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GOP Primary Candidate Venn Diagaram #8: Ron Paul
GOP Primary Candidate Venn Diagram #7: Rick Santorum
And that, as they say, is what makes a horse race
GOP Primary Candidate Venn Diagram #6: Herman Cain
GOP Primary Candidate Venn Diagram #5: Rick Perry
GOP Primary Candidate Venn Diagram #4: Michele Bachmann
North vs. South (side of the Capitol, that is)
GOP Primary Candidate Venn Diagram #3: Willard Mitt Romney
Some Quick-hit House Floor Notes
GOP Primary Candidate Venn Diagram #2: Jon Huntsman Jr.
GOP Primary Candidate Venn Diagram #1: Newt Gingrich
Fasten your wonk belts: let's talk rule layover waivers in the House
On Supercommittees and Blooming
In this world but not of this world
Once upon a time, today was very important
Friday Congress Blogging: Unanimous Consent
Good, Bad, Ugly. Well, at least the latter two.
Imagine a boot stamping on a human face --- forever.
Thanksgiving Briefing Book, Part III: Strategies
Thanksgiving Briefing Book, Part II: Issue Choice
Thanksgiving Briefing Book, Part I: The Outlook
By the Numbers: Constitutional Amending in the House
All the news that's fit to incinerate
More on Perry's Plan: A Whig Perspective
I'll take "Things That Surprised Me" for $200
All Quiet on the Western Front
Turn-out, tune-in, and roll-off in Fairfax County, VA
Twelve minutes of popular sovereignty
Close enough for government work
Monday APD Blogging: Civil War and Western Politcial Development
Voter prep for local elections (plus my VA endorsements!)
Rank'em: Constitutional amendment edition
On figuring out what's important
Saturday APD-Congress Blogging: Clustered Voting in the House
Slim and none, and slim just wrote a Times op-ed
Ten years burning down the road
It doesn't matter. But in what way?
GOP Debate: Let's get historical!
Tuesday APD blogging: The case of the federal calendar
On populists and the establishment
Sunday whimsy: political conversations with my family
On Civil Disobedience and draft card burning
How would Watergate have played out absent the 25th amendment?
Posterior Perry-bility: A (semi-serious) Bayesian update of Rick Perry
Did William Jennigs Bryan's "cross of gold" speech crash the economy?
Happy Illigitimate Federal Holiday Day!
Friday whimsy: Inaugural Address Word Clouds
In (partial) defense of less democracy
On anti-incumbency and partisan landslides
Research Note: On writing your congressman
How often does the majority lose in the House?
On the credibility of veto threats
On no-longer-quite-as-special interests
On the meeting places of legislatures
On the effectiveness of campaigns
On Presidential Focus, Presidential Credit, and the Homestead Act
On the Properties of Great Card Games
On the possibiltiy of a centrist 3rd party in 2012
On Electoral College by Congressional District
Five Things I Expect to See in Tonight's GOP Debate
Why I won't be watching football at 1pm Sunday
Best otherwise unreleased B-side ever?
On Presidential Debates and Antebellum Nostalgia
On little-known books with large political impacts
On iconic lunch spots that smell like public bathrooms
On candidates holding odd jobs
On hair metal political analogies
On Market Reactions to Politics
More on the anti-empire amendment
A proposal for a 28th amendment: the anti-empire clauses
On capitalism and the ethics of the endtimes
On the history of political phrases
On the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act