Thoughts on the election
Wow, what a night. And, as has become typical in recent years, we still don’t know about several Senate races or who will take control of the House. But much as Trump dodged a real bullet on July 13 in … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Election 2024
Election eve
Here’s a thread for the election results. I’m staying away from coverage for another hour or two, but you can discuss everything here. UPDATE 11/6/2024 at 12:40 AM: I’m back. I still have PTSD from late returns in 2020, so … Continue reading →
Election Day
Not much to add at this point. I’m trying to decide how to handle this evening: when to start watching, and how to maintain some sort of equanimity in the face of the tension. I don’t know whether we’ll know … Continue reading →
Anxiety about the election: plus, why would people vote for Kamala?
I have zero idea what will happen tomorrow – or even how long it will take to name a president-elect. But when I think about the possibility of a Harris win I get more frightened than I ever have been … Continue reading →
Election fraud allegations: here, there, and everywhere
So many stories to cover. (1) In Pennsylvania: Lancaster County officials announced in a news conference Friday that they are investigating two large batches of voter registration forms that are suspected of being fraudulent. During the news conference, Lancaster County … Continue reading →
It’s lies all the way down, and you can fool some of the people much of the time
It seems to me that lies are not incidental to the leftist campaign; they are foundational. The lies are constant and pervasive, and without them the left would have almost no selling points. The key to lying effectively is to … Continue reading →
Ordinarily mild-mannered Hugh Hewitt quits the WaPo on air
I don’t know how any conservative can stand to work for an organization like the WaPo and listen to their slanted coverage. But Hewitt couldn’t take it any more, a bit like Howard Beale in Network. Here’s the video. Capehart’s … Continue reading →
Can’t we all just get along?
From the one and only Babylon Bee: “Listen up, you Nazis. Here’s the deal,” Biden said. “Dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric has no place in our political discourse. That’s why I’m calling on all of Donald Trump’s nasty, disgusting, disease-infested, Hitler-loving, supporters … Continue reading →
Make America Fun Again – with garbage
If you follow the news you can’t help but have heard about Biden’s remarks in which he called Trump supporters “garbage,” and then about the MSM’s concerted attempts to explain his remarks away. You can read about it here as … Continue reading →
Bill and Hillary and Kamala Harris: do they want her to win?
From commenter “John Tyler”: So Bill Clinton goes to Michigan and speaks to an Arab-American group and essentially tells them that HAMAS F’d up on Oct 7 when they butchered Israelis and he goes on to say that because HAMAS … Continue reading →
On abortion as the #1 issue
From commenter “Peter Sells”: t worries me, the notion that there are so many people in the voting public for whom it is possible that abortion might be the #1, #2 and #3 (…) issue. The economy could crash, the … Continue reading →
Trust in the integrity of the voting process
Jeff Bezos wrote this in an op-ed that appeared in the WaPo on Monday: Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct … Continue reading →