Republicans who want to stop Trump?s renomination need a better argument than ?he can?t win.? We?ve been there before.
Yikes! That’s a scary thought!
Category Archives: elections
Trump’s mistake: hiring people with integrity
Didn’t these people know the conclusions they were hired to reach?
The report was never released publicly after researchers found no evidence that the election had been rigged for Joe Biden.
The schadenfreude is strong
As Rupert Murdoch?s brainchild reels from legal disclosures, Democrats have a big opportunity to take their fight against the network right to its airwaves.
Now the GOP doesn’t want to talk about abortion
From the NYT: “Even as some of their counterparts at the state level race forward with far-reaching abortion bans that could even affect some methods of contraception, Republicans appear determined to recast their position on the issue as one of moderation and avert the gaze of voters away from their anti-abortion-rights agenda. …
“The Republicans’ caution reflects the potential for the eventual ruling to change the midterm political landscape. Their leaders and candidates have built a campaign to reclaim control of the House and Senate around inflation, economic uncertainty, crime, border control and American doubts that President Biden, who is deeply unpopular, can right the ship.
“Now the prospect of eliminating abortion rights has added a tectonic change to American life into the mix, threatening to upend that focus.
“Democrats have signaled that they plan to use the coming decision as a rallying cry for voters to reject Republicans, portraying its implications as vast and unacceptable.”
Debates going the way of the dodo?
The traditional candidate debate might be on its last legs.
How to really confuse voters
One can hope
The former president?s stranglehold on the party is emerging as a serious threat to the GOP?s otherwise bright prospects in November.
Vaccine and votes by county in Georgia
I managed to get into a debate on Facebook with a bunch of right-wingers on vaccination. I accidentally let it get dragged into the rabbit hole of whether red states have lower vaccination rates than blue states. One of the posters claimed that he “just did a quick check here in Ga and the counties Biden won by the most are pretty much identical to the ones he lost by the most.” I could not let this pass so I laboriously entered the vaccination rate by county and the percentage that voted for Trump in 2020 into a spread sheet and produced a scatter graph. As you can see, it has a definite downward slope, showing that the lower the percentage of vaccinated persons in a country, the higher the percentage of people who voted for Trump.
The Onion’s customary accuracy
WASHINGTON?Unsettled by the party?s dismal performance in the Virginia governor?s race, Democratic leadership vowed Wednesday to work twice as hard in the coming months to muddle their agenda. ?Last night was a wake-up call that we need to refocus our efforts on alienating the American voter with vague goals and?
Halting the bananafication of the republic
There are lots of holes to plug.