Some things I didn't have time to blog about yesterday...
+ Matt Yglesias has the cover story in this month's American Prospect, and its an absolute must-read. You want a primer on McCain's foreign policy history. This is it. McCain says he hates war, but as his nearly 3 decades of public service shows, he doesn't mind promoting it.
+ Pew just confirmed something that I've noticed on my own college campus these past few year: the next generation is very, very Democratic. In 2004 when I started at BU, Pew put the national gap at 11%. 51% of adults age 18-29 held a Democratic Party affiliation, and 40% held a Republican affiliation. Now, just 4 years later, that gap has spread to 25%! Marc Ambiner calls it a "generational time bomb," and he's right. It might be conventional wisdom that people get more conservative as they grow older, but decades worth of polisci research tells us that just ain't true. Rove promised us a realignment, but I really don't think this is what he had in mind!
+ McCain has announced the details of his oddly decentralized, yet nevertheless top down, regional campaign structure. There will be 11 separate regions with 11 separate managers. My prediction: this will be a disaster. Thanks to the Internet, multiple messages in multiple locations doesn't work anymore as a campaign strategy, and sooner rather than later this will lead to a PR crisis that pits managers against one another. Worse, the division of states doesn't make a lot of sense. Southern VA, for example has much more in common with NC than it does Maryland, but the entire state of Virginia is part of a region organized around Washington DC. And Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are split into three separate regions, which makes almost no sense to me. I'm telling you... a disaster.
+ McCain released his tax returns awhile back, but given that he's hid virtually all of his assets in his wife's accounts, they told us next to nothing about him. I'm not sure what's more shocking: that he tried to get away with this, or that so far the media has let him get away with this. More here.
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