Enik Rising

(Reposted from Mischiefs of Faction ) Want a reason to celebrate this Independence Day? Try this: elections. Yes, elections can be annoyi...

I was pleased to see how much coverage the paper on the health reform vote I did with Brendan Nyhan, Eric McGhee, John Sides, and Steve Gre...

Anyone else noticing some similarities between the recent Rush Limbaugh attack on Sandra Fluke and the arrest of Martin Luther King, Jr., in...

On Monday, Dave Gilson produced this wonderful graph of spending by presidential candidates since 1860, in constant 2011 dollars. It sugges...

Just when you thought it was safe to analyze elections, David Wasserman drags us back to the politico-cultural waters David Brooks sailed y...

I must admit I was not aware of General Order 11 , which General Ulysses Grant issued in 1862: The Jews, as a class violating every regula...

Drew Westen is once again filling valuable column inches in the New York Times with cheap pop-psychological claims about parties and polit...

Saying that an upcoming presidential election is the most important election in a generation is a classic hack trope. That said, the upcomin...

Scene: Third presidential debate, October 2012. In the most recent tracking polls, Obama leads the Republican nominee by only two points. ...

John Sides looks at recent economic growth numbers and polling trends and concludes that "Barack Obama is on the cusp of becoming the ...

Rhodes Cook says that Obama's in relatively good shape for reelection because he's not facing a challenge from within the Democrati...

Shira Schoenberg : During his presidential campaign, [George H.W.] Bush signed Norquist’s pledge not to raise taxes. The candidate then mad...

Carlisle Rainey , a poli sci and statistics graduate student at Florida State, has written a response to my earlier post in which I argued...

The runoff contest in the Denver mayoral race is between two mainstream Democrats, each with an impressive array of endorsers, substantial f...

History seems to be repeating itself. In 2008, Democrats were elected by wide margins nationally after running on a platform emphasizing hea...

I saw the above magazine on a coffee table in the historic Byers-Evans House in Denver yesterday. I thought it kind of interesting that th...

Steve Greene and I have been working on our analysis of the effect of roll call votes on the electoral fortunes of Democratic House incumbe...

Please forgive the shameless plug, but if you're teaching about the 2010 elections this spring, or if you'd just like to know more a...

This report by the Denver Post suggests some impropriety at the Adams County Assessor's office, noting that some of Assessor Gil Reyes...