Ohio: The Greater Appalachia Factor
Ohio In 2008, Obama only won Ohio with 51.2% of the vote, even with a D+8 electorate and an 8 point advantage with Independents. How […]
Articles by Hunter Wallace
More Polls, Polls, Polls
BRA (1) Romney over Obama in the NPR/Democracy Corps poll, 49-48. Kosher Republic says this is a D+4 poll. (2) Richard Cohen of the Wash […]
2008 Swing States Party ID
BRA, 2008 Here’s a little walk through Obama history: Iowa, Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, and Minnesota went for Obama because of Independent voters. McCain outperformed […]
Gallup: Romney Leads Early Voting
BRA H/T Kosher Republic Here’s the latest nail in O’s electoral coffin: an early voting deficit. Note: Combine that with a more elderly electorate, a […]
Rush on White Guilt
Florida Not bad. “Folks, this is last ditch desperation bottom of the barrel unseemly. It’s the Obama administration which wrote off the white working class […]
Polls, Polls, Polls and Recriminations
BRA First, the polls … (1) Rasmussen has Romney taking a 2 point lead in Ohio. (2) Gallup has Romney back up to 51 percent […]
100,000 Legitimate Comments
OD OD passes a new blogging milestone. This doesn’t include the spam comments or the thousands of testy exchanges that I have had to delete […]
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BRA Obama fears following in the footsteps of Gore … Note: Gore won the popular vote, right?
State of the South: Projected 2012 House and Senate Races
American South I’ve used the NY Times 2010 House Map and the NY Times 2012 House Race Map to check for changes in the partisan […]
Andrew Sullivan: Confederacy Voting For Romney
American South If Virginia and Florida go for Romney, Andrew Sullivan claims “it’s the Confederacy.” More like the Golden Circle. Note: Romney has a 29 […]
Ridiculous Polls
BRA The partisan composition of the electorate has changed dramatically since 2008, but many of the polls which have the presidential race tied in key […]
Marcus Lattimore Injury Video
South Carolina I remember watching Alabama’s Tyrone Prothro go down in a similar way a few years ago:
AP Poll: Racial Attitudes Hardening
BRA Here’s some numbers that support the Obama effect on White racial attitudes. The yoke of BRA is felt more heavily with Obama in the […]
Your First Time
BRA Obama’s making his closing argument for reelection:
“Forward” With Obama
BRA Obama is sounding more like a loser everyday: Big Bird, “Romnesia,” binders full of women, Richard Mourdock supports rapists, “battleships and bayonets,” etc. Now […]
When Americans Saw The Real Obama
WSJ The vultures are now beginning to circle over Obama’s campaign: “What he couldn’t do was present himself, when everyone was looking, as smaller than […]
Polls Show Widening Racial Gap
BRA If this is true, O is a goner for sure: “The 2012 election is shaping up to be more polarized along racial lines than […]
SNN Podcast: The Demise of Southern White Democrats
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast with Palmetto Patriot about the demise of the Southern White Democrat.
News From Obama’s Home State
Illinois A pretty good Walter Russell Mead essay … “Three states form the base of Democratic political power in the United States: California, New York […]
White Democrats Disappear From Deep South
American South We don’t even have to wait to election day … OD is confident enough to project that Mitt Romney will be elected president […]
Louisiana Fake Hate Crime
Louisiana Is the SPLC on top of this story? I haven’t checked. “Forensic evidence indicates that a 20-year woman suffering from extensive burns set herself […]
North Carolina Gone, Is Virginia Next?
North Carolina Romney started pulling resources out of North Carolina last week. Now Obama is falling back to Virginia. It is coming down to the […]
Live Thread: Third 2012 Presidential Debate
BRA Romney’s lead is holding steady: he has the best numbers in the Gallup Poll since 1968. Obama’s performance in the second debate changed nothing. […]
Romney Pulling Away In Florida, Locking Up North Carolina
Florida It’s over for Obama in North Carolina and Florida. In terms of early voting, Obama has the edge in Ohio, but Romney has the […]
Lawrence O’Donnell Threatens Tagg Romney
Massachusetts H/T Kosher Republic He invokes Boston’s ethnic divide between Anglo Protestants and Irish Roman Catholics:
Chris Hayes: Fossil Fuel Industry Is Like Slavery
MSNBC Chris Hayes compares the abolition of slavery to opposition to the fossil fuel industry: Note: Fighting “Global Climate Change” through the War on Coal […]
Those Jobless Claims
BRA Remember the headlines about 7.8 unemployment? The biggest jump in the economy since the early 1980s? Remember how the media and the comedians claimed […]
Romney’s Cracks The Blue Wall
American North Susquehanna Poll (Pennsylvania): Romney 49%, Obama 45% ARG Poll (Ohio): Romney 48%, Obama 47% Note: Obama is clinging to a 1 point lead […]
Tagg Romney: The Embodiment of White Privilege
Salon Here’s the current headline article at Salon: “Tagg Romney, grandson of George Romney, son of Mitt Romney, is the latest flesh-and-blood embodiment of White […]
Obama’s Northern Firewall
American North OD has said all along that Yankees are Obama’s base and that the election would be decided in the North: ” What also […]
Review: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
American South Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman’s 1974 book Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery is a mythbusting revisionist tour of […]
Live Thread: Second 2012 Presidential Debate
New York As expected, the story of the second debate proved to be Crowley’s role as the moderator. We knew going in that Crowley had […]