Short takes on a busy day
One of the aftermaths of this election is that there’s so much to absorb, and so much to think about, that I could read and write 24 hours a day and only cover a small fraction of it. Today I … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Politics
My mother’s dresses and Theresa May’s knees
First, it was Theresa May’s scandalous kitten heels with the leopard print. Now, it’s her knees, and a little bit of upper arm/shoulder on this 60-year-old: Actually, I’d love to have that dress. And I’d also love to have some … Continue reading →
More on “uncouthness” and class conflict
After I wrote yesterday’s post criticizing the idea that it is Trump’s “uncouthness” that constitutes the major objection of Trump opponents to electing Trump as president, I got to thinking about why this “they hate him because he’s uncouth” type … Continue reading →
Notes on blogging and this election (and more on the phenomenon of “oversampling”)
I will be extremely unhappy with the results of this election, no matter who wins. But one thing I will be extremely happy about is that the election will finally be over. Finally, after what seems like years. Short of … Continue reading →
Congress, the Hillary Clinton presidency, and the nuclear option
This post posits what is of course still a hypothetical: a Hillary Clinton presidency. We don’t know that she will be elected. It is not impossible that Trump could win the whole thing. It is just highly unlikely, and I … Continue reading →
Podesta and the “oversampling” on polls
There’s a meme going around to the effect that Wikileaks has exposed a John Podesta email that proves that polls are rigged to favor Democrats through oversampling of Democrats. Commenter “blert” (among others) described it yesterday this way: We have … Continue reading →
Meanwhile, Michael Totten reports on what’s been brewing in the Democratic Party
Michael Totten went to the Democratic Convention and talked to a lot of Bernie Sanders delegates and supporters: I asked them to tell me the biggest problem they had with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment, to narrow it down … Continue reading →
Harry Reid says the Senate is set for the nuclear option
No surprise whatsoever: Reid, who has previously floated changing the rules in 2017, added to TPM that if Republicans “mess with the Supreme Court, it’ll be changed just like that in my opinion. So I’ve set that up. I feel … Continue reading →
Bush v. Gore
During the discussion here and elsewhere about Trump’s debate remarks in which he refused to pledge to accept the election results, various people brought up the case of the 2000 election and Gore’s concession and then un-concession. They seemed to … Continue reading →
Frost, poetry, and politics: “A Case for Jefferson”
Well, it may not really be poetry—even though it’s a poem by a master of poetry: Robert Frost. It’s more in the vein of light verse, which Frost sometimes also wrote. The treatment is light, that is. Not the subject … Continue reading →
The October surprise is no surprise
An October surprise timed to maximally hurt the Republican candidate is no surprise at all. It is so predictable that the term “October surprise” has become commonplace. In is no news, either, that the MSM tries to elect the Democrat. … Continue reading →
Today’s meme: “Any GOP candidate would have been slimed by the MSM and the Democrats”
You see it on this blog among some commenters, and you see it from highly esteemed conservative bloggers such as John Hinderaker at Powerline: the argument that the current attacks on Trump are much like attacks on previous GOP candidates … Continue reading →