Angry Rant Time: The Stupid, the Ignorant, and the Deplorable
Note: I wrote the following for my blog, more out of a need for a bit of catharsis than out of a belief that it will serve any useful purpose. Those who prefer to look to the future might not want to...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s Urban Turnout Problem
On November 15, we released an article that highlighted the Democratic Party’s failure in last week’s election to gain traction in rural and small-town America. The effect of which stymied the party’s...
View ArticleTRUMP'S FL LEAD DOWN TO 114K...FBI INTERVENTION APPEARS MORE DECISIVE THAN...
Donald Trump’s lead in Florida has shrunk significantly from 135,000 on the Wednesday after the election to 114,000 today as provisional ballots and other votes are cleaned up. While these late...
View ArticleCartoon: I'm still with... oh, never mind
Among the many things I can’t shake is the photograph with a White House staffer in tears during DT’s first visit. Her face really said it all. All their faces did.This cartoon was inspired by...
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The Electoral College is Evolving Along with the Electorate - Look at These...
Hillary Clinton has the won the popular vote by a larger margin than Al Gore in the 2000 election. When all votes are tallied, her margin of victory is likely to exceed 1.5 million. Still, she lost the...
View ArticlePotential Recount of MI, PA and WI could change everything.
Looks like history could now repeat itself in more ways then one, as there could potentially be a recount in three battleground states(MI, WI and PA). While Clinton herself has not expressed any...
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2016 shows that Gerrymandering increasingly defies the will of the voters
Gerrymandering is an oft-cited reason for voter dissatisfaction and the lack of competitive congressional elections. There is validity to this complaint, as the disparity between the national popular...
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A Counter-Factual To The Working Class Narrative Of The Election
The general consensus that the Democrats seem to have taken from the election debacle is the need to focus on the working class. While I don't necessarily disagree with that analysis, I also don't...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Learned – Stronger Together is Not Just a Campaign Slogan -or-...
My speech from Nov 21 — First meeting of the Liberal Women for (Hillary) Clinton & Cocktails meeting. Midlothian, VAI’m Kim Drew Wright. I’ve lived in Midlothian for about 10 years now with my...
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No, It's Not the Data That's Wrong
Along with many political analysts, we're still taking stock of what happened in the 2016 election and the implications of the outcome for the future. Some observers have suggested that campaigns...
View ArticleTrump's National Support at 27%
Despite the lowest voter turn-out in twenty years Mr. Trump in his inaugural address has once again implied that he received an unprecedented level of national support thereby giving him a mandate to...
View ArticleTrump's Simpleton View: Election Results are Tricky to Understand
Elections are tricky to understand. It takes a significant amount of information to understand the results of an election, coupled with nuanced thinking about people and their views on complicated...
View ArticleGIGANTIC WIN in Virginia Special Election; Dems Take Prince William County!
It’s official — Jacqueline Smith will be the next Clerk of the Circuit Court servicing Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park! With 100% of precincts reporting, the final vote count is as...
View ArticleHere's what Trump's favorite 2016 election map looks like without the...
Donald Trump loves to brag by pointing to a map of how every county voted in last year’s presidential election, never mind that 55 percent of Americans reside in a county where Clinton beat Trump....
View ArticleWonderfully optimistic commentary from an enemy--John Podhoretz.
John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine, is a neocon son of a neocon father. If there is a way to spin the facts in a rightward direction, he is clever enough to find a way to do that. Well,...
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Analysis of Roy Moore's 2012 Alabama Supreme Court Election, and Implications...
In Alabama, two statewide elections were held in 2012. The first was the Presidential election, where, predictably, Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama in a 22-point landslide. The other election was a...
View ArticleThe historic nature of Doug Jones's victory
Doug Jones’s victory in Alabama was a historic one. Look no further than the fact that this was the first statewide victory for Democrats in nine years and that becomes apparent. As far as top offices...
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The Definitive Guide to the Results of New Jersey’s 2017 State Elections,...
On November 7, 2017, New Jersey held a general election to elect its Governor and state legislature. The gubernatorial election was an open seat, as Republican incumbent Chris Christie was...
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Analysis of the Results of the 2017 U.S. Senate Special Election in Jefferson...
The 2017 U.S. Senate special election in Alabama was a political earthquake in more ways than one. Not only did a Democrat win a statewide election in Alabama for the first time since 2008, and a U.S....
View ArticleWisconsin SD10 Special Election Preview
Introduction:My goal with this post is to preview today’s special election for the open seat in the 10th district of the Wisconsin State Senate by analyzing the results from the December 19 primary....
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: WI State Senate Special Election Results
Special Election Day is here in Wisconsin! Democrat Patty Schachtner is facing off with Freedom Caucus wannabe Assembly Rep Adam Jarchow. This is historically quite a red district, but the combination...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: On Elections and Media Spin
I was in Thailand on holiday for Mr NY Brit Expat’s birthday. While we were there, there were local elections in England (yes, we did postal votes). Trying to find out what was happening as I was using...
View ArticleGood news from Michigan
A quick diary regarding Michigan results.Projected winners: Governor: Gretchen Whitmer U. S. Senate: Debbie Stabenow Leading: Secretary of State: Jocelyn Benson has a nine percent lead. Attorney...
View ArticleBruised and Battered Election Results
Some how just winning the House seems disappointing. Pray for the good health of Supreme Court Justices. The House of Representatives can investigate but with even this Supreme Court, can the House...
View ArticleWho won in Illinois...Pappas or Winger
Please help...I cannot find anywhere on the internet if Pappas defeated Winger in Illinois 43. Pappas was ahead 50 to 49 but I can’t find a declaration of a win anywhere. Do I finally have a democratic...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Democracy in America, Some Thoughts on the US Midterm...
The struggle against racism, oppression and rising fascism takes many forms. Organising on the ground by the oppressed and exploited and in solidarity is an essential form of struggle. If strong...
View ArticleWisconsin gives my faith a boost
Before the results of the Wisconsin race were released, I was fairly certain that the Repugs had the race effectively rigged. Being a Wisconsin ex-pat, I’ve watched things crumble after Scott Wanker...
View ArticleBelarus' Dictator Alexander Lukashenko Has His Ceaușescu Moment
For those of you not old enough to remember Nicolae Ceaușescu, he was the Communist dictator of Romania. In December 1989, anti government protests were put down with live fire. That ignited nationwide...
View ArticleElection Results — What I Expect
I expect this year’s presidential election to be very similar to what we’ve seen in past presidential elections. The results will be credible and determinative of the outcome. As in the past, some...
View ArticleIt Is Not Trump That Should Terrify Us - His Raging Heavily Armed &...
ImPOTUS continues to insist that the results must be declared on election night, questioning the notion of counting all of the votes (as if that is a problem that must be solved!). We continue to watch...
View ArticleLive 2020 election results
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View ArticleNC will begin releasing data late due to precincts opening late. Any other...
Saw this come across the notifications on my phone.www.cbs17.com/…North Carolina usually starts reporting at 7:30, it will be 8:15 before the data starts to flow.– North Carolina will delay releasing...
View ArticleThe Wait for Not Just Any Election Result
I'm not much for viewing things in simple black and white but I don't see any other way to look at this. It's stark. So will we find out that America's soul is so dark that nothing can deter people...
View ArticleGA is still in play in the early AM.
I’m not watching TV, just looking at numbers from the NYTimes site and some others.GA is still in play at 2:30 AM. Right now, Trump leads, 50.6% to 48.1%. However, there are enough uncounted votes in...
View ArticleRegardless of the End Result of this Election... (Sleep Deprived Diary)
We must be ready to rest, even if only to regain our strength.Because after that, we will still fight. We will still have to deal with the ratfuckery of the Right Wing, and their Conservative Heavy...
View ArticleWhat's you take on polling?
As with others, I have to wonder why actual voting results are so divergent from the polls. It’s crazy.I saw one person on TV say that undecideds are prone to vote against incumbents. I don’t think...
View ArticleNPR says the polls were wrong. But what if they were right?
As I awoke this morning and turned on NPR, it soon became clear that we still didn’t have a definitive answer as to who won the election. >sigh< Maybe we’ll have it by the time I post this. Or...
View ArticleThank You Everyone.
Today is the day we got our country back. Today is the day to thank, in particular, all Black women who got out the vote, the Black Lives Matter movement, George Floyd whose death opened our eyes,...
View ArticleWhat A Rollercoaster Week...
I am not sure how the rest of the nation felt last week, but it was just a roller coaster for me and my family. I felt like I was very politically informed and balanced going into this election. I was...
View ArticleRepublicans prove either too deranged or too spineless to take a stand for...
NBC News nails the current state of play with this headline: Trump's effort to overturn the election results may be inept. But it's still a scandal.That's exactly right. Trump's bogus and sometimes...
View ArticleRule 11: Forced Admission of Truth by Administration
For lawyers reading DailyKos, my reading indicates that as the Trump Campaign loses lawsuit after lawsuit for simple lack of any evidence whatsoever there are significant legal problems evolving with...
View ArticleTrump's COVID Relief Gambit: Throw Out Electoral College Votes, or Watch...
Trump’s last minute attacks on the COVID-19 relief bill is all about forcing Congressional Republicans to dispute Joe Biden’s victory come January 6th. Trump is so stupid and delusional that he...
View ArticleAt Least 140 Republican Representatives and One Senator Will Vote For A Civil...
Let that sink in while celebrating the New Year! What do the batshit crazies voting to overturn the Presidential election think will happen if they are successful? That most of us would simply react...
View ArticleFormer Republican senator says supporting Josh Hawley was the 'worst mistake'...
In the wake of pro-Trump insurgents rioting in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, many Republicans who have enabled Donald Trump have been called out by colleagues and the general public. For example,...
View ArticleThe treachery of Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz marked the beginning of the end of...
In the opening salvo of their presumed 2024 presidential bids, Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas jockeyed to claim credit for being the leader of the Sedition caucus—the...
View ArticleJust 47 House districts flipped in the last three presidential elections....
The 2020 presidential election, happily for Democrats, had a very different outcome than the 2016 presidential election. However, when you drill down below the national level to look at how the race...
View ArticleOur new maps show which congressional districts have gotten redder or bluer...
Daily Kos Elections recently took a look at the various permutations of which presidential candidate won which congressional district from 2012 to 2020, sorting every district into one of eight...
View ArticleTrump lashes out at Supreme Court justices, with 'particular bile' for one in...
When you hear the name Michael Wolff, you might remember that the journalist published two books about Donald Trump’s presidency, Fire and Fury and Siege, which Trump threatened to sue him over. Wolff...
View ArticleAssault on Voter Rights Reeks of GOP Desperation
There is something grossly wrong with local, state and federal elections that deserve our attention. Since the last election, the country has spiraled down the abyss of regulatory overkill addressing...
View ArticleThis 27-year-old ran on a campaign to defund the police—and defeated longtime...
As we process results from the elections on Tuesday, Nov. 2, it’s all too easy to fall into despair and frustration about the races that didn’t go our way. While work absolutely remains to be done,...
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