Can California Republicans avoid the disaster that the Donald Trump candidacy and their own collapsing party registration suggest is in store for them next week? The latest statewide polling suggests that maybe they just might, but it is a very uncertain maybe. Since California has very little ticket splitting, GOP candidates must depend on the […]
This week large numbers of mail in ballots will begin arriving at county election offices, and shortly we may be able to answer the perplexing unknowns of this dismal election, who is going to vote and will Democratic dreams of an enormous landslide be realized. Neither presidential candidate is running a real campaign right now; […]
The great Republican national nightmare is at hand: Donald Trump may indeed carry them all down to defeat. The fear that Republicans have expressed, very sotto voce of course, is that Trump would show himself in the first debate as woefully unprepared to be president – because he lacked the discipline to prepare for the […]
Among California’s great strengths is that our local government offices are nonpartisan, unlike many states where partisan politics dominates at the local level. But once in a while aspects of our Progressive Era reforms come under attack; and that is the case with Senate Bill 958 currently on Gov. Brown’s desk. It is a bill […]
Hillary Clinton’s diagnosis of pneumonia, followed by her near collapse at Sunday’s 9/11 remembrance, followed by her dismissal of Trump supporters as a basketful of deplorable racists, followed by a dismal performance at Matt Lauer’s NBC veterans’ forum last week all lead to one conclusion: Donald Trump’s probable election as president in November, and the crisis that […]
In the final days of the legislative session the Democratic leadership will do everything it can to increase poverty within California. That is the consequence of its fixation of fighting global climate change and saving the state’s faltering cap and trade program. These actions only add to poverty in California, a reality everyone knows and […]
A truism of American politics is that if you play around with race or religion you will get burned. Donald Trump has played both the race and religion card, and if current polling is to be believed; opinion has hardened against him in the past two weeks and he is headed for a thumping defeat. […]
The possibility that Donald Trump might win the presidency has set off high decibels of hysteria among the political establishment, and no more so than in blue California. Despite an historic level of unpopularity in California, it is quite possible Trump could be elected. The media and political establishment are already musing about what it […]
One year from now the leaders of the Free World could well be two men born in New York with weird orange hair, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and American President Donald Trump. You don’t think so, well look at the Brexit results and what you see is the dance of The Boris and The […]
As Donald Trump raises his right hand to assume the presidency next January 20, one word will explain how it all happened: Orlando. What occurred early in the morning of June 12 in this usually quiet central Florida city – the greatest mass killing in American history – is going to reverberate through our presidential politics […]
