Tiffany Smiley is making a homestretch surge in the 2022 ballot counting. As of Friday night, November 11, she was closing in on the magic number of 44%, with 43.52% of the votes. But alas, by Saturday night she was fading, and had only 42.79%, which by Monday afternoon had further fallen to 42.53%,[...]
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Different strokes for different folks
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, sacked a county prosecutor for saying he wouldn’t enforce abortion and transgender laws. In Washington, Loren Culp, a small-town cop, earned a run for governor by refusing to enforce a gun safety law. In Colorado, a “Second Amendm[...]
It’s easy to debate a conservative
I’ll show you, with a specific example. I’m going to pick apart this piece by James Antle III, a conservative pundit (see his profile here). Before diving into it, though, I’ll remark that we don’t hear much political debate in the U.S. anymore, just a lot of partisan noise. [...]
The real reason Kari Lake lost
Kari Lake is a flake, and even Republicans won’t vote for her. That’s how she lost the 2022 election for Arizona governor (read story here). The Arizona Republic, the state’s biggest newspaper, dissected the election and found … (drum roll) … not voting fraud, but ̶[...]
Is the Georgia Senate runoff election fair to Republicans?
God gave us brains to think with, so let’s see if we can figure out this brain-teaser. Political factions have been gaming elections since the first Neanderthal tribal chieftain election ~400,000 years ago, when voting was with clubs. Today’s USA elections aren’t necessarily a whol[...]
Baseball rules
The rule I’ll discuss is this one: “If your pitcher hits our batter, our pitcher will hit your batter.” Trust me, that’s how it actually works in baseball (watch video below). Lacking votes to expel them, Democrats banned Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-[...]
How 3 Republicans could elect a Speaker
Assuming a 220-215 GOP House majority, as NBC News has projected, it would take only 3 GOP votes to elect Justin Amash as speaker if Democrats cooperated. And on Friday, November 18, 2022, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado endorsed Amash, which could bring along other Democrats (read story her[...]
Voters’ memo to Republicans
David Frum, ex-Bush speechwriter (bio here), is asking no one in particular, “Can conservatives learn?” From the 2022 midterms, he means. It’s a serious question. He says, “Through the Trump years, the Republican Party has organized itself as an anti-learning entity. Unwelcom[...]
Boebert’s lead could be torpedoed by signature cures
CNN reported Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) led by 1,122 votes on Friday afternoon, November 11, 2022, and the Associated Press said 99% of the ballots have been counted, which appeared to put an upset by Democratic challenger Adam Frisch out of reach. On Monday, November 14, Newsweek reported (here) th[...]