Category Archives: political polarization
FairVote Infographics on Fair Representation and Gridlock
Available here.
“RNC Accuses NBC and CNN of Boosting Hillary, Threatens to Nix Debates”
WaPo reports on the RNC’s response to the networks’ planned Hillary films. Chair Reince Preibus calls them a “thinly veiled attempt at putting a thumb on the scales of the 2016 presidential election,” and says: ““If they have not agreed… Continue reading
“Political Polarization as Massive Resistance”
Bloomberg, on two Americas, “increasingly regionalized, polarized and diverging” (contra Obama 2004).
“Congress: Divided, discourteous _ taking a break”
AP’s David Espo: “The accomplishments are few, the chaos plentiful in the 113th Congress, a discourteous model of divided government now beginning a five-week break.”
More:
Legislation linking interest rates on student loans to the marketplace passed, and, too,… Continue reading
“Judging the (un)productivity of the 113th Congress”
“Leahy Eyes ‘Nuclear Option’ Threat to Confirm Judges”
“Saboteurs in the Potato Salad”
Tim Egan:
Just now, a cell of several hundred people has been dispatched into the American summer, to picnics, town halls, radio stations, hospitals and Little League playing fields, with a mission to derail the economic recovery and drum up… Continue reading
“GOP Telegraphs Mass Filibuster Of Obama’s Top Judges”
“G.O.P. Rifts Lead Congress to Spending Impasse”
“When Congress Refuses to Govern”
Jonathan Capehart writes for WaPo’s PostPartisan, discussing, among other things, my empirical research, End of the Dialogue: Political Polarization, the Supreme Court and Congress.
“In Senate, Arm-Twisting and Vote-Changing Lead to a Confirmation”
Quote of the Day from Jonathan Bernstein
“It made for dramatic CSPAN-2 watching, at least until the long wait for the flight from North Dakota began.”
—Senate Deal Holds [on filibuster]