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Dave Weigel at Reason has a good piece on the prospects for William Lawson’s campaign in North Carolina — great candidate, excellent campaign, but the dead weight of Bush (and record Democratic turnout for Obama) may be too much may be too much. This year, anyway.
Lawson is blunt about the problem here. “The party has [...]
In at least two states, Libertarian Party candidates might. I don’t expect LP presidential nominee Bob Barr will pull enough votes away from McCain in his native Georgia to swing the state to Obama, but the Libertarian running for Senate, Allen Buckley, might have enough traction to prevent Saxby Chambliss from getting to 50 percent [...]
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For a glimpse into the reasons why the prospects for a revival of Republican fortunes anytime soon are dismal, have a look at John Podhoretz’s list of “10 reasons why McCain might win” (via Andrew Sullivan). For those readers who don’t have time to click “read more,” the executive summary is that every single item [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election
I’ll add to my prediction below that Ralph Nader will far outpace Bob Barr. But that’s a safe bet. What will be interesting to see is how close Chuck Baldwin, who is on fewer ballots (37 vs. 45), will get to Barr.
And thinking about it a bit more, I’m inclined to revise my pop [...]
My sense is that Obama will win the popular vote 52-48 percent, but since that’s also what the Evans-Novak Political Report is forecasting, I’ll make a more daring projection of 53-47 percent for the Democrat. Even that might be conservative, since I see little reason to think that undecideds (somewhere between 7 and 9 percent [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Foreign policy, Politics
I’ve blogged about William “B.J.” Lawson, who’s running to represent North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District, a couple of times before. He’s an outstanding candidate, endorsed by Ron Paul and for sound money, slashing government expenditures, and a noninterventionist foreign policy. If the GOP had more candidates like Lawson, it wouldn’t be in the sorry shape [...]
As a consequentialist I regard voting in an election not as a symbolic act that would demonstrate my ideological purity but as one that could actually make a difference. At the same time, based on the concept of rational ignorance I also recognize that I’m contstrained by my average level of intelligence and my available [...]
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Is this really how the McCain campaign wants to go down? Stunning.
Filed under: Election