David Mislin

NEW Crystal Ball -- Six gubernatorial rating changes today in favor of Democrats, but Republicans still have a chance to buck the usual pattern of midterm governorship loss for the president's party

So wait Pittsburgh isn’t even a city it’s just 100 little towns in a trenchcoat.

Sen. Joni Ernst: "People are split on this, but they understand the threat to the homeland and if we want to protect Americans here, we have to send our service men abroad"

When Democrats wanted to eliminate the filibuster in 2022, I stood my ground because I understood the consequences of turning the Senate into a glorified House with simple majority rule. Senator John Cornyn said of Democrats at the time: “They'll soon find themselves rueing the day their party broke the Senate.” The filibuster exists to make both sides work together and produce good legislation that can withstand the test of time. Eliminating the filibuster would consolidate even more power into the hands of the majority party’s leadership — and take power away from the minority and everyday Americans. When I was a U.S. Senator, there was not another person more committed to keeping the filibuster than Senator John Cornyn. He understood the incredible political pressure I faced from my former party to get rid of the filibuster and give Democrats complete power — and at the time, he understood why neither party should take our country past this point of no return. The filibuster — the soul of the Senate — has preserved the Senate’s role for nearly 250 years as the institution that cools passions, protects minority voices, and demands consensus. America was built on institutions designed to resist political convenience, not surrender to it. It’s deeply disappointing to see that Senator Cornyn is now willing to scrap the very rule he once praised and personally thanked me for defending. These extreme election-year politics that put party power over everything else are why Americans are sick and tired of the duopoly of the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans.

The truth about conducting research off the tenure track is that unless your job description explicitly mentions research, it will be seen as a distraction from your actual job, and you will not be provided with the funding, time, or intellectual community to do it successfully.

Yes, Talarico is a devout Christian attending a seminary, and that genuinely does help, but he's a quite liberal variant of a Christian, and evangelicals will know *exactly* what going to a PCUSA seminary means. Again, can win. But his issues are deeper than just "Texas=red."

Those magazines they had in airplane seat back pockets full of ads where they’d highlight new cities they’d added a once-weekly flight to like “Go see the brewery! They have a cave! The historic one block! A chef who used to live in New York opened a small plates restaurant!”

Re: Newsom... It's a downright clown car/mess for the Dems ahead of 2028... No one is close to clearing 25% in early national polling for the first since the 1992 cycle. Newsom is flailing a bit after a hot summer, as interest in him on Google is down over 60% from August.

I *sort of* get the prog/podsaveamerica circling the wagons around Planter. Aside from aping (the worst parts of) the modern right, Maine is littered with the bones of Mills-type challengers to Collins. A Planter *type* is probably the best way to beat her.

Speaking to Post employees, Murray says today is about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."