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Hey! Thanks for all the comments on last night's election live-blog , from which I absented myself after a post at 8:04, noting the obvi...

Vote — for revenge... or love?

This clip neatly embodies a reason why I believe Romney will win. He feels like optimism, and Obama — who once owned the word "hope...

As it becomes apparent — is it apparent? — that Obama is likely to lose — going to lose? — the election...

... what should we expect to see? 1. Desperate attacks, material that otherwise would not have been dumped into the public discourse. 2. Lib...

"Stick with me, Ann," Barack Obama emails.

"Ann -- I don't want to lose this election." Not because of what losing would mean for me -- Michelle and I will be fine no ma...

The audience completely failed to cheer or applaud when Jon Stewart announced that Obama was the guest on "The Daily Show."

Here 's the whole show. You'll have to put up with a commercial, and then what I'm talking about happens is the first thing afte...

A WaPo writer "searching for the 'authentic America'" is delighted to travel to Madison, Wisconsin.

"We’d always heard about that mythically quirky place called Madison, a free-spirited land with far fewer chain stores and BlackBerry a...

Disappointed Barrett voter: "The end of the U.S.A. as we know it just happened."

"Every single one of you out there in the nation, if you're watching, democracy died tonight." Also at the link: The Barrett s...

"President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement..."

"... and it may cost them the 2012 election, " says pollster Douglas Schoen (in the Wall Street Journal). The protesters have a di...

No criminal misconduct by the Waukesha County Clerk in the WI Supreme Court election.

Law broken, but not willfully. Sorry if this seems like inane trivia to most of you out there in the land of not-Madison. It's a big de...

"What did David Plouffe really say about unemployment?"

WaPo's Greg Sargent tries to rehabilitate Plouffe , who clearly did say that the unemployment rate is not going to determine how people ...

Our congresswoman Tammy Baldwin asks U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate Wisconsin.

Because it's probably, like, a federal crime that some Waukesha county clerk made a clerical error. In the letter, Baldwin says the mis...

"This is the old 'bitter clingers' (or 'What's the Matter With Kansas?') argument reduced to utter incoherence."

James Taranto quotes Gov. Ed Rendell... [P]eople don't always vote on logical reasons. Emotion drives voters particularly when they have...

"People have been seeing too many Blaxploitation movies and kind of enjoyed Shaft..."

"... and they like the idea of this true black man... getting angry on television." Why do people want Barack Obama to get angry? ...

Maureen Dowd says Christine O'Donnell, like Barack Obama, is "smart to think of politics in terms of passion and myth."

That is, Barack Obama, the presidential campaigner. As an actual President, the "passion and myth... are sorely missing."  Obama’s...

To continue on the subject "politics should not be that emotional or that big a part of our lives," I have a confession to make.

I didn't vote in the Wisconsin primary. And I took refuge in the back of my house many times when candidates — actual candidates, not th...

"If we learned anything tonight it's that New Yorkers are as mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore."

Said Carl Paladino. And if they don't feel quite so mad, they can have good old Andrew Cuomo as their governor. Regardless of whether P...