The Perils of Poor Judgment
Today Barack Obama may get a rude awakening. As Jay Cost notes: Coakley will rightly get most of the blame should Brown actually pull off what once seemed to be an impossible victory. Yet much of the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Jay Cost thinks moderate Democrats need to take their party back from Obama: “If moderate House Democrats don’t stand up to him now, he’ll do it on cap-and-trade, immigration reform, and who knows what...
View ArticlePolitical Crack
Jay Cost, who has been analyzing poll data for Real Clear Politics for the past six years, has joined the Weekly Standard as a staff writer and filed the first of what will be a daily morning report on...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
There’s an understatement: “Juan Williams said Friday morning that NPR fired him this week because the radio network had become ‘vindictive’ over his appearances on Fox News.” Exhibit A: “NPR CEO...
View ArticleSenate Coming into Focus
The House outcome is no longer in dispute. As Jay Cost put it, it is either a tsunami or a ”tsunami-to-end-all-tsunamis.” But in the Senate, with fewer seats up for grabs and the ones in play in Blue...
View ArticleWhere Is the 10th?
The Democratic Public Policy Polling outfit has a spate of final polls showing GOP candidates leading narrowly in Nevada, Illinois, Washington, and Colorado. Rand Paul and Pat Toomey are pulling away....
View ArticleIs Obama Staging a Comeback?
Is President Barack Obama “staging a comeback in the eyes of the American people,” to quote from Politico? Probably not, replies the Weekly Standard’s Jay Cost. He lays out his arguments here. Cost’s...
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