Joshua Tucker

Couldn’t get enough of Super Tuesday? Well, imagine you could not only watch news reports roll in, but could also observe voters (and poll workers) around the country voting through live webcams in all polling stations. As I noted earlier this week, this was indeed the case in Russia’s presidential election on Sunday, where the […]

Displaying a predictive ability at a level of which my Americanist colleague can only dream, I think it is safe to say that most of the claims I made in my pre-election report on the 2012 Russian Presidential election have been substantiated: Vladimir Putin won. Multiple allegations have been raised that the election was neither […]

Given my research interests in Russian politics, I will offer my own pre-election report on the March 4, 2012 first round of the Russian presidential elections. I will, however, do so in the time-honored Monkey Cage fashion of a Q&A with myself. Readers should note that the dialogue (minus this introductory paragraph) originally appeared on […]

I am thrilled to see the number of posts that have been generated by my original question regarding whether or not Romney is likely to have a military problem (see here, here, and here on The Monkey Cage and here at The New Republic). I think this is one of the best features of the […]

It is not shaping up to be a great week for either Vladimir Putin or Mitt Romney. Putin had to deal with the spectrum of yet another mass protest against his rule – and in extremely adverse weather conditions, making the protest all the more impressive – and Romney faced the somewhat humiliating spectacle of […]

Reader Michael Moschella writes in with the following interesting observation in light of last night’s bad night for Mitt Romney: El Paso County is home to Colorado Springs and a top “military bastion” county in America. According to Wikipedia, El Paso County’s population surpassed Denver County in 2010, making it the most populous county in […]

With Herman Cain endorsing Newt Gingrich over the weekend, one can’t help but notice that one of these two had a sex scandal at least partially knock him out of the race, whereas the other one seems to have survived fairly widespread allegations of marital infidelity and kept on going. While there are of course […]

From cartoonist Ted McCagg: [Cross-posted at The Monkey Cage]

This YouTube video was posted on the Democratic Rapid Response YouTube channel. According to the information on the side of the post, the last activity on the channel was yesterday. As you’ll notice, there is actually plenty of footage from the debate itself. This means the video – which looks pretty good – must have […]

Meet the US’s new Ambassador to Russia (and political science’s own!) Michael McFaul: The response of the Russian authorities? Not nearly as welcoming… [Cross-posted at The Monkey Cage]