This year, individual SC votes will actually MATTER!
Tweet On that earlier post, I failed to point out the most remarkable thing about that PPP poll showing HIllary Clinton in a statistical dead heat with Donald Trump in South Carolina. It’s a fairly...
View ArticleDo you think critics have been too rough on Trump voters?
TweetAn image from the Trump campaign website of a rally in Fayetteville. Who’s to blame — Trump, or all those thousands cheering him? William McGurn, writing in The Wall Street Journal today, thinks...
View ArticleTrump’s huge, but not ‘massive,’ problem with Catholics
TweetCatholics were the first to feel nativist nastiness: Bill ‘the Butcher’ and his Know-Nothing pals in ‘Gangs of New York’ First, a bit of pedantry. My first boss in the newspaper business after...
View ArticleA lot of Trump voters think he’s horrible, too
Tweet Just a heads-up that you might want to read Chris Cillizza’s post, “The 13 most amazing findings in the 2016 exit poll.” As I’m sure y’all realize, exit polls are the most valuable kind, in terms...
View ArticleFinally, House GOP set to do what America does NOT want it to do
TweetBasically, they’re trying to undo what this signature did. They say Speaker Ryan has the votes now: House Republicans are set to pass a controversial plan to revise key parts of the Affordable...
View ArticleNice try at seeming balanced, senator — but you failed
TweetBack in the late ’80s, when The State had money for such things, my duties as governmental affairs editor included supervising the South Carolina Poll (at least, I think that’s what we called it —...
View ArticleJFK and RFK worried, a little, about poll drop to 70 percent
TweetThis was the image on the screen as we heard Bobby say, “God… the poll…” The last couple of mornings during my workouts, I’ve been watching the Netflix documentary series, “Bobby Kennedy for...
View ArticleI’m almost as tired of the Mueller saga as Mueller is
TweetThe first screen of The Post’s homepage was all Mueller… At one point this morning, I Tweeted this: For awhile, I’ve been glancing occasionally across the room to a screen showing the Mueller...
View ArticlePolls indicate Trump remains competitive in key states. Oh, yeah: And if...
Tweet Tonight I got a fund-raising text from Joe Biden that reminded me that I meant to share with y’all something I saw in The New York Times this morning. The text said: BREAKING: A New York Times...
View ArticleThe world according to Elizabeth Warren
Tweet I couldn’t miss the huge banner ad that Google Adsense had placed on my blog. Intrigued, I did a work-around to check out what she was trying to get me to look at. (If I click on an Adsense ad,...
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