Post-election Links
Ah election time, the things that happen. Via wolfkit.
Arnie seems to carry some weight with Californians.
What one can learn from post-election comment. Via razerwolf.
Actually, compared to those other 'programmatic North-East liberals', McGovern in 72, Mondale in 84 and Dukakis in 88, Kerry did relatively well, as one can see from this election data site (though I think that is more of a comment on the weakness of the incumbent). And if the hot morals issues is gay marriage, with, according to exit polls, a majority of Americans supporting either gay marriage or civil unions, the debate has moved a long way. Moreover, proportionately far fewer voters nominated 'moral issues' or equivalents in this election compared to recent Presidential elections.
How the pollsters did.
Thinking about conservatism’s appeal. About social conservatism’s appeal in the US. Shifts in votes by belief.
I am increasingly convinced that much of the European elite really has never got over Europe no longer being Boss Continent. Read this piece of smug condescension and tell me I’m wrong.
Why the left needs to pull down the Great Wall of Chomsky. Oliver Kamm gives an example of the Chomsky Method at work. Chomsky’s appeal of emotion over reason. A demolishing review of Chomsky’s latest which equates the US with Nazi Germany. (If a prominent right-wing intellectual went around saying Kerry or Clinton was a Leninist really, everyone would laugh at them. It is sadly revealing that the reverse does not apply.)
Bill Kristol engages in some quiet triumphalism. Victor Davis Hansen is less reticent. Michael Ledeen engages in some gloating over the Guardian Clark County letter-writing campaign. Hard not to, really. While this list of ‘looking on the bright side’ is just very, very funny. And while we’re at it, let’s laugh at Mike Moore. (If the election had gone the other way, I would be linking to religious types weeping and wailing.)
This map cycles between county votes in 2000 and in 2004. Then there is the shaded-electoral map. (As per normal for Michael J Totten’s blog, there are some interesting comments.) An amusing post-election map.
Dubya got somewhere between 60 & 80% of new voters. And did Democrat Senate Leader Daschle lose more than his own Senate seat? Terrorism was the crucial issue. Thoughts for Democrats.
Meanwhile, disappointed Democrats are getting depressed and fleeing to Canada, NZ, Australia … (Hmmm, there may be a bit of a problem with picking the last destination.) Post-election depression and the Guardian’s history of scare-mongering.
Apparently, Clinton told Kerry to back the gay marriage and civil union bans: Kerry declined.
The cultural divide of Worldly America versus Godly America. And whose fault’s the depth of the divide?
A robustly public-choice analysis of what is likely from the Republicans over the next four years.
A blunt and succinct letter to the editor.
More on how to be very unpersuasive. Perhaps we should blame Mike Moore (and Michael J is right, the crazies are taking over is emotionally easier than we fucked up and lost).
Arnie seems to carry some weight with Californians.
What one can learn from post-election comment. Via razerwolf.
Actually, compared to those other 'programmatic North-East liberals', McGovern in 72, Mondale in 84 and Dukakis in 88, Kerry did relatively well, as one can see from this election data site (though I think that is more of a comment on the weakness of the incumbent). And if the hot morals issues is gay marriage, with, according to exit polls, a majority of Americans supporting either gay marriage or civil unions, the debate has moved a long way. Moreover, proportionately far fewer voters nominated 'moral issues' or equivalents in this election compared to recent Presidential elections.
How the pollsters did.
Thinking about conservatism’s appeal. About social conservatism’s appeal in the US. Shifts in votes by belief.
I am increasingly convinced that much of the European elite really has never got over Europe no longer being Boss Continent. Read this piece of smug condescension and tell me I’m wrong.
Why the left needs to pull down the Great Wall of Chomsky. Oliver Kamm gives an example of the Chomsky Method at work. Chomsky’s appeal of emotion over reason. A demolishing review of Chomsky’s latest which equates the US with Nazi Germany. (If a prominent right-wing intellectual went around saying Kerry or Clinton was a Leninist really, everyone would laugh at them. It is sadly revealing that the reverse does not apply.)
Bill Kristol engages in some quiet triumphalism. Victor Davis Hansen is less reticent. Michael Ledeen engages in some gloating over the Guardian Clark County letter-writing campaign. Hard not to, really. While this list of ‘looking on the bright side’ is just very, very funny. And while we’re at it, let’s laugh at Mike Moore. (If the election had gone the other way, I would be linking to religious types weeping and wailing.)
This map cycles between county votes in 2000 and in 2004. Then there is the shaded-electoral map. (As per normal for Michael J Totten’s blog, there are some interesting comments.) An amusing post-election map.
Dubya got somewhere between 60 & 80% of new voters. And did Democrat Senate Leader Daschle lose more than his own Senate seat? Terrorism was the crucial issue. Thoughts for Democrats.
Meanwhile, disappointed Democrats are getting depressed and fleeing to Canada, NZ, Australia … (Hmmm, there may be a bit of a problem with picking the last destination.) Post-election depression and the Guardian’s history of scare-mongering.
Apparently, Clinton told Kerry to back the gay marriage and civil union bans: Kerry declined.
The cultural divide of Worldly America versus Godly America. And whose fault’s the depth of the divide?
A robustly public-choice analysis of what is likely from the Republicans over the next four years.
A blunt and succinct letter to the editor.
More on how to be very unpersuasive. Perhaps we should blame Mike Moore (and Michael J is right, the crazies are taking over is emotionally easier than we fucked up and lost).