Blue America and the Changing Electorate
openleft.com 11/12/2008 — This has been a good election for map lovers.  The New York Times has a great set of graphics that shows not only results but changes from the previous four elections. I've put together a few cartograms and gone back to the 1988 election to see ...

Signs It's Over
blogs.tnr.com 10/28/2008 — Obama draws 100,000 in Denver. Chuck Todd moves McCain's home state from solid McCain to lean McCain after a poll shows just a four-point margin there. Bill Kristol proposes an incredibly halfhearted and unpersuasive comeback strategy. -- ...

What to Do Now with Your McCain-Palin Signs
corner.nationalreview.com 11/6/2008 — I've got this out front of my house this morning:

And Here's What to Do with Your Obama-Biden Signs
corner.nationalreview.com 11/5/2008 — Also out front of my house this morning:

Media Bias and an Uninformed Electorate: How Obama Got Elected
wizbangblog.com 11/19/2008 — This video confirmed for me what I already knew: the media, in the tank for Obama, helped give him the presidency by refusing to report anything negative about him while...

The New Electorate: What's In Store For Bluer America
tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2008: 11/6/2008 — Now that Barack Obama and the Democrats will be in control, the party plans to pursue an aggressive agenda. See what's in store for the Democratic Congress and read below for more info and a slideshow on Obama's potential administration: Flush with victory built on incursions in the South ...

We're One Day Away from Changing America
corner.nationalreview.com 11/3/2008 — Obama said that a few ago in Florida. Am I the only one who doesn't want to change America in any fundamental way? Does that make me crazy? And alone?

Multiple Choice for the Day
commentarymagazine.com 10/20/2008 — Is Obama’s “spread the wealth around” remark to Joe the Plumber the 2008 version of: a) “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe”? b) “I had a discussion with my daughter, Amy, the other day, before I came ...

National Journal Magazine - The Hidden History Of The American Electorate
nationaljournal.com 10/17/2008 — Exit-Poll Analysis • Hispanic Voters • Independent Voters National Journal has taken an unusually detailed look at the American electorate over the past 20 years. The project examines the results since 1988 from the general election presidential exit ...

Hopeful signs on health care
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 11/12/2008 — This is very big news. One of the key questions about the new Democratic majority was whether Congress would try to play it safe, backing down on big ideas about reform, especially on health care. You can view the whole chorus about how we're still a ...

The agenda: First 1,000 days? — First Read 11/6/2008
The New York Times writes, “Mr. Obama’s advisers said they were startled, if gratified, by the jubilation that greeted the news of Mr. Obama’s victory in much of the United States and abroad. But while the energy of his supporters could be a ...

Bush: Economic challenges await new president — Reuters: Politics 11/6/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Thursday the United States faces economic challenges that "will not pause" to let a new president settle into the job, as he promised to work for an orderly transfer of power to Democrat Barack ...

Obama Voters Favor Compromise on Offshore Drilling, Poll Finds — Wash Post Elections 11/7/2008
Will the election of Barack Obama increase the chances that Democrats in Congress will reimpose a moratorium on oil exploration off most of the nation's shorelines?

Obama Gets First In-Depth Intelligence Briefing — Wash Post Elections 11/7/2008
For nearly an hour yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama met with two of the country's top intelligence officers for an important rite of passage: his first full-blown classified briefing on national security.

Obama's Hurdles Down the Track — Wash Post Elections 11/7/2008
Now comes the hard part. Come January, President Obama will inherit the weakest U.S. economy in 25 years, with output shrinking, unemployment rising, the federal deficit out of control and a financial system on government life-support. The new ...