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.
A collection of some behind the scenes shots from Obama’s last campaign.
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
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
After calling for Texas to secede from the union over Obama win, Texas Republican explains that “many members of minority groups are simply racist against the party most white people happen to vote for.”
I just read this piece by David Brooks. In it he finds his way to an interesting observation — new groups entering the American story (he’s speaking specifically about Hispanics and Asians) have many of the values Republicans claim to celebrate — hard work, entrepreneurialism, dedication to family. And yet they’re voting for Democrats by overwhelming proportions. And Brooks says it’s because Republicans ‘Big government is squashing your liberty and economic opportunity’ line just doesn’t make any sense to these people. Read More