Alan Greenblatt

Recent Articles

• The United Not-States
• Oct 26, 2009
• There's been a debate of sorts in recent days in the liberal blogosphere on the question of whether states should be eliminated. Matthew Yglesias, ...
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• Bai's Take
• Oct 23, 2009
• Matt Bai has a very long and Corzine-centric but worthwhile account of the New Jersey governor's race in the New York Times magazine. Neighboring ...

• Will Republicans Squander a House Seat?
• Oct 23, 2009
• Along with the races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, the marquee race in the country is next month's special election for a ...
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• White House Sticks a Fork in Deeds
• Oct 23, 2009
• President Obama will campaign for Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia, next week. But sensing his likely defeat, the White House is ...

• Could Chris Daggett Win?
• Oct 22, 2009
• The latest poll in the New Jersey governor's race, this one from Eagleton-Rutgers, shows Jon Corzine, the Democratic incumbent, opening up a three-point lead ...

• Why Deeds Is Losing
• Oct 20, 2009
• Creigh Deeds, the Virginia state senator who is the Democratic candidate for governor in next month's election, has never gotten his act together. He ...

• Dayton Foreclosure Update
• Oct 20, 2009
• I wrote a cover story early last year on foreclosures, looking at Dayton, Ohio, to give a sense of what the effects were like in ...

• Suburban Diversity
• Oct 19, 2009
• The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University on Long Island will be hosting a big academic conference later this week on the increasing ...
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• New Jersey: Not Loving the Choices
• Oct 16, 2009
• Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican Chris Christie take turns holding slim leads in the latest polls in the New Jersey governor's race. According to ...

• In the End, It Wasn't Close
• Oct 16, 2009
• As expected, A C Wharton Jr. was elected mayor of Memphis yesterday in a special election. Wharton had led all comers in polls but won ...

• Branstad Getting Ready
• Oct 15, 2009
• Terry Branstad, a former four-term governor of Iowa, has been a little bit coy about plans to run again. But it looks like he's ...

• Peterson Opens Campaign
• Oct 15, 2009
• Bill Peterson, a former majority leader in the South Dakota House, has formally launched his bid for Sioux Falls mayor. Peterson is the first to ...

• Republican Momentum
• Oct 14, 2009
• It seems more than likely that Republicans will do better in next year's elections than they did in 2006 and 2008. And, while I'm deeply ...

• Hyperlocal New Jersey
• Oct 14, 2009
• If you're following the news about the news, you've probably heard that many media companies are hoping to find successful niches in so-called ...

• Postcard From New Mexico
• Oct 14, 2009
• I spent several days in New Mexico last week, speaking at the Council of State Governments' western regional meeting and enjoying much of the stunning ...