SCOTUS Denial of ObamaCare Review Tells Us Little

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  April 25th at 05:33 PM  | 

From the diaries by Erick A number of people have asked me whether today’s rejection of Virginia’s request for expedited Supreme Court review of its ObamaCare challenge tells us anything about how the Court will ultimately rule on the statute’s constitutionality.  The answer is no. It is folly to draw any conclusions because it’s extremely unusual for the Supreme Court to grant certiorari – that | Read More »

The short-lived Obama realignment

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  November 4th at 11:59 PM  | 

In April I blogged about Larry Sabato’s statement that, in the wake of the much-vaunted 2008 Obama realignment, “we’re on our way from being a two-party system to being a party-and-a-half system. And the Republicans are the half a party.”  Sabato was all over the tube last night and today, but I didn’t hear any mea culpas from him about what now seems like a | Read More »