Ready For An Election Year–and the Fallout

by Ed Kilgore
Politics

The legacy of the first session of the 113d Congress is sufficiently bad to make this Political Animal eager to cover campaigns rather than feckless policymaking. But the thing about PA is that even in our horse-raciest mode (which I perfected in my days of writing for Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight), we don’t forget policy or ideology or the real-life aspects and consequences of elections. So this is a good, morally safe place to follow pure politics, if that’s possible. You can help preserve this election year fallout shelter with a tax-deductible donation today.

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Ed Kilgore

Ed Kilgore, a Monthly contributing editor, is a columnist for the Daily Intelligencer, New York magazine’s politics blog, and the managing editor for the Democratic Strategist.