Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Chicago area native David Broder has one of the sharpest political minds in the business. In his latest Washington Post column, he interprets the effect of Tuesday's elections. Former Republican congressman Vin Weber said he sees the Democrats in "a difficult position. A year ago, they thought they were entering a new progressive era. It was 1932 again. But within a couple months,...
Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
It looks like the tea bagger lost in NY-23. And you know what happened in the other two races. There’s not much of a lesson to be learned from a bunch of low turn-out races in an odd year. But if you didn’t already know that running to the center in a state your [...]
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
David Broder of the Washington Post is not waiting for Tuesday’s election results to start looking at 2010. He sees bright spots for Republicans, who as the Out Party have the historic advantage in mid-term elections. “The gubernatorial battles especially will be worth watching. It is there that Republicans have their best opportunity to find the [...]
SchansBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, he ought to be banned-- if Obama is going to chastise Fox. David Broder got it right (also in the C-J )-- and even the C-J editorialists gave an accurate representation ("GOP's Good Day"). Dems should be worried. But the GOP is not necessarily producing a great alternative and is prone to at least some troubles with civil war. But Dionne is hopelessly biased or needs to...
Safe Democracy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
David Broder 11/5/2009 This week’s elections bore out several important themes in advance of next year’s midterm congressional campaign. The governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey both showed that a strong conservative candidate can succeed in traditionally liberal states. Moreover, President Obama campaigned heavily for the incumbent Governor Corzine in New Jersey, so...
Steam Powered Opinions (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... to be the most shallow major oped writer in America and if she isn't she's close enough to make David Broder sweat. If you opened to a dead tree copy of the WSJ, turned to Noonan's column and extended a gentle breath I have to believe that Noonan's column would simply flitter off the page like pedals off of a dandelion. Let's see what Noonan has to say, The biggest threat to America...
The Whig (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... for both parties on the decline, is there a real opening for independent/third party candidates? David Boaz, executive vice president of The Cato Institute , said: There's a lot of dissatisfaction out there. David Broder quotes a Peter Hart memo to Democrats about "the disappointment and disgust the American public feels toward Washington. It is as strongly negative as...
What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... cultural historians and critics. Whether in the watered-down approach of a social commentator like David Broder, or a far more sophisticated approach such as Alan Bloom, there is this belief that the acceptance of difference on a social, cultural, and political level is an error because it ignores the singularity of Truth. This is why, to those who have faith in democracy and the...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
David Broder packs an awful lot of ignorance into these two sentences of his bizarrely hostile column about the Senate’s health care reform bill and the opt-out compromise. If a health care reform with an opt-out provision were to become law this year or next, one of the first states you might expect to exempt itself [...]
Third Base Politics (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... expectations game the way I had hoped. It was President Obama and Washington Post political dean David Broder. Go figure. First, Broder: The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, where health-care legislation still languishes, but in Virginia, New Jersey and northern New York state, where President Obama's endorsements...
From On High (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... The most the Post has been able to muster is this sort of Democratic-laden spin provided by David Broder on the final Sunday. He bemoans that Deeds just couldn’t connect with the Obama voters who came out in 2008: " But Deeds, a soft-spoken campaigner from a rural county, has struggled to connect with those voters. And McDonnell, whose political roots are in the religious...
