Ezra Klein Archive: 2010 Midterms
Will symbolism be enough for the tea parties?
Kevin Drum is puzzled by the way Speaker John Boehner is handling the effort to repeal health-care reform. "He's scheduling a quick vote with no hearings and no CBO scoring just so he can say he's done it, after which...
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| January 6, 2011; 9:55 AM ET |
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2010 Midterms, House
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A very smart speech by Speaker Boehner
If you spent the afternoon watching C-SPAN, as I did, you heard applause. A lot of it. Over and over again. And when John Boehner took the podium to be sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives,...
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| January 5, 2011; 3:02 PM ET |
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What was incumbency worth in 2010?
Apparently five percentage points, which is a lot lower than it's been in the past: Steve Ansolabehere and Jim Snyder estimate the incumbency advantage in the past set of House elections to be 5 percentage points. They estimated these the...
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| January 4, 2011; 9:00 AM ET |
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Why does D.C. care so much more about Pelosi than about Reid?
For all the hubbub over the decision House Democrats made to keep Nancy Pelosi, there's been almost nothing said on the decision Senate Democrats made to keep Harry Reid. But what's the difference? Pelosi might be a bit more...
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| November 19, 2010; 5:20 PM ET |
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Why wait to seat the new Congress?
I quoted it in this morning's Wonkbook, but Bruce Ackerman's op-ed calling for legislation to abolish the lame-duck session of Congress seems a little funny to me. It would make a lot more sense to just inaugurate members of Congress...
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Dylan Matthews
| November 12, 2010; 3:28 PM ET |
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2010 Midterms, Congress, Government
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How Joe Lieberman helped the Democrats lose the election
Since the election, there's been a lot of talk about what President Obama and the Democratic leadership could've done differently. I offered six ideas here. But there's been rather less discussion of what individual legislators could've done differently. Consider, for...
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| November 11, 2010; 1:30 PM ET |
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2010 Midterms, Health Reform
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