Category: National
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The Kamala Coalition
I’m seeing reports about Kamala Harris reviving the Obama coalition and also engaging various other collections of potential voters and while all of that appears to be true (we can’t know for sure until the polls close in November) I keep thinking that there is something more going on than those reports are capturing. I…
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Pre-Super Tuesday Revisions
Who knew that after posting on Friday I would need to update all three of my recent posts before we arrived at Super Tuesday. On my candidate ranking my top two candidates have dropped out. Additionally, while I had Michael Bloomberg ahead of Joe Biden I am considering that I might prefer Biden over Bloomberg…
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An Age Problem
I’ve mentioned that I have a problem with the ages of most of the presidential candidates. Today a thought struck me that I think would put that problem in perspective. I realized that Elizabeth Warren – the third youngest legitimate candidate still in the race is only three years younger than Bill Clinton – who…
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Who can win?
For the second time today I need to get something published before an approaching deadline. This time it is my take on the chances that the various Democratic candidates have of getting the nomination. I want to make sure that I publish this before we get more data from voters voting. If I had written…
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2020 Candidates Ranked
I’ve been meaning to share my take on the 2020 candidates for some time now. It would be a water not to do so before Super Tuesday so I’ve put it off as long as possible already. At this point in the cycle there are only 6 Democrats and one Republican with even a remote…
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The pundits who cry wolf
We should all know what it means to “cry wolf” and while pundits across the political spectrum are prone to dong so, those on the liberal end of the spectrum should be kicking themselves right about now that because of the way they demonized a very decent Mitt Romney in 2012 (as well many other…
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Choosing a Third Party Candidate
If you are choosing a Third Party candidate to vote for, choose one who demonstrates the traits of a decent president. This year, choose Evan McMullin.
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A Time for Contrition
Half an apology from a man who publicly declares a policy of no remorse in his life proves that he doesn’t understand the power of words and should not be entrusted with such a position of influence as he is seeking. If he is “our best option” in the election then our society has bigger…
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Real solutions require internal change
Donald Trump says he wants to “make America great again” but he proposes to do it in all the wrong ways. If we were willing to solve our actual problems rather than blaming them on others he would have no appeal as a candidate.
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Carly Fiorina
If the question before me were “should Carly Fiorina be our next President?” the answer would have to be I really don’t know yet.