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The states to watch on Election Night 2012: Six months later
Pennsylvania: The new #1! In the summer of 2011, here on Sunday Kos, I attempted to quantify the level of interest we could expect in the 2012 elections for each state. The top three states were...
View ArticleWhat Lies Beneath Our Cities' Asphalt Jungles? A Mosaic of Bricks
In the year 1870 a man by the name of Mordecai Levi, of Charleston, WV, had an idea for improving upon the hardpacked dirt streets of the city. Every Spring they turned into a quagmire of mud and, to...
View ArticleMy SOPA Letter
Like many Americans, I took some time out today to contact my Senators and Representative about SOPA and PIPA. I also shared my letter with a friend of mine, who requested I diary it, so I am. As a...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Is there really Newt-mentum in advance of...
This morning, Chuck Todd and the rest of the gang at MSNBC's First Read sounded a very interesting alarm: There are some increasing signs -- though all of it anecdotal for now -- that Newt Gingrich is...
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OH-Sen, OH-Pres: Quinnipiac finds large Brown lead, tiny Obama lead
If you've ever wondered what a Buckeye looks like, now you know Quinnipiac. 1/9-16. Registered voters. MoE ±2.4%. (10/17-23 in parentheses): Sherrod Brown (D-inc): 47 (49) Josh Mandel (R): 32 (34)...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Should you forget everything you've seen...
There is a metric ton of data today, with six polls examining the pending GOP primary in South Carolina alone. But with the spectacle of the Perry withdrawal, the Marianne Gingrich interview, amid the...
View ArticleOhio 11-5 solid Dem map
This is my second attempt at drawing an 11-5 map of Ohio and is much more successful. I was able to make all 11 seats strong enough for Democrats to win, even in a 2010 type of wave election. All...
View ArticleWhy energy projects like Keystone XL overstate job creation
A pair of economists from Ohio State University issued a report that says the likely number of jobs that a burgeoning shale gas industry could create in Ohio has been grossly overstated – by a factor...
View ArticleRiding circles around the anti-choice crowd.
Every couple months or so there's a group that gathers in the center of our town on Sunday afternoon and silently stands on the sidewalk with anti-abortion signs. "Abortions hurt women" and the...
View ArticleWhen to Say No. Make That "Hell, No!"
Mitt Romney did not invent predatory capitalism. It’s been around for a while. Predatory capitalism was already alive and well in 1978, in Cleveland. That was when the One Percent who controlled the...
View ArticleI no longer have to "check that box", except that I still do.
For the seven or eight years or so between the time I left high school without a diploma and the time that I got my GED in 2007, every time I filled out a job application there was that dreaded...
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Jobs revival lifts Midwest economies
(Ford Motor Company) Bloomberg reports that the Midwest is undergoing a jobs revival. Michigan, for instance, gained 66,000 jobs in 2011, "the first gain in the state since the turn of the century,"...
View ArticleMichigan's Berserk Legislature Continues Attack on Workers
Union busting is a pejorative term used by labor organizations worldwide to describe a wide range of activities undertaken by employers, their proxies, and governments, which attempt to prevent the...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The Florida postgame show
So ... that was kind of decisive for Mitt Romney, wasn't it? The bad news for Mittens, though, is that polling released today hints at the fact that he might not have it quite so easy in the near...
View Article"It's just like the banks got bailed out: the police beat the shit out of us,...
This footage was taken on Saturday, January 28th, by an Occupy Oaklander videographer who goes by the moniker Oheresy. I don't know exactly where or when, but it was most likely shot after the...
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As 'Joe the Plumber' runs for Congress, he pays himself $5,000 a month
When Joe the Plumber Samuel Wurzelbacher announced he was running for Congress against Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur, the big question was why he'd bother. As David Nir wrote, Ohio's "new 9th...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Resuming the Mitt Romney inevitability...
In economics, the proper term would probably be a "lagging indicator". Another way to put it, gramatically awkward though it might be, would be to call it a "pre-bounce". Whatever you want to call it,...
View ArticleIndiana Won't Be Last in 2012 Anti-Worker Push
Indiana became the 23rd state to institute a so-called “right to work” law yesterday. Across the country these laws have depressed wages for union and non-union workers alike, and have contributed to...
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The early 2012 battleground picture
The Beltway conventional wisdom: If Obama is on the rebound, someone forgot to tell swing voters in the most important up-for-grabs states in 2012. The idea is that while Obama may be up nationally,...
View ArticleIntrade : POTUS 55.6% probability of winning reelection
I am cautiously optimistic about President Obama winning reelection this November. It appears that the investors at www.intrade.com agree. They give the odds of his reelection as 55.6% . There are...
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