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I know you’ve all been waiting for me to explain why I get to drive around for the next two years with a “Don’t Blame Me I’m From Connecticut” bumper sticker. Here goes. The citizens who showed up at polls in the Nutmeg State last Tuesday were somewhat older, whiter, richer, and more college-educated than…

The most celebrated losers on the Republican side this election year were Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell, who in any previous cycle since 1980 would have been identified as paladins (paladines?) of the religious right. Angle is a Southern Baptist who ran a Christian school and was endorsed by the likes of Pat Boone and…

OK, the aggregate House of Representatives exit poll shows that the good old God Gap is as wide as ever. Pew tells the story: In the great bathtub of voter behavior, everyone sloshed back towards the Republicans. That’s to say, from the white evangelicals to the nones, the GOP posted gains. Over at Huffpost, Eric…

* Among Delaware’s white college graduates, Christine O’Donnell loses by just three percentage points. * Among New York’s white males, Andrew Cuomo wins by just two percentage points. * In Pennsylvania, Sestak and Toomey split the Catholic vote. * In Kentucky, white evangelicals go for the Aqua-Buddhist by better than two to one. * In…
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