Hello everyone!
My good friend Scott Resnick just invited me to contribute to the CollegeDems blog. I'm more than happy to start doing so. I began a blog this summer, called Beyond the Madison Bubble, which took off for a good three days and was then abandoned by me. I guess there just weren't enough readers and not enough time to establish a reading base. Oh well. Happy to be here.
My political biography in a nutshell: Basically, I'm a moderate Democrat in the Joe Lieberman tradition. I don't have a socialist bone in my body, and I think that understating the threat of terrorism is foolish. But I am sure that global warming is a serious problem (I went carbon-neutral recently), I support gay marriage, I think we should be out of Iraq within two years, and I think we ignore the United Nations at our peril. I supported Dean in the '04 primaries after Lieberman's campaign began going nowhere fast, then spent summer 2004 campaigning for Kerry in Waukesha and getting the door slammed in my face. I decided to vote for Joe Biden about two years ago, and no developments in the interim have changed my mind there.
I'm a Democrat, but I occasionally call myself a vigorous independent, and my political beliefs are secondary to my interest in the dynamics of political debate. I guess I'm more of an intellectual than an activist (I'm a PoliSci major, and the pretension comes with the territory) -- but that doesn't change my belief in the necessity of activists. Am I a "Madison liberal," then? Probably not by a comprehensive definition, but I'm close enough.
I also have a huge interest, as a student of American politics, in predicting the results of American presidential primaries. That said, I am sure that Mike Huckabee will be the Republican nominee this year (and was sure more than a month ago, as Scott will attest to), and that Hillary Clinton is unstoppable from any angle. I am unable to guess which of those two candidates would win in a general election campaign, but we should all be watching out for Huckabee.
I could go on and on, but I guess I've introduced myself adequately.
Peace,
Eric Schmidt
My good friend Scott Resnick just invited me to contribute to the CollegeDems blog. I'm more than happy to start doing so. I began a blog this summer, called Beyond the Madison Bubble, which took off for a good three days and was then abandoned by me. I guess there just weren't enough readers and not enough time to establish a reading base. Oh well. Happy to be here.
My political biography in a nutshell: Basically, I'm a moderate Democrat in the Joe Lieberman tradition. I don't have a socialist bone in my body, and I think that understating the threat of terrorism is foolish. But I am sure that global warming is a serious problem (I went carbon-neutral recently), I support gay marriage, I think we should be out of Iraq within two years, and I think we ignore the United Nations at our peril. I supported Dean in the '04 primaries after Lieberman's campaign began going nowhere fast, then spent summer 2004 campaigning for Kerry in Waukesha and getting the door slammed in my face. I decided to vote for Joe Biden about two years ago, and no developments in the interim have changed my mind there.
I'm a Democrat, but I occasionally call myself a vigorous independent, and my political beliefs are secondary to my interest in the dynamics of political debate. I guess I'm more of an intellectual than an activist (I'm a PoliSci major, and the pretension comes with the territory) -- but that doesn't change my belief in the necessity of activists. Am I a "Madison liberal," then? Probably not by a comprehensive definition, but I'm close enough.
I also have a huge interest, as a student of American politics, in predicting the results of American presidential primaries. That said, I am sure that Mike Huckabee will be the Republican nominee this year (and was sure more than a month ago, as Scott will attest to), and that Hillary Clinton is unstoppable from any angle. I am unable to guess which of those two candidates would win in a general election campaign, but we should all be watching out for Huckabee.
I could go on and on, but I guess I've introduced myself adequately.
Peace,
Eric Schmidt
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