By Michael Baker “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place where we were born and raised.” – Mitt Romney, August 24, 2012. The now-official Republican nominee […]
Category: Politics
Paul Supporters Boo, Isaac Continues to Steal Show
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) The Republican National Convention was originally supposed to run Monday through Thursday of this week. Due to all the rain caused by Tropical Storm Isaac the convention cancelled Monday. On Tuesday […]
Insular Communities and You
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) “We are talking civil unrest, civil disobedience, possibly, possibly civil war. … I’m not talking just talking riots here and there. I’m talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms, [and] get rid […]
The Empire Strikes Back
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) I didn’t pay to much attention to the Republican deadline to allow Todd Akin to withdraw from his Senate race because I just assumed that he would. When I look back […]
Why the Republicans Should Fear Todd Akin
By Michael Baker Here we go: another Todd Akin post, and this could all be moot in less than an hour. That’s because Todd Akin has until 6 o’clock eastern time to drop out of […]
Todd Akin Is Mistaken
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) Todd Akin made his comments on Sunday about how “legitimate rape” can not produce a pregnancy. His Senate campaign is now probably hopeless, but once again the abortion debate has been […]
It’s Pointless to Compare Vice Presidential Candidates
By Michael Baker Ok, so it’s Paul Ryan. And now the real race for the Whitehouse begins. In the coming months we’ll see a few Obama/Romney debates and one Biden/Ryan debate. While all political debates […]
American Gerontocracy
By K. David Du Nationsmith writer K. David Du analyzes interesting age trends amongst the world’s political elites and their countries’ population median and the sharper differences between the emerging world and the industrialized one. […]
Why Swing Voters Don’t Matter
By Michael Baker Here’s how most people think about winning a presidential election in our two-party system: Forty percent of voters will always vote for a Democrat (these numbers are purely illustrative). Forty percent will […]
Gay Marriage – A Historical Inevitability
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) In this year’s presidential campaign one of the hot issues is going to be the ever growing debate on gay marriage. Supporters and dissenters both have very strong opinions on the […]
The Nationsmith 