The subheading may be excessively positive, but let us consider this as though we were in normal times: A great way to show one’s own success is to let the other guy run things and fail so badly that the contrast becomes clear. This happened with America. When Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the […]
This year’s election is the fourth presidential election since 2000 that was followed by a tidal wave of allegations of fraud or foreign interference. The only exceptions: the 2008 blowout when Republicans nominated a braindead warmonger and the 2012 election when Obama appeared to cleanly beat Romney. Otherwise, every presidential election has been clouded. System […]
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Totally In Control by Nancy Ohanian Hillary didn't seriously contest Ohio. That campaign mindset is how our country was hurled into the pit of fiery hell we've been in for nearly 4 years. Her husband won Ohio both times he ran and so did Obama-- 51.50% to 46.91% against McCain in 2008 and 50.67% to 47.69% against Romney in 2012.
One Ohio legislator told me that watching Householder shovel food into his maw was one of the most disgusting sights she had ever experiencedIt's not nice to call anyone a putrid bag of shit. But Sheldon Silver is a putrid bag of shit. I couldn't cover up the stink if I tried. And we've never tried.
In 2008, Obama's message of "Hope and Change" resonated in Ohio and he took the state, 51.5% to 46.9%. Four years later it was a little closer-- 50.7% to 47.7%-- but Buckeyes were still looking for the change Obama was promising. In 2016, the candidate promising change was Trump, while Hillary represented the status quo of an establishment the Midwest was sick of. Ohio-- like other Midwestern states that had backed Obama-- peeled off and gave Trump the presidency. Hillary took just 43.24% of the vote, a shockingly low number for a swing state.
5-Watt Bulb by Nancy OhanianGetting COVID-19 can be extremely serious to your health, even if you don't die. NPR rerouted yesterday that as the pandemic continues, we're learning more about what it means to survive the disease.
-by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey WassermanFlorida has long been a vortex for stealing elections. Now a Florida-based legal case that is likely to go to the US Supreme Court could once again decide the presidency.The case centers on how our votes will be counted in an election that will be conducted largely with mailed-in paper ballots.
Candice Keller won a seat in the Ohio state House in 2016 to represent an overwhelmingly Republican 89% white district in Butler County (Hamilton, Middletown, Monroe, Oxford and Trenton) north of Cincinnati. The PVI is R+10. Keller is a garden variety right-wing Republican-- an anti-Choice and anti-LGBTQ fanatic and gun nut who denigrates the role of government. On April 28, she was defeated in the Republican primary by state Rep.
Sen. Stephen Huffman: so wrong... on so many levelsIn 1969, my girlfriend Martha and I were driving my VW van through a remote mountainous region of northeastern Morocco, far from the tourist destinations of Marrakech, Fès and Agadir. It was the dangerous bandit-infested, kif-growing Rif region in Al Hoceïma Province near Ketama.
