As I wake, my left knee seems fine, but as I had difficulties with it after my 4-mile run -- which could've been a moderate gout flare, but I don't know for sure -- I will try another 4-mile run rather than pushing up to 5 miles this morning [UPDATE: once I was running and felt my knee under pressure, I cut it back to 3 miles, and feel fine ( Read more... )

On this date four years ago, Biden was polling 7.8 points above Trump, and he barely won. On this date eight years ago, Clinton was polling 5.4 points above Trump, and she lost ( Read more... )

Biden quit the 2024 race only 9 days ago, but it already feels like a different planet to many Democrats, whereas Republicans are trying to quickly define Harris as "dangerously liberal" based on many of her past statements. She is from San Francisco, although that city is no longer as liberal as its image suggests ( Read more... )

I'm willing to be convinced to support Kamala Harris. I voted for Obama in 2008, because I felt he was a higher quality candidate than the Green Party's that year ( Read more... )

Since the 12th Amendment to the Constitution established our current system of electing Vice Presidents in 1804, no person serving as VP has ever served two full terms as President, no matter how they first entered the role of President ( Read more... )

In both 1952 and 1968, unpopular Democratic Presidents decided not to run for second terms. Both times, the Democratic National Conventions had to select the party's replacement candidates -- in 1952 the delegates ultimately chose Truman's hand-picked successor, in 1968 the delegates chose LBJ's VP on the first vote. Both times, these replacement ( Read more... )

This morning NPR played a clip of President Biden saying something but I couldn't understand what he was saying. Is his voice beyond help or would he benefit from a voice coach ( Read more... )

Captain Edward John Smith, the most senior of the White Star Line's captains, was transferred from the Olympic (previously the largest vessel in the world) to take command of the Titanic (newly the largest vessel in the world) on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic ( Read more... )

“Nothing fundamentally changed about this election last night,” said Quentin Fulks, Mr. Biden’s deputy campaign manager.

Well, if you already believed that Biden was toast as I did, then nothing fundamentally changed as a result of the debate. He went from 95% toast to 100% toast. But for many people who watched the debate, we did change our ( Read more... )

Trump has been consistently ahead of Biden in the polling averages since October 2023, and on June 8th Biden hit his lowest ever average approval rating of 37.4%.

Whereas four years ago today, Biden led Trump in the polling average by 8 points.

So, what does a co-chair of Biden's re-election campaign (James Clyburn, age 83) say?

“I think Joe ( Read more... )