What’s the Difference Between ISIS, ISS, and ISI? In honor of my favorite feature on Sunday morning radio, NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle hosted by Chief Puzzle Master Will Shortz*, here is a presidential foreign policy quiz. Need a hint? All three are foreign organizations outside United States, they all contribute to increasing the US… Continue reading Trump’s Presidential Quiz: Does He Know the Difference? (October 30, 2016)
Month: October 2016
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’s Weekly Progress: RCP Data Pile-Up (October 10-16, 2016)
Introduction Recap Starting October 10, we can expect there will be multiple General Election and State Specific Preference Polls released each day. Adapted from the published data presented by the RealClearPolitics crew, we can offer a Dow Jones like summary Index of the latest polling results every day. Like the Dow Jones Index we will… Continue reading Trump’s Weekly Progress: RCP Data Pile-Up (October 10-16, 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’s Progress: RCP Daily Presidential Polls Stock Ticker (October 16, 2016) Update
We are fast approaching the climax of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The final results are less than 30 days away. From now until November 8, we can expect there will be multiple General Election and State Specific Preference Polls released each day. Adapted from the published data presented by the RealClearPolitics crew, we can… Continue reading Trump’s Progress: RCP Daily Presidential Polls Stock Ticker (October 16, 2016) Update
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)