PA Democrats Want To Make Sure You're Registered To Vote To Flip Pennsylvania Back To Blue

Received two e-mails today I wanted to pass along. First, from Governor Tom Wolf’s (D. PA), PAC, Wolf PAC: Hey, when we say every single vote counts, we mean it. … Read More

The woman he may pick could paint the SC orange to hide the work of RBG. It must be stopped.

My sympathies to the family of Justice Gingsburg’s family.  My further sympathies for our daughters and granddaughters, POC and the disabled.   Meet  Barbara Lagoa:   He and DeSantis working hand in … Read More

Trumpian dissonance in Ohio speech: the phantom 2018 middle-class tax cut has returned

Trump went to Ohio today to draw attention away from what will continue to be news as his crimes catch up to him. Remember that what Trump really wants among … Read More

GA-Sen B: “Pro-Life” Doug Collins (R) Takes To Twitter To Celebrate Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death

That is some disgustingly shameless pandering: x RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended pro-abortion laws. … Read More

Today I voted for Biden and Harris in VA

which opened early in-person voting today. Unlike previous years, you do NOT have to fill out a form and give an excuse of why you cannot vote on election day. … Read More

Trump in ABC town hall, touts 'herd mentality' (or herd immunity) in ignoring pandemic threat

“Let's understand what this is: Donald Trump has confessed, on tape, to the greatest and most deadly lie in all the long history of the United States bar none.” — Steve … Read More

Tom Steyer Sets His Sights On Flipping The North Carolina State Legislature Blue

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, businessman Tom Steyer (D. CA): Flipping North Carolina is going to be key to this election. That’s why Republicans in the state … Read More

IA-Sen: Climate Denier Joni Ernst (R) Is About To Face A Reckoning With Iowa Farmers

Inside Climate News has been doing profiles on the major races this year and how climate change has been an issue in these races. One of the big races they’ve … Read More

bees stop murder hornets as a swarm, but can mass demonstrations stop another Trump coup

There will be a variety of responses to the impending Trump attempt to steal the election. Be prepared. x The Transition Integrity Project has run an interesting set of war-games … Read More

Trump tweets attempt to distract us from his vulgarian reality, revealed by Michael Cohen

Trump’s desperation shows in attempting to try nearly anything, however inept he was in trying to confuse the public about voting by mail. Such wackiness is meant to avoid the … Read More

the GOP has become a crime cartel ruled by a failed casino owner, and he's more unhinged today

Crime was at a 50 year low when Trump took office. Remember that Trump is all about declaring non-trump supporters (and voters) as “un-American”. x Hours after a man wearing … Read More

UPDATE MA-Sen: 3 Polls Confirm Sen. Ed Markey (D) Beating Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D) In The Primary

Some good news today out of Massachusetts courtesy of two news polls. First, Data For Progress: x 🚨#MASEN Poll🚨 Markey: 46% (+8)Kennedy: 38% (w/leaners) Markey: 50% (+7)Kennedy: 43% 732 N … Read More

ME-Sen: Maine GOP Head Says Susan Collins (R) Supports Trump Even As She Tries To Run Away From Him

So this happened earlier today: Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who is fighting to keep her Senate seat in one of the country’s most notable races, said Tuesday she’s focusing on … Read More

“The RNC is Trump fan fiction”

The RNC has become GOP meta, political fantasies laid upon an unintended sequence of failed actions in reality. What if Trump could ignore history, science, and rationality and yet remain IMPOTUS. … Read More

CRITICAL Advice: Making Sure Your Mail-In Ballot Counts

The Washington Post has a front-page story up today on how to make sure your mail-in ballot is processed and counted: How to prevent your mail ballot from being rejected. … Read More

KS-Sen: Pete Buttigieg Helps Dr. Barbara Bollier (D) Get Ready To Take Away Moscow Mitch's Majority

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D. IN), in support of Dr. Barbara Bollier’s (D. KS) U.S. Senate campaign: As the mayor of … Read More

always slay it – a Biden speech for our times

An excellent speech pairing small details like “muzzle” with “mask”, carrying throughout the imagery of light and dark, and tight in length. It was well crafted and well-delivered. The peroration built … Read More

Joy-Ann Reid exuberant personal take about the Democratic National Convention was inspiring

One of the better parts of the DNC day-3 coverage was watching a happy and exuberant Joy-Ann Reid as she stated that the DNC is showing what America could become. … Read More

1st Murder Hornet Caught in Washington State but does not mean Trump will do better in swing states

Making an orange juice and rice wine trap for murder hornets doesn’t encourage thinking about the oncoming possibility that Washington State may also be a bellwether for Trump’s swing state … Read More

Interesting poll – Rural Voters and USPS

A donor offered to fund a poll of this topic (that provides a link to download a PDF) in for the Niskanen Center. Rachel Bitecofer offered to administer it, and … Read More

ABC News: Another A+ Pollster Gives Biden a Double-Digit National Lead

An ABC News/Washington Post Poll shows Joe Biden leading Trump nationally by 10% or better. Biden leads Trump by 54% to 44% among likely voters and leads by 53% to 41% … Read More

“faszerism” Trump remains the tween who got caught with a switchblade

Trump, the troubled teen described in several biographies, got “sent to military school” as the cliche goes, and his personality disorder remains fixated on burning ants and destroying institutions on … Read More

Top DHS staffer under Trump says pr*sident has 'damaged the country in countless ways'

Other than Sean Spicer, who’s spent his post-White House years defending Donald Trump when not dancing like an elderly canary being sucked into a vacuum hose attachment, how many ex-Trump … Read More

Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.

While voting is important to all the winning message that will hit every American in the gut was best said by Rahm Emanuel. Rahm Emanuel has the right post office … Read More

what, another Trump Presser? LiveBlog

“To Joe, I would say stop playing politics with the virus. Too serious. Partisan politics has no place here,” the president says while delivering an attack on his election opponent … Read More

For Trump, quiet parts get said out loud on the scorched-earth path to the bunker: Nobel Prize!

Unhingery abounds at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When it comes to voting rights in our pandemic election year, President Donald Trump has a habit of saying the quiet part out loud. Is it a short-circuit in the super-ego or … Read More

GA-Sen A: David Perdue (R) Caught Lying About His Record On Protecting Pre-Existing Conditions

Add him to the list: U.S. Sen. David Perdue’s latest ad opens with a direct-to-camera assertion from the Republican: “Health insurance should always cover pre-existing conditions for anyone. Period.” It’s … Read More

Polls Show Some Republican House Seats Surprisingly Competitive in Swing States

A number of swing states or potential swing states have recent polls showing tighter than expected races in some Republican districts, including some incumbents. A poor showing by a congressional candidate … Read More

Trump announced plans to end Social Security if he’s re-elected: “the Lord created executive orders”

It is the GOP white whale, a continuing trope, to loot the social security system by eliminating it, and Trump wanted no defections in 2020. It is a sign of … Read More

NY-01, 02, 21, 22, 23 & 24: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) Helps Send Some More NY Dems To Congress

Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of these New York Democrats running for Congress: I first ran for Congress in 2006 in a long-shot … Read More

Trump and GOP are rapidly making the US into a failed state – can we pull ourselves out of the muck?

Trump’s in New Jersey for a golf weekend as the US continues to falter. There could be a Hail Mary. https://twitter.com/Politidope/status/1291505955079884800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw If the United States isn’t a failed state in … Read More

contesting Biden ballots: will the GOP buy the Trumpian phantasm of banana republicanism

One score years ago, and this time TPUSA could be the Drumpfjugend to lead the Brooks Brothers Riot 2.0. The limited imagination of conservatives can only imagine as reactionaries. Trump … Read More

IA-Sen: New Monmouth Poll Confirms Close Contests In Both Senate & Pres Races

Monmouth University released their Iowa poll today and they confirm that it is going to be a tight race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Right now, Trump leads Biden … Read More

KS-Sen: Let's Help Dr. Barbara Bollier (D) Get Ready To Take Down Rep. Roger Marshall (R)

It’s official: Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall is projected to defeat former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in the Republican Senate primary, according to the Associated Press, calming Republicans' worst … Read More

Pelosi schools ABC host as she tried to slam Democratic governor on COVID-19 resurgence

ABC Host Martha Raddatz asked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a charged and rather silly question with a partisan twist. Speaker Nancy Pelosi never gets caught off guard Watch … Read More

NY Daily News front page contrasts pouty Trump with grown-up past presidents

This pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? From today’s New York Daily News cover story: One by one, former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton stood tall … Read More

GA-Sen A & B: Monmouth Poll Has Biden & Trump Tied In Georgia & Tight Senate Races

Monmouth University released their Georgia poll today. They found that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are tied 47/47 but I wanted to bring attention to the polling in both … Read More

Who Can Get Under This Barr?

Trinidad native Shemika Charles holds a world record. Who is Shemika Charles—you ask? Ms. Charles is a 23-year-old performer whose claim to fame is holding the Guinness World Record for … Read More

Seattle Times endorses Biden

in an editorial titled  Editorial: The Times editorial board recommends Joe Biden for president (warning — if you have an ad blocker you might have to unblock at least this … Read More

siegead@gmail.com, clam227@yahoo.com, shockwave@inorbit.com, valenz@austSeattle Times endorses Biden

in an editorial titled  Editorial: The Times editorial board recommends Joe Biden for president (warning — if you have an ad blocker you might have to unblock at least this … Read More

Trump: “The country is in very good shape, other than if you look South and West.”

Yesterday’s Trump presser only needed a whiteboard and a Sharpietm to draw the path to a quarter-million US deaths. x The U.S. has now confirmed 4 million coronavirus cases — just 15 … Read More

GA-Sen A: New Poll Has Jon Ossoff (D) Beating David Perdue (R) 45-44, Biden Beating Trump 47-43

Some very encouraging news today out of Georgia: x New GEORGIA polling from @ossoff, conducted by Dem firm Garin-Hart-Yang: Ossoff (D) 45Perdue (R) 44 Trump 43Biden 47 (July 9-15, 800 … Read More

Trump Attacks America, making Portland like Minneapolis and DC

Trump's protection squads may deploy drones in Portland, as he aches for another Minneapolis or DC. Feds control airspace over Portland to minimize news coverage and facilitate drones, as street … Read More

Inside Elections Changes Ratings on 17 States Toward Biden

insideelections.com/… Inside Elections is the latest political organization to shift its election ratings toward the Democratic candidate. In the Presidential race, it now rates the states of Arizona, Florida, and Wisconsin as … Read More

State Poll Summary: Biden Holds 10% Margin; McConnell Only Leads by 4% in KY

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/… The year 2020 has been quite a year, and we are only about half way through. It is 110 days until the election and less than six weeks until the … Read More

Inside the Walls of America

If you feel as though you are trying to get a sip from a fire hose and are drowning in orange spray tan, here is another dribble of information. Among … Read More

Walmart to Require All US Customers to Wear Masks

http://www.cnn.com/… Walmart Stores, including Sam’s Clubs, will require all its customers to wear a mask starting July 20. The world’s largest retailer is joining a growing list of national store chains that require … Read More

AZ-Sen: New OH Predictive Insights Poll Has Mark Kelly (D) Leading Martha McSally (R) 52-43

Some good news today out of Arizona: Retired astronaut Mark Kelly (D) holds a 9-point lead over Sen. Martha McSally (R) in Arizona, a state critical to Democrats' hopes of reclaiming control … Read More

IA-Sen: IA Dems Launch “Election Year Ernst” Website Exposing Joni Ernst's (R) Abysmal Record

Here’s the latest today out of Iowa: Iowa Democrats are launching a one-stop shop for voters to learn about what they call Sen. Joni Ernst’s six years of political corruption … Read More