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Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on August 03, 2020 51 Comments
It's like 2016 all over again in almost every.single.way. but also with riots and a global pandemic (thanks, China). Over the weekend, April Ryan, a political analyst for CNN suggested that if Biden wins, America would be watching a split screen in which Trump would be dragged out of the White House over his refusal to leave.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2020 78 Comments
So maybe as early as next week Joe Biden will announce who he is picking to be his vice presidential nominee. Or more precisely, the vice president nominee will be picked, Biden will be informed, will come to believe he made the choice, and will appear in front of a camera with a note written in large crayon with the person's name.

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 28, 2020 49 Comments
Joe Biden said today that he would announce his choice of running mate next week. Politico appears to have jumped the gun, explaining in an article why Biden chose Kamala Harris, a detail they quickly deleted and then updated. Luckily, some people on Twitter caught the detail before it was changed.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2020 30 Comments
There are few people who have contributed to the Trump Derangement Syndrome gripping half the nation than Joe Scarborough of MSNBC. Along with this co-host, guests, and other hosts at MSNBC, Scarborough fed the anti-Trump movement an almost four-year diet of paranoia and conspiracy theories.

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 22, 2020 53 Comments
Anyone who remembers the 2016 Republican primary knows that former Ohio Governor John Kasich loves nothing more than the sound of his own voice. So it should come as no surprise that he is ditching his allegiance to the Republicans in order to speak at the Democratic National Convention in support of Joe Biden. Do you think he'll mention that his father was a mailman?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 17, 2020 32 Comments
Why do so many people, Democrat and Republican alike, assume that felons released from prison will vote Democrat, and that a Florida ballot initiative that passed in 2018, restoring voting to ex-felons, would help Democrats? It's not clear that's true, at least not to the extent people assume.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 05, 2020 79 Comments
European mainstream media were united in their condemnation of U.S. President Donald Trump's Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore. The coverage in the mainstream German, French, and British news outlets echoed each other, describing the speech as 'dark,' 'polarizing,' and 'divisive.'

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 21, 2020 76 Comments
I tend to avoid writing about socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) because I find her intensely off-putting on any number of levels. But her bizarre victory dance over the questionable claim that TikTok users sabotaged President Trump's Tulsa rally seems worth addressing.
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