“Parsing the Polls,” Michael G Franc: Last week, the Gallup Organization provided more fodder for the debate over whether this year’s polls are skewed due to a systematic over-representation of Democrats in the samples. If Gallup has it right, Governor Romney’s lead may be several percentage points greater than the most recent round of polls suggests. Gallup reviewed all of its interviews with “likely voters” conducted since October 1. Its

Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page columnist, at RCP: If Romney wins the presidency on Tuesday, the national media, the Washington establishment and the bulk of academia will have missed something huge that happened in “flyover” America under their watch. It is a story that few have told. It reminds one of the famous quip by New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael following Richard Nixon’s landslide 1972 victory: “I live

CNS: If Americans under the age of 18 were required as a group to pay off the entirety of the federal government’s debt in equal shares, each would now need to pay about $218,676. That is more than the $130,468 average price tag for four years at a private college or the $173,100 median price for an existing one-family home in the United States. During the time Barack Obama has

Who, he notes, has done an historic job combating the country’s biggest threat: carbon pollution. Yes, carbon pollution. Which weighs far more heavily on the minds of those Americans who actually matter than, say, a lack of jobs, or the enormous debt, or the impending implosion of the welfare state. And on that issue, the seminal issue of carbon’s relentless attack on our ecosystem, Barack Obama has been a fierce

Back in 2008, then-PW contributor Karl wrote a series of posts about a pattern he had discerned in American elections since the end of the Second World War: that every 16 years — starting in 1960 — there has been a “change” election where the Democrat presidential ticket has benefited from an exploitable public fatigue with recent Republican governance. In 1960 the outgoing incumbent president, Dwight Eisenhower, was 70 years

Ann Althouse points to Axelrod’s loathsome behavior on Fox News Sunday, laughing when Chris Wallace brings up the topic of Libya: Now, I’m not one to typically see my OUTRAGE meter pegged. Even here, I don’t think Axelrod was laughing at the Libyan debacle and subsequent risible cover-up attempt. Instead, he was laughing because he knew Wallace would raise the question, and he was trying to intimate that the very

So far he’s been unsuccessful — he’s finding lots of misery, property damage, dislocation, power outages, and the sort of thing you’d find after any kind of major national disaster in a city perhaps too reliant on government services for cleanup, but as of yet no Staten Island natives squatting ape-like over the carcasses of their fellow Islanders, sawing off chunks of flesh with the lids from empty tuna cans

Heed the call!