November 7, 2012
Liberals Win Big, Up and Down the Ticket From landmark victories for marijuana and same-sex marriage to picking up seats in the Senate, the left gained much more than the presidency Tuesday. Read more. [Image: Reuters]

Liberals Win Big, Up and Down the Ticket

From landmark victories for marijuana and same-sex marriage to picking up seats in the Senate, the left gained much more than the presidency Tuesday.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

9:30am
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Filed under: Warren Politics News Liberals GOP Election 2012 
April 16, 2012
"The trick of politics is not to simply tack quickly to the middle, it is to convey sincerity to your true-believers and inspire as many others as possible to truly believe in you. Both have to happen."

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, on how partisanship is indispensable.

10:39am
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Filed under: Politics Centrists Liberals Conservatives 
April 11, 2012

Conservatives See Race Obsession on the Left, but Never on the Right

The fact is that racism and race-baiting are depressingly common in American life, and while I’ll eagerly join in condemning folks on the left when they’re guilty of either, it’s getting downright absurd to see so many conservatives behave as if the left is where all racial problems in politics originate. Says Foster, “I do believe that there is a coalition on the Left whose material interest is in the forestalling of a ‘post-racial America,’ not its arrival.” Okay. And how about Newt Gingrich. Is his “material interest” in bringing about or forestalling a post-racial America? How about Lou Dobbs? Glenn Beck? Breitbart.com? Roger Ailes? Where do their “material interests” line up? Is it really so difficult to see how that standard cuts in both directions? 

In America, as in other countries, race and power are related to one another in all sorts of complicated ways. Power corrupts, and it is exploited by partisans of the right and the left, probably not in precisely equal measure, though determining which side behaves worse is beside the point. A lot of conservatives want to use the existence of abuses on the left to justify all manner of nonsense.

Read more.

3:32pm
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Filed under: Politics Race Racism Conservatives Liberals 
February 13, 2012
Why America Keeps Getting More Conservative The map above charts the ideological divide across America’s states. There are four states where conservatives make up more than half the population: Mississippi, Utah, Wyoming, and Alabama. Conservatives make up more than 40 percent in 20 more states. Liberals now outnumber conservatives in just one state, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. The ongoing economic crisis appears to have deepened that conservative drift, which is most pronounced in its least well off, least educated, most blue collar, most economically hard-hit states. Read more. [Image: Gallup]

Why America Keeps Getting More Conservative

The map above charts the ideological divide across America’s states. There are four states where conservatives make up more than half the population: Mississippi, Utah, Wyoming, and Alabama. Conservatives make up more than 40 percent in 20 more states. Liberals now outnumber conservatives in just one state, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia.

The ongoing economic crisis appears to have deepened that conservative drift, which is most pronounced in its least well off, least educated, most blue collar, most economically hard-hit states. Read more.

[Image: Gallup]

10:55am
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Filed under: Politics America Charts Liberals Economy 
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