the weaker party

One of the themes we start classes with is the need for an educated public to be the backbone of a democratic republic, but there's an a...

Details here . The vote - almost all party line - was 236 - 181. Here are some random posts on the general topic: - Story in the Washing...

Bruce Bartlett finds evidence that Tea Party members, on average, cannot correctly answer questions about taxes . This is not a surprising r...

That's what George Will calls Palin's supporters . Ouch. He takes aim at McCain and Palin's loose understanding of the Constit...

From the Chron : 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim. Obama is a Christian who ...

Back in grad school days, one of the biggest controversies in the political science literature concerned the nature of the electorate. Are ...