I’m still trying to get my head around the exact details. But today’s Israeli election does not seem to have gone as most anticipated. It’s not clear to me that the actual government or rather PM will be different. But everyone has been operating on the premise that the Israeli polity is locked on the right or center-right and just getting righter.

But the results didn’t bear that out. Read More

Al Franken’s numbers looking good for reelection in Minnesota next year.