Marc Ambinder

• The Great Political Sort Continues

  New York's  House delegation is now 27-2 Democratic, or 93%.  (If you add in the senators it goes up to 94%.)  For comparison, Texas's House delegation is 63% Republican, Florida's is 60% Republican, and California's (counting Garamendi) is 64% Democratic.   In recent memory, has such a large state been so totally dominated by a [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  

• NY 23, Palin 0, Erick Erickson 1

  The CW take, courtesy of SNL's Seth Meyers, is that Sarah Palin's brand problems contributed to the defeat of the candidate she backed in the very special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District. But Republican candidates know who butters their bread. There are signs today that, far from taking [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:40pm EST
  

• Sarah From Alaska: The Truth And 2012

  An interview with Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy, the authors of some behind-the-scenes reportage about Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy, "Sarah from Alaska."
  
  You try hard to be fair in the book, but you chronicle, fairly persuasively, a large number of what seem to be fairly egregious' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:17pm EST
  

• Semiotics Of Marco Rubio's New Website

  Marco Rubio's new $$ site:  semioticians, have a go:  http://www.charlieandobama.com/   
  
  
  Looks like two guys about kiss, don't it?  Kinda a sensitive issue in Florida, where Gov. Crist was dogged by gay rumors... and where he embraced Barack Obama's stimulus package.  This is an' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:05am EST
  

• 11 Ways To Think About Tuesday Night

  1. The White House has trouble melding its approach to governing, and standards of transparency and brand of being above politics, with a strong-arming White House political operation willing and capable of leading the Democratic party to victory.
  
  2. Barack Obama's political coalition is not invincible and it is not perpetual. The Obama' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:06am EST