Comment: Poor, White, and Republican : The New Yorker

F.D.R. called him “the forgotten man,” but that was long ago. By 1972, he was a member of the silent majority and had become a Democrat for Nixon (he wore a hard hat with an American-flag sticker). 1980 produced the Reagan Democrat (this time he came from Macomb County, Michigan, and was discovered by the pollster Stan Greenberg). By 1994 he had curdled into the …

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Conservative Religious Leaders, Seeking Unity, Vote to Back Rick Santorum – NYTimes.com

Evangelical leaders pursued a last-ditch effort on Saturday to exert influence in the Republican presidential primary race, voting to support the candidacy of Rick Santorum in hopes of undercutting

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The tea-party movement: Waiting for Captain America | The Economist

DAVID WEIGEL, Slate’s roving political reporter, looks at the Iowa caucus entrance polls and draws three lessons from Tuesday night’s results. I agree with each of Mr Weigel’s lessons, but I’d like to reflect on …

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