A plain blog about politics

Byron York had an column on Rick Santorum yesterday, featuring an interview, and asserting that "Santorum will again be underestimated...

Sure, there's war, and unemployment, and all sorts of other terrible things...but at least we get the unreported story of the 2012 nomin...

Happy Birthday to Al Green, 66. Getting right to the good stuff: 1. Fred Kaplan on Iran, Israel, and the US elections . Not cheerful. ...

Happy Birthday to Tricia Helfer, 38. I'm almost done now with my second time through BSG, and I'm still totally impressed with her a...

I have a piece over at Plum Line looking forward towards the general election, but here's a couple of quick notes about Rick Santorum, ...

So which was the best "there's something seriously wrong with this party" episode this week? Was it Rick Santorum stating as f...

At Greg's place today, I reacted to the NYT FDA story about WH political interference in policy matters. Important point that I didn...

If you haven't yet seen Rick Santorum's amazing "Obamaville" ad, you really should...I'll send you over to Paul Waldma...

There was some talk last week and over the weekend that Rick Santorum had a delegate strategy -- that he was going to be fighting to get bet...

Well, that was decisive, no? Mitt Romney gets about 83% of the vote  to sweep all 20 delegates from Puerto Rico. Overkill: he only needed to...

Let's see...I have one over at Plum Line about the GOP nightmare scenario in which Santorum keeps "winning" every Tuesday nig...

At PostPartisan, I have some fun at the expense of a Santorum campaign strategy memo . Over at Salon, I look at the results of the Nyhan et...

I'm not sure whether I should give this one to BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski, who posted the clip, or to the Dutch TV correspondent do...

When will Rick Santorum drop out of the race (or at least concede it's over): After Tuesday (Mississippi/Alabama/Hawaii)? After Marc...

Alex Pareene, in an otherwise excellent Super Tuesday wrap yesterday, says: As could have been predicted shortly after he dropped out of t...

There was quite a bit of chatter about how Rick Santorum lost the Catholic vote in Michigan by knocking JFK. Well, guess what? Ed Kilgore sh...

Happy Birthday to Paul Krugman, 59, blogger , columnist, and, oh yeah, a pretty good economist, from what I understand. 1. Fascinating rep...

At Plum Line today, I argued that ACA is unlikely to be a significant liability for Barack Obama this fall -- and at any rate, the current ...

Rick Santorum’s latest effort to prove he’s in the mainstream is an accusation that Barack Obama wants kids to go to college because…America...

1. Why would a modern political party turn over a large chunk of influence over their nomination process to the candidate best able to...pac...