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Category Archives: Presidential Politics

New Hampshire speaks

…and now everyone can argue about what they said. I think it’s fair to say that reactions to yesterday’s vote are all over the map, often depending on the spin one wants to put on things. Trump won, though I understand that in terms of delegates to the convention, he came away with a small […]

What is a centrist?

This article over at Hullabaloo got me thinking about the term “centrist” as it is used in the media. The article is about Joe Lieberman’s “No Labels” group, which is in the process of trying to put together a presidential ticket in 2024. A funny thing about centrists is that they never tell you what […]

A look ahead

Back in 2012, when the latest Republican Establishment candidate lost the popular vote and the Electoral College (Republicans don’t ever win the popular vote anymore; they rely on our archaic constitutional provisions to impose their candidates on an unwilling electorate) I predicted that for the next election, the Republican base would demand that the party […]

Senatorial Follies

The New York Times and others have reported that ten Senators have joined Hawley in pledging to vote to steal the election for Trump. The eleven are a mix of Senators with presidential ambitions and newly elected freshmen Senators. Let’s put the freshmen aside for the moment,and concentrate on the presidential aspirants. The question that […]

Which is it? Stupidity or criminal arrogance.?

Stories like this merely make me curl further into a fetal position as November 3rd approaches. Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser of President Donald Trump, privately bragged to journalist Bob Woodward in April about the president’s decision to shun the advice and opinions of health experts, just as the death rate from the […]

We’ve seen this before

Apparently there is a survey our there making the case that Trump is behind in the polls because his supporters are ever so shy about disclosing their preferences to telephone pollsters. I think it is well debunked at the linked article, but I think it should also be pointed out that this may be one […]

Sounds familiar

Yet another sign of hope, assuming of course that they can’t steal the election: Brian Kilmeade gave hope to worried Trump supporters. “But of people who believe that Donald Trump will be successful they talk about a secret vote, the underground vote because if you wear are a red hat or bumper sticker on your […]

Am I missing something?

This has me wondering: Washington Post reporter Robert Costa says that things are so bad for Trump’s reelection hopes, they’re hoping Clarence Thomas resigns and gives them a Supreme Court nomination to run on. Joe Scarborough was discussing just how dire things look for the Trump team, especially with the Supreme Court. “Well, to that […]

Trump’s people issue a challenge

I haven’t seen reference to this anywhere else, but as I’ve written before, though I won’t bank on the conclusions the Palmer Report draws from the facts, it usually presents actual facts: So now the Trump campaign is trying the bizarre desperate last ditch move of demanding that Joe Biden agree to more than the […]

It’s not easy to fall in love

Linda Ronstadt was wrong, it’s not easy to fall in love. At least not when the person you have to fall in love with is Joe Biden. This is a fate I predicted would befall me, but still it is hard work (I just hope the rest of the predictions-for this year anyway-pan out) . The […]