are talking about the immigration problem the GOP needs to fix in order to win future presidential elections. I think changing this position is long overdue:
Obama wins a 2nd term
Election Day 2012
A beautiful morning on Capitol Hill
One day to the election
…and we’re hearing about long lines for early voting in Florida.  Why is Florida always such a problem?
Cartoon the Vote
 Sara Thaves of the Cartoonist Group has created a website, Cartoon the Vote, with 1800+ election related cartoons by fifty leading cartoonists.
Money, politics and the democratic process
Just read an article about Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas billionaire who has spent more than $50 million supporting republicans in the 2012 elections.
What a Romney win means for SCOTUS
From George Will’s column today in The Washington Post:
“Much of the Democratic Party’s vast reservoir of condescension is currently focused on women, who are urged not to trouble their pretty little heads about actual problems but instead to worry that, 52 years after birth control pills went on the market and 47 years after access to contraception became a constitutional right, reproductive freedom is at risk.”
“actual problems”? Really?
Horror houses and religious proselytizers
From the Guardian- Halloween in America: the evangelical house of death
One week to the election
Hurricane Sandy came through DC last night, the polls are all over the place, and it’s a sprint to the finish. Let’s hope the media doesn’t create another election exit poll fiasco (remember 2000?)