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Election was about Trump

At rally in Wisconsin the day before the election, President Trump was talking about the choice between him and Joe Biden. He started to say, "This isn't about ..." and then stopped himself and said, "Yeah, it is about me." He was right. The election was about him. As of this writing, it wasn't assured that Joe Biden would win, but it seemed likely. Regardless, one result is clear. Republicans did very, very well in this election despite the fact that the party-defining person at the top of the ticket was extremely unpopular. Republicans gained seats in the House when every pundit ...

Observations on the election

First, this was not a good week for conventional polling. My review in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal of a book on the history of "polling failures" took perhaps too positive a view of contemporary polling. I find it remarkable that polling has been as accurate as it has been in a country where the completion rate for pollsters' contacts is below 10% — but it got worse this week. The Real Clear Politics average of recent polls showed Joe Biden with more than 51% of the popular vote and Donald Trump with 44%. As this is written, Biden has 50% of the tabulated national popular vote, which ...

Random thoughts for 2020

What was my Election Day prediction? That I'd be drunk by midnight. No matter what happens with the presidency, it appears, as of this writing, that Republicans have a good shot at retaining control of the Senate. So, goodbye to the "Squad"-driven left-wing agenda under a Biden presidency, especially now that President Donald Trump has given the Republicans a pair of cashews. MSNBC host Joy Reid, a Black woman, actually referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "Uncle Clarence" while insinuating Thomas is a lackey of the Republican Party. Reid's woke on-set colleagues, ...

Trump should have easily lost

As I write this, we don't know the winner of the 2020 presidential race. By the time you read it, we still may not know. There are votes to be counted. What seems very apparent, though, is that Democrats did not enjoy the romp that they and some political prognosticators had expected. They were running against the much-disliked President Donald Trump during a public health crisis and spreading economic despair. Joe Biden made a few mistakes, but he was fine as a candidate. His problem is his party, what Democrats seem to stand for in the eyes of too many. And those impressions are ...

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Biden, Harris are socialists

On the night before Halloween, Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted a video of a socialist sermon he delivered to "The Squad" of new socialist congresswomen, touting a "Green New Deal" and the banning of private health insurance to have a "Medicare for All" system. Their goal is to make Biden the most socialist president imaginable — or, in safer terminology, "the most progressive president since FDR." Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, signed on to Bernie's socialist health-care bill in the Senate and proposed a Climate Equity Act with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So, it is ...