A recent McClatchy-Marist poll, written up in Talking Points Memo, that says that 64% of Americans believe that “the country is on the wrong track.” The article however, does not delve into exactly *why* the 64% surveyed believe America is on the road to ruin or what “wrong track” we’re on. The poll results give [...]

The right wing firmly believes that their victory in the house and the few senate seats they took away from Democrats was the equivalent of a tsunami of support and this is Real America’s mandate on the Obama Agenda. As I pointed out over at Chicagoist, the “tsunami” was really more of a few big [...]

Now that Republicans took the House from the Democrats, expect to hear about freedom’s march to Washington from now until 2012, when our Kenyan Commandant in Chief is outsted by an electorate wrapped in flags wearing tri corner hats. If Republicans are right, that the mid-term elections are indeed a “mandate” on the secret socialist [...]

Now that the polls have closed and American voters are either flaunting their victories or crying in their post electoral concession beers, voters can rest easy that they helped facilitate some change or did their civic duty. Major corporations, “super” PAC’s and the candidates they backed can run at least one victory lap though, even [...]

If the following words were never used again in the political lexicon during election season, it would still be too soon: Marxist, Anti-American, Washington Insider, PAC, Fascist. There’s probably alot more where that came from.

John Kerry pointed out a few weeks back something anyone with a minute understanding of media studies should already know: “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.” Not surprisingly, [...]

On another blog site I spend time on, I found a post that does a good job of illustrating one of the major problems in American politics. The author asks why “the left” is “so stupid.” According to the post, the left is shooting itself in the foot by “bashing” President Obama and not simply [...]