Political Shifts

The long run of ever increasing partisanship in the country is reflected by how the different groups identify themselves. Democrats, who have prided themselves on their ‘big tent’ philosophy, are becoming more liberal. The number of independents has grown and and is becoming more conservative and the Republicans have fewer moderates and more conservatives. It [...]

The debates

Well, I watched the marathon debates on ABC starting with the Republican debate and through the Democrat debate. Let me state up front that I’m originally from Massachusetts (born in Boston) and therefore genetically a democrat. (Just kidding, of course, Mass. has had its share of Republican luminaries, Ed Brooke, Ed King, and more recently [...]