Year: 2016

Why Trump Wins the Pissing Matches

I’m not a fan of Robert Gates and I could write a pretty savage piece on his record going back to the Reagan administration. But, when he was nominated to replace Donald Rumsfeld, I stuck up for him against that kind of...

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Don’t Blame the Media or the People

Look, I know as well as the next person that the American public, much like the Cookie Monster, likes boobs more than position papers on banking, and I like Matt Taibbi (I really do), but his latest article is a piece of shit...

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The 24/7 Sneeze Factor

Hillary Clinton is recovering from a mild case of pneumonia. However, shortly after she collapsed at Ground Zero while part of the 15th annual memorial of 9/11, her campaign staff said she was just exhausted and suffered heat...

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And Now It’s Of the Earth

Trump should stop doing a lot of things, but probably at the top of the list is making allusions to people possibly killing his opponent. That I even have to point this out is disturbing. And, now, some...

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State Polling Summary: Trump’s first lead

In 1996 I started comparing the swing in state polling to national polling.  And it was odd: the state polling never shows as big a lead as the national polling did, and in ’96 polling pretty badly missed on the high...

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