Power Line Daily Digest Democrats: White Males Need Not Apply Democrats: White Males Need Not Apply 28 Days Later Hell to pay in Baltimore Notes on "Days of Rage" (1) Hillary Clinton, "Sid Vicious," and Libya Democrats: White Males Need Not Apply Posted:  20 May 2015 11:59 AM PDT (Steven Hayward) According to a story reported in the  New York Daily News  and other outlets, Hillary Clinton already has a list of prospective running mates, but there's only one name on it: A former top Clinton administration official predicted Sunday that Hillary Clinton will pick Julian Castro as her running mate if she wins the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. "What I am hearing in Washington, including from people in Hillary Clinton's campaign, is that the first person on their lists is Julian Castro, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who used to be the Mayor of San Antonio," Henry Cisneros, the Housing and Urban...

Power Line Daily Digest Samantha Power doubles down on Emma Sulkowicz's bogus rape claim The Republican Ascendancy, Quantified Samantha Power doubles down on Emma Sulkowicz's bogus rape claim The Crisis of the Administrative State, Part 5: Government as Faction There's something about Katy (and Lizzy) Mad Men signs off with class and aplomb The Republican Ascendancy, Quantified Posted: 19 May 2015 09:15 AM PDT (John Hinderaker) At  Real Clear Politics , Sean Trende and David Byler explicate their index of party strength. To compute their index, Trend and Byler calculate five components, which they weight equally:  Our index is the sum of five parts: presidential performance, House performance, Senate performance, gubernatorial performance and state legislative performance. The first is measured by the party's performance in the previous presidential popular vote (NB: In this, and all other measurements, third parties are excluded).  House pe...