After consuming as much election analysis as I could bear over the past week, there is not much I can add that hasn’t been exhaustively covered.  Obviously, a big win for Donald Trump and for the country, larger than anyone expected and with many implications for the future of  U. S. politics. I just hope […]

I’m not very good at evaluating political debates, but this one had all the earmarks of a disaster for Donald Trump.  Several have suggested that the debate handlers should be fired.  Good advice, but you can’t fire the candidate!  And everybody who is anybody in the Trump camp has been warning him to leave the […]

75 days to go and hopefully the adults will now take over in the presidential race.  In spite of the Harris honeymoon, I still think it is Trump’s to lose, but he has blown it before and is certainly capable of blowing it again.  The best I have read on it post-convention is from Kimberley […]

Kamala Harris as leader of the free world?  Democrats, are you serious?  What possible qualification of leadership skill sets does she have to receive the slightest consideration as the Democratic Party nominee for President?  Yet over the past twenty-four hours that thought is unfolding before our very eyes as we watch the Democratic Party self-destruct.  […]

I’ll be brief: My only real takeaway from this event occurred in the first 10 minutes of it, which was to be struck by the question, “Is this all we Americans can produce in terms of the selection of the leader of the free world?” Are these two guys really all that we should expect?  […]

I looked back at my personal journal and was reminded that on February 10 I predicted that Joe Biden would not be the nominee of the Democratic Party for President this year.  I still believe that this will be the case.  He is losing on every issue with the possible exception of  abortion, his cognitive […]

I’ve heard enough from both remaining candidates in the Republican primary to suggest that neither one of them has been nearly as definitive as needed about what they would do as President.  Nikki Haley offers a bunch of generalities, some of which are attractive, and Trump continues his grievance, retribution, and insult campaign as he […]

I am nowhere near ready to commit my vote on this, but my thinking is changing based on what I have heard and seen so far, and the two candidates most impressive to me are both in single digits in most polls, namely Mike Pence and Nikki Haley.  Start with Pence.  He can be like […]