Why wouldn't you care about proportionality to some extent? I can see the argument that proportionality isn't the be all and end all, and that you'd rather sacrifice that to some exten… (View Post)

The Conservatives are oddly fetishistic people nowadays, between the flag furore and this, just this week. In the past, Conservatives were the pragmatists, chiding others for having fixed ideologies … (View Post)

Would he be backed by Obama? Obama is very careful with his endorsements. He can't go throwing around endorsements to losers - that's burning political capital. He might give some modest en… (View Post)

Inspired by the topic, I was looking up the youngest major US Presidential candidate so far - William Jennings Bryan, aged 36 in 1896 as it turns out. I thought Wikipedia had an astonishingly modern … (View Post)

Politicians don't really have a habit of coming back when the sheen is gone. They can hang around for months, sometimes years. But you underestimate how much power is a con trick. When you'… (View Post)