The Dominoes continue to fall as the Trump Transition Team creates openings by filling them. With RNC Chairman Reince Priebus tapped to become White House Chief of Staff, the Republican National Committee will be searching for a new Chairman. Politico outlines the many possibilities this morning, seeming to name the favorites as David Bossie, Matt
This week’s Courier Herald column: In last week’s column, I suggested that in the grand scheme of things, Tuesday’s election was not that important. I wrote it Friday before the election. I wrote it in the one quiet time I had that week, fully expecting it to reach a disappointed Republican audience last week. I
The following was posted to Facebook by Rick Day. He’s a long time commenter here, and was a delegate to Philadelphia for Bernie Sanders. I’ll likely follow up next week with some thoughts from a Republican perspective, but it’s probably best you guys hear from a Democrat on this first. I just want to type
A lot of folks (and me) didn’t give the possibility of “President Trump” a lot of serious thought. Sure, we talked about it in theory, but there are a lot of folks who are going to have to get up to speed on a transition that is already underway. This transition should be kind to
The magnitude of this upset is stunning. It’s frankly going to take a while to set in. For some of us, more than others. Beware of media narratives that put this in partisan tones. Yes, Republicans made a clean sweep (White House, Senate, House). But if you choose to view this election in purely partisan
At roughly 2:40am EST, CNN’s Dana Bash reported that Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump to concede. It’s not something that many people thought possible as early as yesterday morning. “Upset” barely conveys the meaning. I wrote this week’s column expecting a different result. The meaning is the same. At the risk of sounding like a
As those of you who know me understand, I didn’t end up “this way” by accident. The sickness that is a morbid fascination with current events and politics was instilled in me early. I come from a family that was not politically connected or even politically active beyond civic participation. That said, I was raised
There’s a lot being voted on across the country today. These are a few of the things that will have my attention: President: That’s the big one of course. I wrote a bit about it yesterday. TL;DR version: Watching Florida, as age demographics say “Trump”, but I’m told 1/3 of Hispanic voters there are new
Wait. What? That can’t be right. For those of you who are new here, I’ve long since given up my “pundit” title. I have no crystal ball. I don’t claim to have one. I avoid predictions on elections whenever possible. And yet, here we are, on election eve, and the Real Clear Politics map with
