Tag: election
member name: John M.
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October 22, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
One frequent challenge to my previously expressed centrist views can be framed as follows: How do you reconcile your professed frustration with the status quo of our governments current policy positions . . . more
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November 05, 2006 11:41 AM EST --
From where I sit in a Northeastern blue state two days before the midterm election two messages from the people are about to be delivered. To George Bush: You have made errors in Iraq that will have devastating . . . more
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November 15, 2006 09:36 AM EST --
For twelve long years the Democratic Party has been relegated to a backwater societal role equivalent to the "Ungodly Unwashed" of premodern India. The recent tumultuous election rinsed all of . . . more
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November 26, 2006 04:36 PM EST --
I disagree with all the conservative pundits who say that the Democrats have no mandate from the voting public. But then again, I also disagree with old line liberals who assert that now is the time to . . . more
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November 07, 2006 11:35 AM EST --
Rx for losers: What will happen to every ones failed predictions? There is a guaranteed prescription for every such errant prognostication. For those eligible for Medicare, prescription drugs, the painful . . . more
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December 03, 2006 04:07 PM EST --
Everyone has been puzzled as to why Bush waited till after the election to announce that Rumsfeld was leaving when it may have served his interests and those of the Party to do so prior to the vote. The . . . more
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October 24, 2006 11:59 AM EDT --
Little old dingy and neglected New London Ct. has never attracted as much national attention as it did last night. The setting was the Garde Performing Arts Center and this performance was a spectacle . . . more
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November 03, 2006 10:04 AM EST --
The fourth debate between candidates for the Senatorial position in Connecticut currently occupied by Joe Lieberman was taped yesterday at Quinnipiac University. Lieberman who had not agreed to this additionally . . . more
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April 26, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
In today's New York Times David Brooks reveals something about Barack Obama that came up in an interview. His favorite philosopher is Reinhold Niebuhr. David examined several possible implications . . . more
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October 21, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
Ned Lamont has a lot going for him in the upcoming election against Joe Lieberman, the incumbent Senator from Connecticut. He is bringing out all his guns, in this upcoming week, and will be using his . . . more
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October 28, 2006 11:07 AM EDT --
It's raining heavily this Saturday in Connecticut and the winds are gusting at 25 to 40 mph. Folks are home for the weekend and happy not to have to go out and shatter the pervasive stillness with . . . more
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November 11, 2006 11:18 AM EST --
As we survey the domestic and international terrain over the next two years it should be apparent to all that US ascendancy and triumphalism will not characterize the period. This will be a time for modesty . . . more
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October 23, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --
This is a discussion that was buried under a number of comments in my previous blog but helps me further clarify the term Centrist.
I have a problem with "centrist" viewpoints: what the h*ll . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:58 AM EST --
I just finished reading Paul Krugman's article in today's New York Times. He is positively giddy and couldn't help "flashing" a long past article of his having predicted this outcome. . . . more
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November 17, 2006 08:35 AM EST --
Most of the scuttle but around the Democratic Majority Leader position centered on the role played by Nancy Pelosi. Why was this so important to her that she would risk almost certain defeat on this, her . . . more
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June 05, 2007 09:20 AM EDT --
Now that Americans have been rudely awakened by a virtual waterfall of books and commentary and failed policy, to the dangers of a theocratic government, guess what? The Democratic Party has decided "if . . . more
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October 19, 2006 03:17 PM EDT --
In the second of two debates between the candidates for governor of Connecticut Jodi Rell the incumbent faced off with John DeStefano Mayor of New Haven. In my last article about the first debate I questioned . . . more
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November 19, 2006 11:45 AM EST --
Elections are so much more than recording and counting votes. Tallies of Huge numbers are attempts to simplify so we can better grasp what is happening, state by state, in this huge complicated country . . . more
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December 14, 2006 11:00 AM EST --
Why do all our Presidential candidates have to be Governors or Senators or Lawyers? I am unhappy with being limited to those choices alone. Where is it written that only those with political experience . . . more
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October 11, 2006 04:45 PM EDT --
The senate race in Connecticut is unique and prophetic for where the country is headed on Nov. 7th. The same could be said since before the Foley scandal when the polls were similar to recent results. . . . more
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