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Who Won the War on Women?
…If it hadn’t been for those antediluvian attacks on contraception, we’d be calling this the Year of the Woman. If there was a war on women this year, it looks like the women are winning.
Margaret Talbot on the female candidates in yesterday’s Senate races, and the “war on women” narrative in this election cycle: http://nyr.kr/RfWGw4
Photograph by Josh Reynolds/AP.
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The Bill and Henry James Election
Adam Gopnik on the problem of chance in baseball playoffs and elections, and how we will look back upon the next three weeks in the future:
What is true of sports narratives is yet truer, and yet still less accepted, of elections. The Bill James revolution has come to politics and polling now …but not, one might say, the Henry James revolution that ought to go with it, where we stand in awe of how chance events can seem in retrospect like fated certainties…
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OBAMA-ROMNEY, GAME TWO: GOOD FIELD, NO HIT
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After Wednesday night’s debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama, there is, at least for now, some consensus in the political world. Each candidate surprised commentators: Romney performed shockingly well, while many observers were left shaking their heads in disbelief at all the things Obama didn’t say. On this week’s Political Scene podcast, John Cassidy and Hendrik Hertzberg join host Dorothy Wickenden to evaluate the debate and its effect on the state of the race. Listen to the podcast, and click-through for more on the debate.
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Sting Like a Butterfly?
David Remnick on last night’s debate, and why the Muhammad Ali “rope-a-dope” comparison doesn’t work: http://nyr.kr/SFtA6q
Photograph: AP.
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"The only fireworks came at the very beginning of the debate, when Mr. Obama congratulated his wife, Michelle, on their twentieth wedding anniversary, drawing this response from Mr. Romney: “I disagree with your decision to marry Michelle. On Day One, I’ll reverse it."
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Debate Could Test Two Romney Weaknesses, Talking and Thinking→
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—With the first Presidential debate just two days away, G.O.P. nominee Mitt Romney has been working intensively on two skills that have eluded him throughout the campaign: talking and thinking. Continue reading.
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"You might have thought that with the Arctic melting, the U.S. in the midst of what will almost certainly be the warmest year on record, and more than sixty per cent of the lower forty-eight states experiencing ‘moderate to exceptional’ drought, at least one of the candidates would feel compelled to speak out about the issue."
— In today’s Daily Comment, Elizabeth Kolbert asks, “Why aren’t the Presidential candidates speaking out on global warming?” http://nyr.kr/QjBKBS -
Poll: Romney Ahead in Presidential Race, Say Replacement Refs →
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—G.O.P. Presidential nominee Mitt Romney finally got some good news today as he found himself ahead of President Obama in a poll of N.F.L. replacement referees. Read more.
