I’m up today at U.S. News with an analysis of Republican Senator Jim Jeffords’ decision in 2001 to declare as an independent and caucus with the Democrats. As I noted in yesterday’s post, his political career was largely defined by this decision which threw control of the Senate to the Democratic Party for the next […]…Continue Reading Small States, Malapportionment and Electoral Independence
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Why I Love Politics: Jeffords, Perry and Zakaria
This Sunday’s Shorts: Somewhat surprisingly, I’ve received more email and twitter responses regarding my posts about allegations that Fareed Zakaria is guilty of plagiarism than I have about any of my Michael Brown-related posts. The OurBadMedia website that published the original accusations against Zakaria has now posted a second set allegedly “showing how Zakaria blatantly […]…Continue Reading Why I Love Politics: Jeffords, Perry and Zakaria