New Orleans About the best thing that Democrats can say these days is that November is still seven months away and that anything can happen in politics in that time. True that, but otherwise for Democrats facing the mid-term elections, if it weren’t for bad news, they wouldn’t have any news at all. Master …
Category: Voting Rights
Middle-Class Movement Meets Political Machines in Indian Election Run-up
Bengaluru In the one and one-half years since I last visited Bengaluru, or Bangalore as it is still known in the West, the changes were visible from the time I hit the expressway. The new airport, 40 kilometers from the city center is no longer as new, but for the first time the ride was …
Political Ground Game in Ascendancy as Simple Math Triumphs with Big Data
New Orleans What goes around, comes around, it seems, if you keep around long enough. Reading about cutting edge political strategies, like the “Bannock Street project,” reminds me of frequent late discussions at the regular Wednesday night staff meetings of ACORN in Little Rock 40 years ago as we would debate whether to spend all of …