Partly on topic: The 2006 Senate election in Connecticut was won by Joe Lieberman, after he lost the first two contests. He lost the convention endorsement of the Democratic Party by a large margin t… (View Post)

Off topic, but so funny I have to share it. Near the beginning of a long Washington Post article on the pre-war failures of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Ukraine is this single-senten… (View Post)

Andy_JS - It is absolutely true that Trump owes some of his support to problems that weren't addressed. For example: During the Obama years, life expectancy fell: "The average life expectan… (View Post)

rcs1000 said: "There's a lot of evidence that candidates without political experience do - on average - worse that seasoned politicians." Let me extend that: There's a lot of evid… (View Post)

Speculation: If Chief Justice John Roberts had had his way and gotten the Court to issue a narrow ruling, without formally over ruling Roe v. Wade, the poltical fallout would have been much less, eit… (View Post)