Year: 2016

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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Clinton’s issue with trust – in 60 seconds

So on CBS tonight Clinton is asked about the emails.  She says she had not read them. Does anyone actually believe that is true?  Seriously?  The damaging e-mail take 10 seconds to read.  Are you seriously...

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The Right Makes More Interesting Reading

It’s kind of odd that most of the at least modestly interesting stuff I read on the right is fratricidal while the most insufferably boring stuff being produced on the left is fratricidal. This isn’t because I have a...

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Lessons from the Trump-a-Thon

by Walter Brasch The four day Trump-a-thon, sometimes noted as the Republican National Convention, ended this week in Cleveland, with the Republican party still divided and Donald Trump’s ego inflated larger than a...

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