“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” * One of the first childhood nursery rhymes I can recall learning is this famous example dating from 1731 in England, sung to a French melody from 1761. It seems appropriate to use childhood phrasing in this season of Trump driven intellectual (non) rigor. Its use here however is not for… Continue reading Trump’s Finances: $100 Million Three Bags Full (November 3, 2016)
Category: Campaign Strategy
Trump’s TV Ads: Still Broken Trifecta (November 1, 2016) Third Iteration
The gold standard source for monitoring Presidential campaign TV ad spending remains the data provided by CMAG/Kantar Media on a weekly basis. CMAG/Kantar Media is like the Nielsen Ratings for campaign TV. A full accounting for our purposes is provided by the Associated Press (AP) wire service and found here: CMAG/Kantar Media Presidential Campaign TV… Continue reading Trump’s TV Ads: Still Broken Trifecta (November 1, 2016) Third Iteration
Trump’s TV Ads: More Broken Promises (October 29, 2016) Update
The gold standard source for monitoring Presidential campaign TV ad spending remains the data provided by CMAG/Kantar Media on a weekly basis. CMAG/Kantar Media is like the Nielsen Ratings for campaign TV. A full accounting for our purposes is provided by the Associated Press (AP) wire service and found here: 2016 Presidential TV Ad Spending… Continue reading Trump’s TV Ads: More Broken Promises (October 29, 2016) Update
Trump’s Campaign Finances: Willie Sutton Has Left the Building (October 28, 2016)
The original Trump version of the Mr. Political Clean storyline was his promise to frustrated Americans that he would self-fund his campaign for President, as he is so fabulously wealthy and not beholden. He didn’t need or want any financial assistance to run for office as a public service for his country. So, he could… Continue reading Trump’s Campaign Finances: Willie Sutton Has Left the Building (October 28, 2016)
Trump’s Nostalgia: Ads When America Was Great (October 24, 2016)
Trump’s main campaign slogan for the last 18 months has been MAGA (Make America Great Again). No great surprise that he has also been more than a little sketchy about just when exactly in the past that might have been. We know that Trump is not a deep intellectual thinker, nor a fan of history,… Continue reading Trump’s Nostalgia: Ads When America Was Great (October 24, 2016)
Trump’s TV Ads: Broken Promises to the Faithful (October 18, 2016)
The gold standard source for monitoring Presidential campaign TV ad spending is data provided by CMAG/Kantar Media on a weekly basis. CMAG/Kantar Media is like the Nielsen Ratings for campaign TV. A full accounting for our purposes is provided by the Associated Press (AP) wire service and found here: Presidential Ad Spending The data was… Continue reading Trump’s TV Ads: Broken Promises to the Faithful (October 18, 2016)
Trump: Crumbs On the Table III (October 13, 2016)
The Trump news equivalent of donut holes and other morsels of Trumpitude, refreshed daily. The Daily Sweepings from out of the ether on Thursday, October 13, 2016: Crumb the First Witnessing Trump’s Clinical Decompensation and Psychic Blow Up http://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497850278/trump-threatens-to-sue-the-new-york-times-over-sex-abuse-allegations?ft=nprml&f The whirling dervish that is Donald J. Trump spun ever-faster on Thursday, shredding almost everything in… Continue reading Trump: Crumbs On the Table III (October 13, 2016)
Trump: Crumbs On the Table II (October 12, 2016)
The Trump news equivalent of donut holes and other morsels of Trumpitude, refreshed daily. The Daily Sweepings from out of the ether on Wednesday, October 12, 2016: Crumb the First God Doesn’t Need Mike Pence to Be Trump’s Forgiveness Intermediary http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/12/mike-pence-liberty-trump-forgive/91948768/ Mike Pence had a message Wednesday for evangelical Christians: They should forgive Donald Trump.… Continue reading Trump: Crumbs On the Table II (October 12, 2016)
Trump’s Mauve Gallery; A Tour Update (October 11, 2016)
Our last tour through the Mauve Polling Gallery, with works based on the brushwork of the HuffPost Pollster was on September 11. We return a month later to see how the wall hung graphics have fared with time. Sharp eyes required. Review the previous September guided tour here. Please recall that the great advantage of… Continue reading Trump’s Mauve Gallery; A Tour Update (October 11, 2016)
Trump’s Place In Natural History: An Ancient Piscine Ancestor (October 9, 2016)
There has been no known Trump fish species identified by biologists before now. Occasional scattered reports have surfaced in the past year or so, of sightings of several kinds of Trump fish in the wild. All of these have been nearly conclusively identified as masquerading Blob fish or Puffer fish variants upon closer investigation. Or… Continue reading Trump’s Place In Natural History: An Ancient Piscine Ancestor (October 9, 2016)