Remember Brad Parscale? He came to prominence as the low-level web developer who "engineered" the 2016 Trump "miracle" victory. Sadly, 2020 has not been Brad's year. On September 27, he was arrested and forcibly put under observation after he blew a...
Two term Republican Representative Mia Love has conceded to Democrat Ben McAdams, despite the fact that the vote margin was 694 votes, or just outside of the 0.25 percent needed for an automatic recount. You may recall Trump scolded...
There is no question that this has been an election of firsts, and some very fine firsts, indeed. The first black congresswoman elected from Massachusetts, Alyanna Pressley. Sharice Davids, the first Native American women ever elected to the House....
The GOP is running scared on this one, whew, oh doggies!  Heaven forfend Stacey Abrams should prevail. This ad eclipses Willy Horton. Willy Horton was sane and measured by today’s Trumpian standards. This is vile. https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1058791224180699138 And of course mixed up...
You all know me, I've been a political junkie for 50 years now. And as an  acolyte, And as such, I cut my teeth, grew up with, and operated under certain basic political principles. They may seem arcane now...
File this under Too Weird To Happen, but then again, how much weirder is it than a reality TV actor with no prior political experience being elected president of the United States? This is from a Facebook post, February...
It looks like former House Speaker and once upon a time "rising star" Paul Ryan wants to be back in the spotlight. Given he's taking on Trump one might think he's in "be careful what you wish for territory"...
Trump is undoubtedly dismayed by the huge turnout in early voting in Nevada and Tennessee. One can only assume that he doesn't figure this surge is for the purpose of reelecting Republicans, and so he's already begun efforts to...
Supporters are a wonderful thing. And the most wonderful thing about them is that we all have them. If you come from a normal background, your family are your biggest supporters. Your friends, however many or few there are, are supporters...
One would think that spending a Tuesday evening watching Republican candidates from North Carolina to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, from Mississippi, Kentucky and Ohio get their asses handed to them by the voters, mostly because they let an extreme...

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