Yes, you read the headline correctly. Last week the Secretary of State in Republican Red Ohio threatened to leave President Biden off the November ballot. Now we have the same thing coming from another Red state. In this case...
Conservatives love their voter fraud conspiracy theories. It's been an article of faith with them long before 2020 rolled around, which is part of why Trump's Big Lie took hold in Republican's minds the way it did. Frankly, I...
I have admit this particular count in this week's federal indictment of Trump for January 6 didn't strike a chord with me.  If you're like me you wanted to see a Sedition charge.  Well, there's been plenty of commentary...
I was just saying to a friend yesterday that if the evangelicals are going to be in Heaven, I'll take my chances in Hell. Now it appears that Heaven is indeed the last refuge of the scoundrel because Mike...
This is very sobering, especially considering what a battleground Pennsylvania was and how narrow so many of the races there were. The Associated Press is reporting that 16K ballots were disqualified in the last election, most of them by...
It's about time that somebody set the record straight. The GOP has spent the last 2 years of their relentless quest for power through minority rule by passing more and more restrictive voting laws in GOP controlled states. But as...
I wrote recently in passing that the national GOP was sending out updates and tutorials to try to instruct GOP candidates, both incumbents and challengers, on how to avoid getting bogged down into a no-win conversation about the Supreme...
Most of you are familiar by now with the concept of Coattails, since I have written several times that I've never seen a politician with shorter ones than Trump. Briefly, the concept is that a popular candidate, usually an incumbent at...
The messaging ground is shifting ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The GOP plan is simple. They want to use inflation, gas prices, and grocery prices to fuel anger, and then toss in culture war issues to fire up their base....
The Washington Post reports that voter participation surged for Tuesday’s primary election, surpassing even the levels seen in 2020, despite the efforts of the Georgia GOP legislature’s to make it harder to cast a ballot: “By the end of Friday,...

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