As Florida recounts go…
…I guess this one was pretty quick. I want to hear that fat lady singing, though. Not sure I hear her yet, but she’s certainly practicing her scales. I keep thinking of the title of a book by Hugh Hewitt, … Continue reading →
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And the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee will almost certainly be…
…Lindsay Graham. Hopefully, the new post-Kavanaugh model. Grassley will be taking over Finance. The contrast between House and Senate will be rather stark this term.
Continue reading →Maybe someday Florida will learn how to run an election—but I wouldn’t sit on a hot stove till it does
Then again, maybe the Florida powers-that-be are running it exactly the way they want to. You may have noticed I’ve not run many posts about this, even though it’s a big story. Here’s what I’ve written so far. And for … Continue reading →
The split tickets and the votes for governor
Commenter Mike K asks: I am still interested in why Ducey, in his race for governor got 1,241,028 votes and McSally got 1, 059, 124 votes. That’s almost 200,000 votes more for the GOP governor than for the GOP Senator. … Continue reading →
Did John McCain kill the House in November of 2018?
Why would anyone say that? After all, McCain was already dead when the election occurred. And he’d been in the Senate anyway. But I have had the same thought as that expressed in this WSJ piece (at least, the first … Continue reading →
Jeff Sessions resigns: so long, it’s been not all that good to know you
Jeff Sessions has tendered his (forced) resignation. But wasn’t this something that we knew would happen after the election? I don’t have time to look for a link right now, but that’s my recollection. If that’s correct, I don’t know … Continue reading →
Bye bye old investigations; hello new investigations
As far as the halting of the ongoing House investigations, goes, they can still continue till the end of the term. My sense of it is that a great deal has been uncovered so far—at least, enough to convince those … Continue reading →
Florida goes red and votes to turn itself blue
In close races, the Republican candidates for governor and senator in Florida were victorious. At the same time the voters of Florida gave them their wins, about a million and a half felons in the state were automatically given the … Continue reading →
More post-election thoughts: the battle and the war
I think of yesterday’s election as a small skirmish, a battle in a long long war. And yes, that’s a metaphor. But I think it’s an apt one. During the Obama years the right was worried about a lot of … Continue reading →
A few more thoughts on the election
I’m not the least bit surprised by the Menendez win in New Jersey. It’s a very blue state, and although Menendez is a pretty bad candidate he’s still a Democrat, and that counts for a lot. And of course, although … Continue reading →
Election Night 2018 results
[UPDATES below; scroll down.] Polls are starting to close, and so here’s the thread for the results. I haven’t turned on my TV yet. I’ll wait a bit. UPDATE 9:00 PM I find that I’m still very reluctant to turn … Continue reading →
Two different parties, two different worlds?
Not exactly, but sort of: …[T]he American electorate has separated into two increasingly homogenous political tribes. As Lilliana Mason points out in Uncivil Agreement, “partisanship can now be thought of as a mega-identity.” The Republican mega-identity is religious, middle-class, rural, … Continue reading →