Time Magazine’s 2012 Person of the Year: A Celebration of the Indifferent Voter
It is the second time that Time has given Barack Obama this award. In 2008, Obama won the first time, …
Category Archives: Voting
Power, Ethics, Etiquette: The Liberal Sincerity of MSNBC Journalists
Updates I & II below: I’m having difficulty seeing what others on Twitter have called the ‘mean-spiritedness’ and ‘antagonism’ of …
Post-Election Day 2012: The Good Guys Won, but Did Progressives?
Update I & II & III: Below Well, here we are. On the other side of that Great American (non)Test. …
Election Day 2012: It’s the Day After That Matters
Update I below: This past weekend I talked with a philosopher friend about her conundrum over how to vote in …
Safe States: Safe for Whom?
It’s Halloween. And the political climate is terrifying. Democrats try to assuage their increasing anxieties over Matt Stoller’s, David Sirota’s, …
The Progressive Retreat from Obama: Who is to Blame?
As you may be aware, Matt Stoller’s most recent Salon column and other progressive critical perspectives, including my own, have …
Prez Debates 2: Indifference and Changing the Premise
After getting through the second round of Prez debates last night (with the forceful help of some astute Twitter companions), …
Veep Debates October 2012
In response to someone’s query, here are some thoughts about last night’s spectacle: I don’t generally care about, or watch, …
Why do “Third Parties Never Work”? Collusion and the Presidential Debates
Regardless of what you thought of the first round of 2012 presidential debates, the spin job began well before 8:30 …
White Privilege, the Dems, and the Rhetoric of “Care”
To read some of the exchanges over the last week in the blogosphere, apparently “white privilege” means that one doesn’t …
Democratic Accomplishments At Home since 2008
Slightly updated version In my earlier post on White Privilege (which you should read before reading this), I argue that …
Julián Castro’s Grandmother’s American Dream
On Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro gave a moving speech about how his …
John Cusack & Jonathan Turley on Obama's Constitution:
Reblogged from SHANNYN MOORE: JUST A GIRL FROM HOMER: Editor’s Note from Shannyn Moore: Read This. ***************************** By John Cusack …
Guest Post: On Voting Strategically in 2012: The Ultimatum Game
Today, I’m putting up another guest post by Robert Prasch, analyzing the “ultimatum” politics of the Democratic Party, more specifically, …
Election Year Redux
When it rains…2 posts on Translation Exercises on the same day! This one, by me, follows on the heels of …
Guest Post: “Where is My Half Glass?”
The brilliant Robert E. Prasch, an economist at Middlebury College, reflects on the Obama Presidency. President Obama, Where Is My …
Voting Model #3: The “Lesser of Two Evils”
This one gets trotted out around March of every election year. And around March of election year, I stop reading, …
Voting Model #2: The “pro-choice/environmentally friendly” vote
In this post, I continue down my list of problematic presidential election voting models. Today’s model, #2 on that list, …
Voting Model #1 cont’d: “They’re so interesting…I would love to have dinner with them” vote
A friend told me the other night that her mother voted for Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter in the 1980 …
