A recent colloquy on Fox News between Maria Bartiromo, a former journalist who’s now a GOP propagandist, and Rep. Richard McCormick (R-GA), who represents Atlanta suburbs Wikipedia describes as “Republican stronghold” territory, went something like this: Bartiromo: “What do y[...]
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Nope, Tiffany Smiley can’t beat Dan Newhouse
Tiffany Smiley (photo, left) tried to unseat Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) in the August 2024 primary, but she came in third, meaning she’s eliminated. Newhouse will face Jerrod Sessler in November. Trump endorsed Sessler and Smiley. He has a grudge against Newhouse, who voted to impeach him for th[...]
The Democrats’ Tim Walz strategy
For this post, I’m relying on a series of Politico articles on August 6, 2024, linking to each. It was Harris’s decision, but she had plenty of input from her party. She was lobbied to pick someone who served in the U.S. House, where Walz spent 12 years before becoming Minnesota’s [...]
Can Tiffany Smiley beat Dan Newhouse?
Dan Newhouse (R-WA) is a 5-term congressman who represents the swath of eastern Washington just east of the Cascade mountains, from the Canadian border to the Columbia River (see map here). The district is so red it will go Republican in November. In every election there, the Democratic candidate st[...]
This woman won’t be a senator, but she’s running anyway
John Curtis (bio here) is the 2024 GOP nominee for the Utah Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney. Curtis is a boring man. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a management degree, worked in business, got tired of losing as a Democrat in a deep-red state so became a Republican, and was[...]
Is Harris husband’s affair a big deal?
The tabloid Daily Mail thinks it is. They ran a big story here. Doug Emhoff (photo) admits he cheated on his first wife, but according to Politico, Harris knew about it she married him, and the Biden campaign knew about it when vetting Harris for vice president (see story here). “The incendiar[...]
Who’s lying about abortion in WA governor’s race?
Polls show Bob Ferguson (D) and Dave Reichert (R) will face off for Washington governor after next week’s primary. They’re already calling each other liars. Ferguson ran an ad saying Reichert, while in Congress, “voted for a nationwide abortion ban, with criminal penalties for doct[...]
What have Democrats done for you lately?
They’re protecting consumers again. The Biden administration is proposing a rule that will end the airline practice of charging extra to seat families together (see story here). Meanwhile, Republicans blocked a child tax credit in the Senate, because they don’t want Democrats to get cred[...]
Is this now Harris’s race to lose?
I don’t like predicting elections, and won’t try, because elections are unpredictable. So I won’t answer that question. Making news is a Bloomberg poll released Tuesday, July 30, 2024, showing Harris has pulled ahead of Trump in all seven battleground states (see story here). But p[...]