Eric Black Ink

“What the hell happened to Lindsey Graham?” is the very good headline on a very good BuzzFeed piece on a question that I’ve wondered about myself.

Gallup’s new report began with the news that respondents are more divided along partisan lines on the question of Donald Trump approval than on any previous president.

“That’s stupid,” President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday.

Sometimes the conservative columnist hits him harder than the lefties do, as in Tuesday’s column, headlined: “Trump’s pitiful powerlessness.”

The last month has been the worst for the Trumpian approval picture in quite a while.

From Gail Collins’ snide but funny review of President Trump’s big/small/heavy-snorting televised address on the shutdown, headlined “Trump hits the wall”: Now we know why Trump never made a speech from the Oval Office before. He’s a guy whose great political talent is yelling applause lines to a howling mob of supporters. If they cheer, […]

Chris Wallace made some serious hash out of Sanders’ effort to invoke the threat of terrorism as one of the justifications for the Trump-beloved border wall-fence-barrier-curtain.

I use the term “impeached” precisely, by which I mean the first step in the constitutional process for removal of a president, the one that occurs in the U.S. House and requires only a majority vote.

I reached two wise Minnesota-based political scientists who follow this stuff closely and asked what they expected to see during the next two years of re-divided government.

Nathan Gonzales of “Inside Elections,” writes that turnout in the midterms “was nearly 50 percent of the voting-eligible population.” He sees a potential 73 percent turnout in ’20.