Obama’s error-free transition has hit significant speed bumps as 2008 made way for the new year.

By Jonah Goldberg

It’s become a cliché to say that the Republican Party has lost its identity and is wandering around aimlessly like a slow-witted kid abandoned at the mall. Of course, simply because it’s a cliché doesn’t mean it’s not pretty much true. The GOP does have real problems, because many Republicans treated their conservative [...]

by Gerald Baker
As America’s government prepares to take a sudden and historic leftward turn, this might seem an odd moment to ponder what a conservative country it is.

On Wednesday morning, unless the political equivalent of a giant meteorite hits Earth before then, Democratic supporters in America, in happy union with almost the whole of the [...]

by Michael Kinsley
In the 1943 movie Tender Comrade, Ginger Rogers utters the words “Share and share alike–that’s democracy.” Nobody objected at the time, but four years later, Rogers’ mother complained to the House Un-American Activities Committee that her daughter had been forced to express a communist sentiment. The scriptwriter, Dalton Trumbo (who actually was a [...]

Our latest Battleground poll shows that Barack Obama has solidly taken control of states that total 264 electoral votes, just six shy of the all-important 270 votes needed to win the presidential election.  John McCain, on the other hand has only secured 163 votes.  Eight states that total 111 electoral votes are all that’s left [...]

Brilliant post.
Source: Financial Times