[NOTE: This is the first part of a planned 2-part series.] Last Tuesday was not the first time socialists have won elections in the US, but until recently most of those elections occurred close to a hundred years ago (see … Continue reading →
A while back, commenter “Bauxite” wondered: I think there is something missing from leftists. Behaving the way they behave now while “forgetting” about the last three times a Republican has won the presidency destroys their creditibility and the credibility of … Continue reading →
From Biden’s Thursday night speech: Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win or they were cheated. And that’s where MAGA Republicans are today. But there is no indication that … Continue reading →
Jack Cashill asks why – considering the threat that the left represented in the 2020 election and Trump’s obvious successes in his first term – former president George W. Bush couldn’t bring himself to support Trump, or at least not … Continue reading →
Yesterday I accidentally happened across this post of mine from nearly two years ago. The post was about the Democrats’ desire to abolish the Electoral College, and it was in that context that I wrote the following, which may seem … Continue reading →
I have a natural tendency to be pessimistic about elections. This has been accentuated in recent years by the closeness of so many recent ones, and a growing distrust of polling. But that doesn’t mean I don’t take polls into … Continue reading →
Looking at the 2020 Democratic primaries, it occurs to me that Sanders’ position in the Democratic field in 2020 is something like Trump’s in the Republican field in 2016. If you think that sounds bizarre, please hear me out before … Continue reading →
Interesting: Nearly two-thirds of Trump voters who supported Democratic congressional candidates in the 2018 midterms that flipped control of House to Democrats reported they would back the president over the three candidates currently leading in the Democratic primary, according to … Continue reading →
What a difference a few years makes. The WSJ reports that back in January of 2017, a short time before Trump’s inauguration, Politico wrote an article that stated: A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met … Continue reading →
Norman Podhoretz is eighty-nine years old and still going strong, not to mention sharp as a tack. Case in point, this interview. Unfortunately, the Podoretz interview itself is behind an impregnable paywall, so that link is to a post at … Continue reading →
Just to recap—Democrats Northam and Fairfax and Herring—the governor and the first and second in line to replace him—are all in a heap of trouble. But next in line is a Republican who is House Speaker, Kirk Cox. But here’s … Continue reading →
The new technique of “ballot harvesting” in California may account for why Orange Country turned blue in the 2018 election. On election night six Republicans were ahead in their House districts in Orange County, but when the late votes came … Continue reading →