With his stunning blowout victory tonight in the Nevada caucuses, billionaire Donald Trump has now won three contests in a row in the derby to be the 2016 Republican nominee for president. Trump won with a staggering 46% of the vote, 22 points better than second place finisher Marco Rubio (24%), with Ted Cruz coming […]
Thoughts on this past Saturday’s GOP Debate
The Republican debate this past Saturday in South Carolina began with a somber moment of silence in honor of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away earlier in the day. What transpired in the ensuing two hours was anything but somber: it was the most vicious cage match in this continuing reality show drama […]
Big Wins for Bernie and The Donald
Tonight the citizens of New Hampshire made their collective voices loud and clear: as far as they’re concerned, politics as usual is over. The Live Free or Die state voters rendered a decisive result by conferring landslide victories upon the two biggest outsider candidates in the race, the self-funded billionaire Donald Trump and the self-described […]
Previewing Tuesday’s New Hampshire Primary
On Tuesday, nearly 600,000 residents of New Hampshire are expected to go to the polls and cast their mark behind one of the 11 Republican or Democratic candidates running for President of the United States. In this brief post, I’ll handicap the likely results. What’s fascinating about tomorrow’s primary is that the outcome is so […]
Cruz takes down Trump; Photo Finish for the Dems
After over six months of debates and punditry, real human beings actually had the opportunity to support presidential candidates tonight and the results are…. — Ted Cruz was the definitive winner of the Iowa caucuses, besting Donald Trump by 4 points (28% to 24%), with Marco Rubio finishing 3rd (barely) at 23%. — Hillary Clinton […]
Previewing the Iowa Caucuses
Well sports fans, the games finally begin on Monday with the Iowa caucuses. Hundreds of thousands of residents of the Hawkeye State will see endless political advertisements cease and will have the opportunity to officially put their marks behind their preferred candidate to be the President of the United States. In this post, I’m going […]
Trump Dumps the Fox News Debate
Has Donald Trump finally put his foot in his mouth in such a way that his campaign for the presidency starts to sink? That’s the question on the minds of the tens of millions of Republican voters around the USA that are weighing the decision about whether to support a traditional politician or to back the […]
Palin Endorses Trump: Does it Matter?
She’s baaaaaaack! Today Donald Trump received by far the most significant endorsement for his campaign for the presidency from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. In a well-scripted event in Ames, Iowa, televised live on all three major cable networks, the 2008 GOP nominee for vice-president delivered an enthusiastic seal of approval for the billionaire front-runner […]
The First Debates of 2016
Pre-season is almost over in the 2016 Presidential campaign with the Iowa caucuses debuting the voting season in just two weeks, on Monday, February 1st. Last night, the Democrats had their final debate before the voting beings while the Republicans had their first debate of the month last Thursday, with another one coming in 10 […]
Griffey and Piazza: The Hall of Fame Class of 2016
Congratulations to Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, who today were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and will have their plaques revealed during their induction ceremony this summer in Cooperstown, New York. In order to be elected to the Hall, a candidate must supported by at least 75% of the voters from the […]