Month: July 2016

Party Unity, My Ass

You know, there’s a part of me that admires this woman, but she’s just so wrapped up in a false narrative that her self-righteousness and alarm come off as sad rather than principled. She’s far from alone, so...

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RIP: Finbarr Flood 1938-2016

Finbarr Flood was one of my first bosses in Guinness and taught me much of what I have learned about surviving in big business. He had joined the company as a messenger boy aged 14 and also played semi-professional soccer as a...

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Was the Last to Know

It’s been evident for months now that DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is denser than lignum vitae. She should have sensed last fall that she was no longer welcome in her position, even from the Clinton camp which...

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Post GOP Convention Bounce: Trump leads,

I have been writing about bounces since 2008 at openleft.  I wrote the following at bleeding heartland last monday here. The average bounce since 1996 is 6.2 points.  You will see different numbers, though if you read...

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