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• White House Is In Chaos After A Very Bad Week For Trump

  

  (Caricature of Trump is by the inimitable DonkeyHotey.) Over 70% of the candidates Donald Trump supported lost their election bids. But that was just the start... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hate Crimes Rose More Than 17% In Trump's First Year

  

  The two charts above are from the FBI count of hate crimes in 2017 (the first year of the Trump administration). Note that the number of hate crimes rose by... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democrats Need To Stop Trying To Demonize Pelosi

  

  Nancy Pelosi has always been a good Democrat. She supports the liberal agenda. She is intelligent, knows the House rules better than anyone, and is not afraid t... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Candidates Are On Democratic Minds For 2020 ?

  

  I know it's early (perhaps too early) to be thinking about the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, but I doubt I'm the only one considering it. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• N. Korea Pegged Trump As A Fool And They Played Him

  

  That was Donald Trump's tweet as he returned from meeting with Kim Jong-Un in Singapore. He was convinced (or at least tried to convince us) that he had saved... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The REAL Investigations Will Start In January

  

  (Cartoon image is by Steve Sack in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.) For the last couple of years, Donald Trump (and his cronies in the presidential administration... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 116th Senate Will Look Much Like The 115th Senate

  

  ARIZONA Senate Race FLORIDA Senate Race If you listened to the cable news talking heads on election night, you might think the Republicans scored a huge... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democrats Think Republicans Are Racist (& They're Right)

  

  This chart is from an Axios / SurveyMonkey Poll that was done between October 30th and November 2nd of a national sample of 3,215 adults, with a 3 point margin... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Voters Reject Trumpism (Need To Finish The Job In 2020)

  

  (Cartoon image is by Bob Englehart at cagle.com.) Trump would have you believe that the Republicans did great on election day, and it was completely due to... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Embarrasses Himself (And U.S.) On Trip To Paris

  

  The top and left pictures are from The New York Times, and the right picture is from Facebook. They provide a rather embarrassing portrait of Donald Trump's... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• United States Needs A Bigger House Of Representatives

  

  Does this country need a larger House of Representatives? The editorial board of The New York Times believes we do, and they make a good case for increasing it... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Exit Poll: Demographics Of Voting In Texas Senate Race

  

  These charts are from exit polling by CNN in the race for the Senate in Texas. It shows the percentage of the vote by each demographic group, and the... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Holds Record For Being The Most Joked About

  

  The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University counted up all the jokes told about politicians each year on late night talk shows. In... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Is Still The Most Unpopular President Since WWII

  

  This chart, from fivethirtyeight.com, shows the average poll approval of every president after 659 days in office since World War II. Note that Donald Trump... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Voters Gave Trump An Embarrassing Beating Last Tuesday

  

  (This caricature of Trump is by DonkeyHotey.) After the election last Tuesday, Donald Trump tried to claim it had been a good day for him. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Exit Polls Shows Demographic Breakdown Of 2018 Voting

  

  The following charts (from CNN) show the exit polling for the 2018 congressional election. It shows the percentage of the vote that each group had -- and the... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Voter Percentage Was High In 2018 Midterm Election

  

  According to the United States Election Project, about 47.5% of eligible voters participated in the 2018 midterm election. That may not sound high, but it is th... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gallup's 6 Reasons The Election Turned Out Like It Did

  

  What happened in the 2018 election? Why did it turn out the way it did. The people over at the Gallup Poll give us 6 factors they believe affected the election. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Beto For President In 2020? It's NOT A Crazy Idea

  

  Beto O'Rourke lost his bid to unseat Ted Cruz in the Texas race for the U.S. Senate. But he made it a much closer race than any Democrat has done in a... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Another Mass Shooting - The 307th In The U.S. This Year

  

  We had another mass shooting in the news yesterday. This one (again by a homegrown white male) was in Thousand Oaks, California -- where the gunman killed 12... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY