David Frum's Blog, page 148

Republicans Blow Another Chance to Retake the Senate

With Richard Mourdock being declared the loser in the Indiana Senate race (and Todd Akin hanging on the edge), I'd like to repost my National Post column on the GOP's own worst enemy: the Tea Party.

Michigan Voters Ignore the Billionaire's Tea Party

As I write, it appears Michigan voters have voted against Proposal 6, the constitional amendment specifically intended to block a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. Here's what I wrote on the proposal back in October.

Election Night Open Thread

David will be answering questions (from Facebook) over the course of the evening. We'll try to get each of them responded to as quickly as possible.

How You Know You're Going to Lose

Via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:

Why I'm for Mitt

The next president, be it a reelected Barack Obama or a newly elected Mitt Romney, will face a Republican House and a Democratic Senate. And unless Dean Chambers and his loony bin crew over at UnskewedPolls.com are correct, the odds of the new president being anyone but Barack Obama are fading by the day.

Proust: The Captive

The Captive is the most disturbing of all the volumes in Remembrance of Things Past. It weirded me out when I first read it as a teenager, and it weirds me out even more now.

Bring Back the Mugwumps

Tim Graham of the Media Research Council calls me a "mugwump" for stating that I'd join a vote for Romney to a vote against George Allen, Richard Mourdock, or Todd Akin if I lived in the relevant states.

Poland Faces Its Past

The Polish play, Our Class played in Washington this past month. Our Class examines the massacre of the Jewish population of the town of Jedwabne in 1941. The Nazi mass murder had begun, but these 340 or more Polish Jews were killed not by German occupiers, but by their Polish neighbors. It's a disgraceful episode that Poles have only recently begun to accept and discuss. In Warsaw, the play has run for three years. And here in Washington …

The Tea Party: the GOP's Own Worst Enemy

My National Post column describes why the Tea Party has caused Republicans to lose elections that seemed well within their grasp.

What Would Change My Mind on Romney?

To the question that dominates the comments sections I've seen of late: "Is there anything that would make you switch your vote?"