…Walker up five points, the new poll, along with the polling average, shows this is very much a race. — Paul Waldman, the Washington Post, this evening Ooookay. I’ll just…

…—- ADDENDUM: Don’t miss this terrific piece by Adele Stan on the American Prospect website. (H/T Paul Waldman.) Although she doesn’t mention Rubio’s age, so maybe it’s not such a…

…published early this morning but I just learned of it (h/t Paul Waldman). But it makes the same key point that I do in mine. Which is that Sanders supporters…

…learned of it (h/t Paul Waldman). But it makes the same key point that I do in mine. Which is that Sanders supporters will know that their vote for Clinton…

Via (one of) the brillian Waldmans I find a very interesting and actually somewhat reassuring article by Caitlin Owens “Obamacare repeal? More like Obamacare reform”. I strongly recommend reading the…

…notice that we’re in for some serious fascist tactics in the next four years, and they need to try to undermine the success of those tactics. *H/T Paul Waldman ____…

To add to Robert Waldman’s post on ACA enrollment, here is the chart as taken from Andrew Sprung’s Blog (Expostfactoid) on the ACA. This is data Charles Gaba had gathered…

Origin of the 2 Percent Inflation Target I have made most of these comments as comments on Econbrowser and Angry Bear (an excellent post by Robert Waldman), as well as…

The HuffPo has reported on a minor dust-up between Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the politics of Medicare for All (see here, here, here, also Paul Waldman here).  The…

Paul Waldman asks the question I’ve been worrying about for a few weeks: Do Republicans even want to help the American economy through this crisis? . . . But McConnell…