Joel E Lewis

The Republican base is being supplemented by older generations shifting away from the Democrats, which might have some interesting ramifications for republican policy: In a way, these figures should make small-government conservatives a lot more nervous than they make partisan Republicans. After all, you can win an awful lot of elections just by mobilizing the [...]

The NYTimes has a must read article on the tea party movement.  For me there were three key takeaways: The Tea Party movement is redefining and enlarging the radical right, which could have significant impact in the primaries. People strongly believe ideas that to put it bluntly, I find completely nuts. This movement is being [...]