While the big discussion in Washington (other than the snow) lately seems to have been the atavistic Tea Party Convention and the various fantasies of the American that were put on display within (I won’t link to anything since, remember, I’m no longer reading about US politics), the debate about national identity in France, an [...]

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m on November 6th, 2008

Well, it turns out that my concerns about the turnout in my previous post are now totally wrong. Nate shows today that Obama beat Kerry in pretty much every demographic, and in some he beat him by double digits. Considering that more people voted, period, than in 2004, it follows that more of each demographic [...]

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