Well, it turns out that my concerns about the turnout in my previous post are now totally wrong. Nate shows today that Obama beat Kerry in pretty much every demographic, and in some he beat him by double digits. Considering that more people voted, period, than in 2004, it follows that more of each demographic [...]
Making fun of Sarah Palin for being dumb has bugged me for a while, and I avoided watching her interview with Charlie Gibson precisely because of that. You don’t get to be governor–even in Alaska–if you’re an idiot. And even so, it’s unclear what being an idiot means and how it helps or hurts one. [...]