(Political Ramblings from a Little Left of Center)
While everyone’s attention is elsewhere at the moment, the 2020 elections are just seven months away. Some things have changed; some things haven’t. Since my last post on the Presidential contest, Sanders dropped out of the Democratic race and endorsed Biden, making the latter the presumptive nominee. On the Republican side, Trump is still a…
I thought I’d share a few of my own COVID-19 analytics (using data as of 4/10/20). While I follow a wide variety of published sources, it can be tough to glean useful information from the reams of available data. For my own edification, I decided to hack together some simple analytics to give myself a…
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With the latest election results, it seems pretty clear that Joe Biden will be the 2020 Democratic nominee for President. It’s now important to plan a sane path to a convention that sets up a strong general election campaign. In the immediate aftermath, I wasn’t a fan of party attempts to force Bernie Sanders out…
In this election, we have to stay focused on the dark clouds behind any silver linings. That’s why I’m here! Joe Biden staged an impressive Super Tuesday comeback, Bernie Sanders managed to hold on, and the race for the Democratic nomination is now a two-person contest. Biden’s surge seems to imply that a majority of…
While the World Health Organization hasn’t yet categorized the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, that’s just a formality. It is a pandemic. As of this writing, there were 90,933 cases in 76 countries resulting in 3,120 deaths. In the U.S., there were 103 reported cases resulting in 6 deaths. All of these numbers will…
In the midst of the 2020 election season, let’s take a brief trip back in time to the 1972 election season. Almost a half century ago, a very large number of Democratic candidates emerged to take on a Republican President running for his second term. The President’s reputation for unethical behavior made him a possible…
As much as I enjoy being right, there are times that I would dearly love to be proven wrong. Unfortunately, many of my old blog posts appear to be sadly prophetic. The Democratic nominating process is convincingly demonstrating that it wasn’t designed to pick a nominee that can actually win the general election. Iowa was…
The sixth Democratic Presidential Debate was Thursday night. It occurs to me that these debates are starting to look a lot like moon landings. Seriously. Anyone remember the sixth moon landing? No? That’s exactly my point. Yeah, okay. I do remember it. It was 1972 and Apollo 17 was crewed by Cernan, Schmitt, & Evans. …
I was almost finished with yet another post about impeachment. Upon review (and despite it being extremely well-written), I deleted it. Nothing substantial has changed since my last post on the topic: Trump deserves to be impeached and removed from office; Trump was impeached by the House; Trump will not be removed from office by…