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A simple way to determine who to vote for.
Republicans, since 1995, have held at least one House of Congress for 18 years, both Houses of Congress for 12 years, the White House for 8 years, at least one House of Congress and White House for 6 years, both Houses of Congress and the White House for 4 years. There have been two years in that span in which the Republicans held no House in ( Read more... ) -
A Realization
I can't think of an election in my lifetime in which the sausage analogy of politics is more apt ( Read more... ) -
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And the Oplympics are back on. I don't know if anyone remembers that I do this, but here's my weighted ranking of medal winners so far. Gold=4, Silver=2, Bronze=1. With two days of competition in the books, the weighting is already being felt with Italy leapfrogging Australia; Russia getting ahead of Hungary; and Japan in front of Hungary, Great ( Read more... ) -
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Again on the subject of false equivalances, if the Democratic base is as disappointed in it's candidate as the Republican leadership is of theirs, where's all the resignation letters from Democratic Party members leaving in a huff because Hillary is so awful a human being? -
Something to think about
There's a lot of false equivalences in media coverage of politics today ( Read more... ) -
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Now that the conventions are over, the general election begins in earnest. A lot of people are saying that a vote for a third party candidate is a wasted vote. I want to say unequivocally and without reservation the only wasted vote is the vote that isn't cast.
When it comes to civic involvement, there isn't a person in our nation who cannot do more ( Read more... ) -
Finally
I've finally figured out how to sum up Trump, "treasonous scam artist who can't pay his bills." -
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Watching the shitstorm that is the Republican National Convention I have a singular observation about the entirety of the Trump campaign ( Read more... ) -
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If you call any state won by a party in the previous Presidential election by at least 55% "safe" for that party in the coming election, the Democratic nominee will start with 179 electoral votes and the Republican nominee will start with 125 ( Read more... ) -
It could happen
During a conversation over the holiday, Presidential politics came up ( Read more... )