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Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2023 9:20:12 GMT -8
Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?
I Declare the War is Over
The new survey finds that what was once a two-man race for the nomination has collapsed into a lopsided contest in which Trump, for now, has no formidable challenger. The former president is the top choice of 59% of GOP primary voters, up 11 percentage points since April, when the Journal tested a slightly different field of potential and declared candidates.
Trump’s lead over his top rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has nearly doubled since April to 46 percentage points. At 13% support, DeSantis is barely ahead of the rest of the field, none of whom has broken out of single-digit support.
But the Race Isn't
“It is a sad reality that the race could be this close given Trump’s position, but it is. And I think it’s very clear that Trump can win this race if the election was tomorrow,” the Democratic pollster Andrew Baumann told me.
Political operatives and scientists agree on one key reason Biden and Trump remain so closely paired in a potential rematch: In our polarized political era, far fewer voters than in the past are open to switching sides for any reason.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2023 9:23:26 GMT -8
You Don't Need to Go See Scary Movies. Reality is Scary EnoughDonald Trump is deeply unpopular outside his base and is facing multiple criminal investigations that could land him in jail. But...he could also win the 2024 US presidential election Here's how: But Trump shifted America’s Republican political landscape. His party is now within the Land of Authoritarian Politics. This is the world I’ve studied for more than a decade, from Madagascar to Belarus and Thailand—and now in the United States. In that world, rational choice models fall apart. They’re comically bad at predicting events, because voters will repeatedly cling to a single charismatic individual even if they lose. Policy becomes secondary to personality. And when the charismatic authoritarian leader of the movement lashes himself to the mast of unpopular policies (such as bans on abortion or trying to undermine the integrity of elections), the broader movement stays lashed together right there with him, ignoring the siren calls of pundits who howl about electability. How Trump Could Win
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2023 9:26:13 GMT -8
In Case You Have Forgotten What a Real Newsman Looks Like
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2023 9:31:34 GMT -8
In the Days of Record Heat and Massive Fires, Is "Burning Man" Really a Great Name for a "Festival"?
"Drowning" Man May Be Better
Nevada officials are investigating a death at the Burning Man festival site after rainstorms left tens of thousands of festivalgoers in the desert under a shelter-in-place order on Saturday.
The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office announced that the death occurred during the rain event but gave “few details,” not announcing the identity of the person that died or a cause of death, according to NBC News.
The announcement arrives after rainstorms reduced the Nevada desert to an enormous, impassable mud pit.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2023 9:34:29 GMT -8
The Secret Meeitings Not-Secret Meeting
“House Judiciary led by Chair Jim Jordan sent a letter to AG Garland asking why did special counsel — also it looks like you are on this letter and Ways and Means Chair Smith, why did, you know, special counsel Jack Smith’s top aide, Jay Bratt, meet repeatedly with the Biden White House before indictments were handed down and deliver and pushed through by Jack Smith? So what’s going on there??
In March, Jay Bratt met with the 23-year-old assistant-level staffer, Caroline Saba, who works in the White House Counsel’s Office. It was not a secret. The meeting was publicly listed in the White House visitor logs and involved no decision-makers. Its purpose was to facilitate an interview between the FBI Agent, Danielle Ray (also noted in the visitor logs), and a Trump-era White House Counsel Office staffer. Saba was there because a member of the Counsel Office sits in on all interviews of White House employees by law enforcement. Note: Saba is not a lawyer. Her role was that of an assistant, ensuring everyone had found the meeting room and had something to drink.
The NY Post offered this clincher: “Nine weeks later, Trump was indicted by Smith’s office on June 8, 2023.” As everyone knows, when one thing happens nine weeks after another, it is proof positive that the earlier event caused the latter.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2023 9:35:05 GMT -8
Who Won the Week?
Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, for winning their defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani
Simone Biles, for winning a record eighth U.S. Gymnastics Championship, 10 years after her first win
Ukraine, for impressive progress during its counteroffensive, and driving Russia bonkers with drones made of cardboard and rubber bands
President Biden: puts 10 meds on price-chopping block for Medicare recipients; amends labor rule to make 3 million more workers eligible for overtime pay; keeps tabs on Maui fires and Idalia hurricane damage
Fabian Nelson, 38, who won his runoff election and will become the first openly-gay state legislator in Mississippi
Pope Francis, for rightly calling out American conservative Catholics as "backwards" for putting the MAGA political ideology over faith
The Department of Health and Human Services, for recommending that the government ease restrictions on marijuana by removing it from the list of Schedule I drugs
The editors of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of UNC Chapel Hill, for their gripping Aug. 30 front page filled with text messages sent out by students during the active-shooter lockdown
El Segundo, CA Little League, the winners of the Little League World Series Championship with a with a 6-5 win over Curaçao
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