It’s summer, and I’m having a hard time sitting down to write about anything at all.  Frankly, these days I’m even having a hard time sitting down to read the news, especially about politics—the usual source of my blog posts. A couple of days ago I read that President...

In my previous post Women and Politics: Dang It, We ARE Smarter! I said that I would discuss the 2008 election in a later post.  This is that post. 2008: Barack Obama Women: 56% Men: 49% Gap: 7 % points It’s old news that in 2008, women went overwhelmingly for Barack Obama: 56% of us...

It seems that it’s now Rick Santorum’s turn for 15 minutes of fame, in the Republican limelight, due to his very strong second-place finish in the Iowa caucus . The good news about Rick Santorum’s performance is that it got Michele Bachmann to drop out of the race (too bad it...

Rick Perry Forgets His Own “Plan Of Attack” A lot has been made of the fact that, during the last Republican debate on November 9th,  presidential candidate Rick Perry could not remember the third federal agency he would close down were he to become the next President of the...

Slate’s Peter Fulham observed that when you type “Romney Can Win” in a Google search bar, you get a rather surprising suggestion besides the “normal” search results.  By now, it’s pretty obvious to everyone that Romney is the Republicans’ second...