Monthly Archives: November 2010

Maine’s Remaining Swing Towns

One of the criticisms of my previous article on swing towns in Maine was that demographic changes which coincided with increasingly more liberal voting for Governor were responsible for many of the town’s appearance on my list. By that logic – which, incidentally I both recognize and agree with – some towns were given the […]

Why Did Media Matters Go On A Jihad Against Dean Scontras?

Gerald at Dirigo Blue made an amusing observation about how the “right wing echo chamber” operates on October 20th. His observations were somewhat true – there is no denying that once a story gets “out there”, people on the right take those stories, shop them around to the big opinion leaders online and in print, […]