For the second time in just 16 years, the new President is actually the loser of the national popular vote (click on “Popular Vote”). This is the fifth time this has happened in U.S. history; the last time it happened prior to 2000 was in 1888. As children, we were all taught to believe in […]
by New Deal democrat About an 2 hours ago, Hillary Clinton pulled ahead of Donald Trump in the popular vote, 59.2 M vs. 59.0 M. If this holds up, it will be the second time in five elections that the democrats have won the popular vote but lost the electoral college. I have been saying […]
Via Bill Black at Naked Capitalism and Thomas Frank at the Guardian. What we need to focus on now is the obvious question: what the hell went wrong? What species of cluelessness guided our Democratic leaders as they went about losing what they told us was the most important election of our lifetimes?
Well, I wasn’t planning to post anything today, but I didn’t want y’all to miss this. Yup. Those all-knowing, all-seeing Utah officials.
Who is James K. Kallstrom? Kallstrom is the retired FBI assistant director and frequent Fox News guest who has been orchestrating the “revolt” of FBI agents from the New York field office that led to FBI director Comey’s questionable letter to Congress about emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. He is an enthusiastic supporter of […]
Paul Krugman Verified account@paulkrugman My hope is that soon I can start writing, finally, about what a sensible person in the WH should do, and have anyone myself incl care 4/ Amen. There are a few legal-issues posts I hope to post soon–one in particular. (Although actually I have been posting on legal issues in […]
David Axelrod ✔@davidaxelrod Now Ds who were savaging Comey a few days ago will praise him & GOPers who were behind him will turn on him again. http://wapo.st/2fpVRCL 3:38 PM – 6 Nov 2016 Um … no. No. No: Mark Harris ✔@MarkHarrisNYC “HEY EVERYONE THERE MAY BE A FIRE I’LL CHECK HEY EVERYONE I CHECKED NO […]
If so, Kellyanne Conway is not among you. How many of those spiking early votes by Republicans last week in Colorado, especially, but also in Nevada and Arizona, can be attributed to Comey and the NYC FBI leaker? Apparently, Conway has a pretty damn good idea. So do I. There’s an extremely close contest for […]
Looking at Air Force One @ MIA. Why is he campaigning instead of creating jobs & fixing Obamacare? Get back to work for the American people! 11:19 AM – 3 Nov 2016 — Obama taunts Trump after aides reportedly take his Twitter account, Colin Campbell, Yahoo News, yesterday, quoting a Trump tweet from last Thursday […]
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