Special election time in South Carolina. Elizabeth Colbert Busch and Mark Sanford square off to determine… well, not very much in the grand scheme of things, but the winning party will pretend it’s a huge mandate. We continue our discussion…
Remember that roughly 48 year experiment with actually letting people vote without getting discriminated against? That was a blast! Joe, Nick and Allison discuss the upcoming argument in Shelby County v. Holder, the latest challenge to Section 5 of the…
Joe and Allison review the latest Republican counteroffer in the fiscal cliff negotiations and wonder whether they have any sense of how negotiations even work. They also check in on the evolving Susan Rice controversy, wondering if the furor over…
The usual suspects are joined by Elie Mystal of Above the Law to gloat about the election results and sacrifice the customary goat to our overlord Nate Silver. We also discuss the sex scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus where Elie, the…
1) To people who hate math — Suck it: It’s not dumb to say that we have heaped more praise upon Nate Silver (and his compatriots like Sam Wang) than deserved. After all, it was the community of pollsters who…
When the Supreme Court authorized unchecked SuperPAC spending in elections with the Citizens United decision, there was a lot of fear and confusion. Suddenly extremely wealthy people and businesses could anonymously spend more than the candidates themselves to sway the…
This story is important to send around, especially in light of the overall freak-out taking place as Mitt Romney has made polling gains. Mitt Romney just told the Des Moines Register: “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m…
Reminder: The next President will have a major impact on the Supreme Court. John Dickerson explains what qualities we would look for if we interviewed presidential candidates. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois functionally violates the Catholic Church’s tax exempt…
Chick-Fil-A makes overrated chicken sandwiches, ruined the venerable Peach Bowl with tacky naming rights, and hates them some gays. Dan Cathy, the President of Chick-Fil-A, as well as the son of the chain’s founder, explained that the restaurant was “guilty…
Another week: Representative Thad McCotter resigned amid scandal with a humorous letter. And here it is, the official Mitt Romney dictionary. Theo Anderson breaks down just how important turnout is to the electoral hopes of Republicans. At the risk of…
