Traditionally, the real presidential election season every four years in America begins with the Labor Day holiday. This election year Labor Day fell on Monday September 5. The slower summer vacation time is past, and voter interest in serious political matters intensifies. This election season has been unusual in so many respects, it is hard… Continue reading Trump Real Clear Results: Poll of Polls (October 5, 2016)
Category: Campaign Strategy
Donald Trump & Mark Cuban: Billionaire Bro Fight (September 25, 2016)
Mark Cuban, a fellow billionaire, has been invited to attend the presidential debate on Monday. His attendance at the debate has gotten Trump all hot under the collar, and he’s developed an itch elsewhere. For those who don’t know much about him, Mark Cuban is younger (age 58 vs. Trump’s 70), fitter, prettier, sports much… Continue reading Donald Trump & Mark Cuban: Billionaire Bro Fight (September 25, 2016)
Trump’s Battleground States Prospects: A Gallery in Mauve (September 11, 2016)
Selected Shades of Mauve The color Mauve is a happy scientific accident we owe to an enterprising young British chemist, a failed search for a malaria cure, and the powerful chemical properties inherent in byproducts of coal tar derivatives. A witches brew of beauty and profit. More below.* British Chemist, William Henry Perkin, Aged 18… Continue reading Trump’s Battleground States Prospects: A Gallery in Mauve (September 11, 2016)
Trump: Don the Con Plays Stump the Chumps (September 6, 2016)
Trump’s Latest Immigration Song and Dance From Reuters (September 5, 2016): Trump softens again: Raising possibility of eventual legal status for undocumented immigrants by Steve Holland In a new twist to his immigration proposals, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held out the possibility of legal status for millions of illegal immigrants, but only after… Continue reading Trump: Don the Con Plays Stump the Chumps (September 6, 2016)
Trump: Fibs and the Fibbing Fibbers Who Fib Them (August 31, 2016)
The Literary Inspiration for This Title The title of this post is a gentle adaptation of a 2003 best-selling satirical book by Al Franken,* who was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota in 2008, and re-elected in 2014. Franken was a prominent cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live for almost 15 years,… Continue reading Trump: Fibs and the Fibbing Fibbers Who Fib Them (August 31, 2016)
Trump & Louisiana’s August Floods: American Disaster Porn (August 22, 2016)
Louisiana Underwater The rains began last Thursday, August 11. By Saturday, here in Baton Rouge we had endured 24 inches of rain from the continuous storm. Rivers and creeks were flooding at levels seen less than once in a century (maybe once every 500 years; until now the new normal). By Monday 30,000 people had… Continue reading Trump & Louisiana’s August Floods: American Disaster Porn (August 22, 2016)
Trump: Cardboard Christian (August 14, 2016)
In the last two weeks Trump has made a renewed call to “the Evangelicals” for their support as he vows to protect and support Christian rights in the United States. This is not his first rodeo with the more explicitly political among their brothers and sisters, despite the large segments of this religious group who… Continue reading Trump: Cardboard Christian (August 14, 2016)
Trump’s Rally Crowd Tracker: Massive Projections (June 18, 2016)
As the pre-general election campaign intensifies before the two national party conventions in July (Republicans in Cleveland July 18-21 and Democrats in Philadelphia July 25-28), Trump’s intended tactical strategies are becoming much clearer. He will ignore traditional political wisdom and advice. He does not want to focus on a traditional get out the vote ground… Continue reading Trump’s Rally Crowd Tracker: Massive Projections (June 18, 2016)
Trump and the Hackensack Challenge: GOP’s Down Ballot Sinkhole (June 11, 2016)
Trump has been engaged in a two week rant about unfair treatment imposed on him by a Federal District judge in California, who was born in Indiana, first appointed to the bench in California by Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007 (San Diego County Superior Court), and who happens to be of Hispanic heritage. Trump… Continue reading Trump and the Hackensack Challenge: GOP’s Down Ballot Sinkhole (June 11, 2016)
Trump and Military Service: A 100 Year Family History (June 6, 2016)
Frederick Trump (1869-1918) m. 1902; Age (1898) 29 Fred Trump (1905-1999) m. 1936 c 1937, 1938; Age (1940) 35 Donald Trump (6/14/1046-present) m. 1977; Age (1964) 18 Military Service: Frederick (None), Fred (None), Donald (None) We have just celebrated Memorial Day for 2016, so military service to our country is freshly relevant.* In honoring America’s… Continue reading Trump and Military Service: A 100 Year Family History (June 6, 2016)