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A debate is raging about whether the financial collapse (beginning with the fall of Lehman brothers) killed McCain’s election chances. Many conservatives are arguing that, given circumstances beyond his control, McCain’s defeat was inevitable. Andrew Sullivan and others have pointed out that McCain’s polls started slipping before that, around the time of the Sarah Palin…

Listening to the coverage one would have the sense that a key part of Obama’s victory was a flood of new young people coming to the polls for the first time. Not so. Percentage of the electorate in 2004 ages 18-29: 17% Percentage in 2008: 18% By contrast, the portion of the electorate comprised of…

We numbers junkies thank Laurie Goodstein at the New York Times for doing a special slice-and-dice on the exit polls that gives us this fascinating nugget: Obama doubled his support among evangelicals (Obamagelicals, as we like to call them) ages 18-29 (getting 32% compared to 16% in 2004). What the Times didn’t mention is that…

Well that didn’t take long. Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun and founder of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, has the honor of being the first member of the “religious left” to lambast the new President. Lerner is outraged at the selection of Rahm Emanuel, whom he says has a “long history of militarist ideology.”…
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