A plain blog about politics

NBC's Chuck Todd now predicts, according to Matt Lewis over at the Daily Caller, that if Rick Perry does win the nomination that a third...

Over at Outside the Beltway, Doug Mataconis seems to know an awful lot about me. He knows how much I know about Pennsylvania politics (very...

President Nixon: What about the rich Jews? Haldeman: Well, that's -- President Nixon: You see, IRS is full of Jews, Bob. We're i...

You might remember the endless months in 2009 in which health care reform passage ground to a halt while Max Baucus pursued negotiations wit...

My Plum Line post today is about the possibility that Republicans may switch Pennsylvania's electoral vote system to a Maine-like distri...

I'm not sure why I've been so Friedman-focused lately (maybe it's just Seth's fault ), but... So Tom Friedman's column...

I did one of these back in August, and I sort of liked it, so here's a follow-up. You'll note that one question here is a repeat, si...