MORE SCHALLER

If you missed it, take a look at Tom Schaller on C-Span's Washington Journal from Saturday (here), defending his argument that the Democrats should forget about the south and concentrate on the "new swing region" of the southwest. I would be most persuaded of the wisdom of this strategy if the Democratic nominee didn't make an official, public announcement that he was, in fact, writing off the south as unwinnable (not that anyone is counseling the Dem candidate to do that, and not that they would). Take a look also at Ruy Teixeira and Cliff Schechter's argument that a "non-southern strategy" is almost assured because of basic "electoral arithmetic."