This is how I see the outcome. Ohio will be close but ultimately will go to Trump. Florida, from what I’m hearing from Miami and Pinellas, will not be close. Texas will also be close, but given that the courts are refusing to disenfranchise the Houston drive-through voters, I believe...
Count every vote. #CountEveryVote x Remember that America is a democracy. Every vote deserves to be counted, no matter what Trump and Republicans say https://t.co/HcHI6D5t0N— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) November 3, 2020 x #BREAK Election eve and Twitter has labeled a Trump tweet as misleading. Removed ability for tweet to be retweeted....
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/… The NYT/Siena Poll, rated A+ by 538, has Joe Biden with a 48% to 40% lead in Michigan and a 51% to 41% lead in Wisconsin. The polls are of likely voters and were taken October 8-11. New polls show Biden is gaining in the Northern battlegrounds among white...
Early voting has started, and Democrats are doing well: Politico: Democrats build big edge in early voting The Democratic dominance spreads across an array of battleground states, according to absentee ballot request data compiled by state election authorities and analyzed by Democratic and Republican data experts. In North Carolina and...
I have lived a lot of years, and I have seen a lot of injustices. The “talk” that has been so widely spoken about in the media and by black mothers and fathers is a real thing. There was a time, when it was a mitigating factor but never eliminated...
Remember when the Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party was the darling of conservatives. They elevated the profiles of people like Michele Bachmann, Sharron Angle, and Scott Brown. The group of so-called grassroots activists was in reality bankrolled by a group called FreedomWorks and given free media access by Fox News....
The Republican Party is falsely worshiping at the Yeezy clad feet of new ecclesiastic fundamentalism, all hail Kanye West. Mr. West is the subject of daily jokes and has become a virtual walking meme on every social media platform in the world. The GOP has launched an insulting and racist...
On November 4, 2008, Barack H. Obama, was elected the 44th President of the United States, needless to say, he was the first black man or woman to hold that distinction. On November 5, 2008, The View’s co-host Whoopi Goldberg told America, “ I could put my suitcase down, finally.”...
I was running down my usual checklist of reminders as to why I cannot vote for a Republican and the list grows daily. Bill Barr destroying the Department of Justice by subverting the rule of law, Mike Pompeo turning State Department employees into gophers and insisting on the firing of...
From the book The Man Who Knew Too Much, there is a quote that reads “I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything,” –G.K. Chesterton The Party that detests the government seems obsessed with getting in office and breaking it...
A trio of polls in three critical races has good news for Democrats who need to win three or four Republican held seats this November to win control of the US Senate. ohpredictive.com/… A poll by OH Predictive Insights for Arizona shows Democratic candidate Mark Kelly is leading appointed Senator...
There have been diaries and comments posted here in the past few weeks about IMPOTUS using emergency powers to postpone or even cancel the November election. He does not have that power. Here is an article from this morning’s NYT: Could the 2020 Election Be Postponed? Only With Great Difficulty....
I stumbled to my bed in the early morning hours of December 24th last year, short of breath, heart pounding, and fearing I was having a heart attack. As incredulous as it might sound one of the first things that crossed my mind was the 75 dollar fee for calling...
For you baseball fans out there, the managerial strategy is, get ‘em on, get ‘em over, and get ‘em home. Last evening, despite a billionaire throwing spitballs, Joe Biden hit a triple. With a short supply of money, zero campaigning in Minnesota and counted out in California and Texas, Joe...
Still early days, even as there will be a pie-fight at the debate tonight. Clarity will arrive on super-Tuesday. The real question will occur when we see whether there are limits to various facts such as who are the real ‘base’ for each primary candidate. One example would be whether Sanders...
Last year, the state of Virginia culminated its transformation from one of the most Republican states to electing a Democratic controlled legislature for the first time in a generation. What will be the next state to transform from a dependable Republican to swing state or better, maybe the Grand Canyon State? Reviewing the...
http://www.foxnews.com/… Fox News Poll finds that 50% of registered voters want the Senate to remove Donald Trump from office and 44% want him to remain. On impeachment, by a 50-44 percent margin, voters think the Senate should vote to convict Trump and remove him from office. Most Democrats say remove...
http://www.people-press.org/… http://www.cnn.com/… Pew Research is the second poll this week showing that 51% of Americans want Donald Trump convicted and removed from office. This poll says 46% wants him to remain President. CNN’s poll from a couple of days ago found that by 51% to 45% a small majority of...
http://www.msn.com/… Oklahoma Attorney General Michael Rogers has notified Governor Kevin Stitt that an initiative to expand Medicaid has qualified to be placed on the ballot this year. More than enough valid signatures were collected in the fall to require a vote which will be known as State Question 802. Stitt,...
cookpolitical.com/… With Secretary of State and former Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo declining to run for the Kansas Senate seat being vacated by Pat Roberts, Democrats may have their best chance to win in the Sunflower state since 1932. Cook’s Political Report has accordingly moved the race from likely Republican to lean...
Freedom Caucus leader and major Trump fan Mark Meadows of North Carolina’s CD-11 announced he is leaving Congress possibly to join the Trump Administration. time.com/… “My work with President Trump and his administration is only beginning. This President has accomplished incredible results for the country in just three years, and...
http://www.cnbc.com/… A just released NBC/WSJ poll says Americans split evenly 48% to 48% on the removal of Donald Trump from office. While this is a slight improvement for Trump, there is recognition that the President has acted improperly. Just 25% say Trump did nothing wrong on Ukraine. And though only 10%...
There is an old saying about politicians. “If you can’t take someone’s money, screw their women, and drink their whiskey and still vote against them, you should not be in politics.” Too bad the first part of that saying is not true. Seems that several Republican Senators who took political contributions...
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham may soon learn that his plan to convert himself into Trump’s bootlicker wasn’t such a hot idea after all. Although Graham is still currently the favorite to win in this safe Trump state, he is trending downward after several major embarrassments, with a historically low approval rating...
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/… A survey released today by Public Policy Polling finds Donald Trump performing poorly against a generic Democrat and that Mike Pence, should he be the Republican candidate, would also lose. PPP’s new national poll, conducted on behalf of EDF Action, finds that Donald Trump has a 40/55 approval spread...
Republican Bill Flores of Texas 17th Congressional district is the latest to announce he will not seek re-election in 2020. His central Texas district includes Waco and College Station as well as a small sliver of Austin. flores.house.gov/… “Following the end of my current term in January 2021, I look...
http://www.surveyusa.com/… A Survey USA Presidential poll taken in North Carolina from August 1 to August 5 shows Donald Trump losing to Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Other major Democratic candidates are within one or two percent of Trump. Democrats Trump Margin Survey USA Poll of North Carolina 8/1 to 8/5...
http://www.uttyler.edu/… Two Presidential polls for Texas show the Democratic candidates doing rather well in the Lone Star state against Donald Trump who won there by 9 points in 2016. They both show Sanders and Biden leading Trump by small amounts. The polls disagree somewhat on how well Beto O’Rourke is...
Many, many years ago, all the way back on November 10th, 2016 ore so, Mitch McConnell was one chipper turtle, he was living high on the hog. That’s because the hog had just gotten elected President, but hadn’t actually taken the oath of office yet, so he wasn’t actively screwing...
My, my, my. What a mess. Tommy Lee Jones The Fugitive Things like this pop up in politics occasionally, although not all that often. Shit happens, or as a coworker of mine at United used to say “Ka-ka occurs.” Although, like so many things Trumpain, this one is kind of...
