Hard for me to imagine that the President could waive this sort of thing. But maybe not. From a TPM Reader who does federal employment law … Read More
Okay, this really doesn’t have anything to do with Nate Silver — apples and oranges. And I didn’t even know we were doing this piece. But this is awesome. Because I remember very well when this book came out. I think I even reviewed it on TPM at the time.
Back in 2002 my friends Ruy Teixeira and John Judis wrote a book called The Emerging Democratic Majority. Read More
A collection of some behind the scenes shots from Obama’s last campaign.
The Supreme Court today decided to take up the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — a decision that could have enormous and far-reaching consequences.
CIA Director David Petraeus resigns over an extramarital affair.
Like most people I find this news pretty flabbergasting. I will say there’s some important context: extra-marital affairs in CIA, however common they may be, are always a big, big deal since they invite potential blackmail. So whatever else is going on here it’s significantly different than an ordinary politician having an affair. But still, wow.
PollTracker editor Kyle Leighton is hosting a live chat at 3pm eastern in the Prime Blog, so get your questions in now.
Obama lays down his first post-election marker on the looming budget negotiations. Watch.
Once again, the top source of voter fraud in the United States today seems to be James O’Keefe wannabes “testing” the system by committing voter fraud. These two Republican clowns were apparently trying to do that. Now they’re in custody.
In other words, the enforcement system seems to be working pretty well. And the clearly a lengthy prison term is in order.
We’re doing our best to keep bringing you the news from our New York office. But alas Time Warner Cable, our primary local internet provider, seems to have a new policy of blaming Hurricane Sandy for local Internet outages that seem totally unrelated to Sandy. Sandy is a huge problem for everyone in the area. But using it as an excuse for unrelated issues that you’re choosing not to fix seems really uncool.
So if you see new posts in Morse Code, you’ll know Time Warner Cable’s war on TPM has been temporarily successful.
But we will not give up. We will fight on the help lines, on the fiber optic cable, on the twitter DMs. We shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this website or a large part of it were muzzled, then our DC office guarded by better connectivity, will carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, someone gets their act together and stops making up stories and gets us back our usually semi-reliable office Internet.