Leaked internal poll must have especially alarmed Trump
It showed Joe Biden, the current leading Democratic candidate, clobbering Trump in several states that Trump has to win to have a chance of winning a second term.
Eric Black Ink
The ‘Post Power Pundits’ is dumb. And totally irresistible.
I recognize the silliness of pundits trying to predict who will be the nominee a year a half before the Iowa caucuses. But I can’t help myself.
On the words ‘socialism,’ ‘fascism,’ and their political use in elections
Are we incapable of having a national conversation about the boundary between things the government does and things that are better left to the free market without resorting to name-calling and/or red-baiting?
Why you shouldn’t be paying attention to Iowa polling right now (even if you can’t help yourself)
Current polls of Iowans’ preferences should be viewed with something stronger than caution.
Courageous congressional pioneer Jeannette Rankin would be 139 today
Rankin was an unwavering feminist and pacifist. She served two terms in the U.S. House – 22 years apart, on the eve of World War I and then again on the eve of World War II.
Fact-Checker gives us the latest on Trump’s false or misleading claims
“President Trump has made 10,796 false or misleading claims over 869 days,” the Washington Post’s fact-checking operation reports.
The split among Democrats on ‘electability’ has a lot to do with age
Democrats age 18-49 were much more evenly split on the purity vs. electability divide than older party voters.
Without naming Trump, Romney takes on his dissing of U.S. allies
A lot of people don’t know this (as Donald Trump likes to say, when he has just learned something that a lot of people already know), but Mitt Romney despises Donald Trump, except when he pretends not to.
Trump’s approval rating: As always, bad but stable
Fivethirtyeight.com’s average of many polls shows an insignificant rise in the president’s approval (to 41.6 percent).
Trump’s tax cut impact: $1 of benefit for every $20 of revenue loss
Tax cuts for the rich and corporations are great, for the rich and corporations. The national debt is growing at rates not seen since World War II.
Franken re-emerges in speech to Jewish Family Service of St. Paul
Franken’s Sunday speech was smart, funny, autobiographical, emotional, logical, fact-filled and liberal as hell.
The adorable, hilarious and maybe tragic way the Federalist papers addressed impeachment
In Federalist No. 65, Alexander Hamilton, writing under the pseudonym Publius, decided to discuss the question of why the framers would arrange for a president, once impeached by the House, to be tried by the Senate.
Mueller gives a glorious demonstration of what honest, nonpartisan law enforcement looks like
In an era of almost total partisanship in all matters, this was refreshing to me. To others, on either side of the Great Trump Divide, his appearance was no doubt frustrating.
FiveThirtyEight pegs Trump’s polling approval at 41.1%
The political numbers gurus at the fivethirtyeight.com website say the adjusted average of recent credible polls was: 41.1 percent approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president; 54.0 percent disapprove.
Another great question from the Trump-Pence committee
The “poll” has a title, of course. It’s called “The Official End the Witch Hunt Poll.”
Delaying Tubman image on $20 bill has all the hallmarks of Trumpism
Among the possible factors: racism, sexism, pettiness, egotism, arbitrariness, base-pandering, hatred of and obsession with Barack Obama.
Exploring the argument for opening an impeachment inquiry
Part of the excuse being used by the administration to deny cooperation with any further congressional inquiry into potential crimes and misdemeanors is that Congress lacks a valid “legislative purpose” for the witnesses and materials it seeks.
How does Trumpism stack up as a crisis historically?
After reading Greg Weiner’s attempt to put things into perspective, I must confess that the crisis pales in comparison to some we have somehow survived.
No Trump support emerges in rousing Temple Israel event with Van Jones and Ana Navarro
Democrat Van Jones and Republican Ana Navarro, both former political operatives now often seen as commentators on CNN, shared the stage with moderator Sam Kaplan.
Powerful new ‘Frontline’ doc details the partisanization of the U.S. Supreme Court
The title, “Supreme Revenge,” could have been “McConnell’s Revenge.”