tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post8890609700670606724..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You ShouldJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-21017800583935315522012-11-21T11:43:09.578-06:002012-11-21T11:43:09.578-06:00I was thinking the other day, Joe Biden has never ...I was thinking the other day, Joe Biden has never lost a general election! Nine times he has been on the ballot in November and nine times he has won.<br />Compare that to Mitt's OBPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-66088520347387796572012-11-20T10:39:55.291-06:002012-11-20T10:39:55.291-06:00Oops, I meant "This is off-topic, Jonathan.&q...Oops, I meant "This is off-topic, Jonathan."David Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-91724635705244659582012-11-20T10:39:08.698-06:002012-11-20T10:39:08.698-06:00This is off-topic, David, but reading your Washing...This is off-topic, David, but reading your Washington Post article on how gerrymanders weren't responsible for the Democrats' not winning the House (because even under the preceding apportionment Democrats would have done only slightly better), I liked the comment of one person, "And the previous districts weren't gerrymandered?" I think that's right to the point. Maybe the Democrats wouldn't have done much better under the 2001 apportionments of Ohio and Pennsylvania and Michigan, but these were GOP gerrymanders just as much as their successors were! (True, the gerrymanders didn't work in 2006 and 2008 in Pennsylvania or in 2008 in Ohio and Michigan--but this just shows that gerrymanders aren't sufficient in a "wave" election. 2012 was a good year for Democrats but not a true "wave" election.)David Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-9821639898709120942012-11-20T08:54:58.786-06:002012-11-20T08:54:58.786-06:00State legislative supermajorities -- the other big...State legislative supermajorities -- the other big story of the 2012 elections, even less noticed initially than the liberal shift in the Senate:<br />http://news.yahoo.com/powerful-supermajorities-elected-statehouses-194730460.htmlPFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00263515090451316188noreply@blogger.com