Our longtime TPM Reader JB says man up …
Your reader “JM” offers a counsel of despair, one that very honestly I rather expect from Democrats (especially the most liberal Democrats) during times of political adversity.
From TPM Reader JM …
I have been helping a legal immigrant prepare for the citizenship test by reviewing American civics with him. In this process, what has come to my attention is that the trend of constitutional amendments is to expand the scope of who can vote. Out of a total of only 27 amendments to the constitution in our history, a significant portion deal with this expansion of the scope of who can vote. Of course now blacks and women can vote because of amendments to the constitution (15th and 19th amendments). It is also interesting to note that 2 of the last 4 amendments to our constitution have had to do with expanding the vote- for those who can’t afford a poll tax (24th amendment), and for those only 18 years old(26th amendment).
TPM Reader JM takes a look into a dark future …
I feel compelled to write in part to put together many things that all of you already know and have been reporting on your website for the past couple years. But with the release of the May unemployment numbers–and the strangely widespread consensus that Romney is now the frontrunner (that was fast)–I’ve had some time to reflect on just how damaging the Great Recession has really been.
I hadn’t noticed this when it first came out. But early last month Jonah Goldberg went on a general tirade against the role of young voters in politics, arguing — perhaps in jest, perhaps not — that the voting age should be changed back to 21 or made even higher. Read More
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A judge has tossed out a lawsuit World Net Daily brought against Esquire for a story making fun of the publication’s birtherism.
Ezra Klein makes the case that Romney might actually be the more effective Keynesian in 2013 because Republicans would let him govern and not be focused on crashing the economy.
It’s a more detailed version of what David Frum has been saying: Vote Republican, it’s too dangerous to have us in opposition.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we just debuted three new original video shows here at TPM. And to put all our video at your fingertips (original shows and awesome rapid-fire clips) we’ve just rolled a new video landing page linked right over there on the upper right hand side of the site, right above LiveWire.
Please take a look; let us know what you think and if there are any improvements you’d suggest.
Interesting new data from Pew. It won’t surprise any of us that partisan affiliation has grown more intense over the last 25 years. But according to this data from Pew basically all other measures have remained stable. In other words, we’re no more divided — according to this data — on racial or gender or education or income grounds. But now it’s party affiliation that is the big dividing line throughout American society. Partisanship is the big, big outlier. Take a look.