How neutrality between the two parties leads to a lack of objectivity on Iran, Social Security/Medicare, and the Catholic Church.

How the Vice President is shaping President Obama's foreign policy.

A strong claim, but the that foreign policy speech was pretty bad.

Identifying (some of) the incumbent's weaknesses.

Identifying (some of) the challenger's weaknesses.

No comment.

On a lighter note, I know who gets my vote for the Supreme Court of Michigan.

Tracking political polarization in America (and how it could be fixed).

The post-mortems begin!

"If [Obama] ends up winning, the skeptics—of whom I have been one—will have to acknowledge that the Obama team understands something important about twenty-first century politics that we don’t."

I feel like I am cheating on Nate Silver (my secret psephological boyfriend) by reading this. But if you're only doing it online it doesn't count.

Dan has difficulty doing so.

"They don't care, because it gets votes."

"The Romney camp wants to represent a bolder foreign policy, but without facing up to the trade-offs. They can see the same difficulties and considerations that shape President Obama's policies, and they want to slam his policies without being bold enough to forthrightly set aside those considerations. And based on this pathetic performa…

Romney/Ryan weakest GOP ticket since 1948 on foreign affairs. (My question is answered.)

Republicans and the Resolve Fairy.

The very few states where votes actually matter.

"By choosing Ryan, who has little foreign experience and who despite, like most of the people on the planet, being more exciting than Romney, is hardly an inspiring figure or great orator, Romney did not help himself"

The USA's democratic deficit.

Short answer: probably not. "...conditions on the ground continue to deteriorate, the world grows ever more tired of our endless fighting, and hope for a solution grows ever more dim."

"gun hysteria emerged in response to the civil rights movement." With evidence.

Roger Ebert: "This would be an excellent time for our political parties to join together in calling for restrictions on the sale and possession of deadly weapons. That is unlikely, because the issue has become so closely linked to paranoid fantasies about a federal takeover of personal liberties that many politicians feel they cannot afford t…

How to stop people voting the wrong way - don't let them vote at all!

Because sometimes politics is about real stuff.

"As Americans, we’re brought up our entire lives being taught that we’re the best, we did everything first and that the rest of the world follows our lead. Not only is this not true, but people get irritated when you bring it to their country with you. So don’t."

The conspiracy of silence.

"If Burns is correct that Iran is America's number one adversary in the world then truly the United States has little to worry about. Iran is a second rate military power, lacks an active nuclear program, is deeply isolated in the Middle East, has a poorly performing economy and has few allies or friends."

...but I think it will be Rubio.

Commentary from Lincoln Mitchell.

Realistic assessment on the limitations of the presidency.