Five Days Out: Can Republicans Survive?
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 […]
Unconventional Wisdom: Election Pre-mortem
It certainly seems appropriate that disgraced former Congressmember Anthony Weiner is surfacing in the middle of the latest Presidential campaign kerfuffle. After all, the dominant themes of this fracas have been sex and emails. Will this latest soap opera episode qualify as an October surprise that will completely upend the race? Probably not, although it […]
Betting Elections & Consequences of Overlapping Taxes
Betting the Election Polls are fine in trying to determine potential election results but the smart money may be a better barometer of election outcomes. Smart money is a term used in professional sports betting for the bettors who do better research and supposedly have better knowledge of the field in which they bet on the outcomes. And, yes, […]
Raising the White Flag to the “Tax and Spend” Interests Behind Prop. 55
There are some who believe that the passage of Prop. 55 is inevitable, the measure can’t be beat. Maybe these folks have been right all along. But maybe they have really been just too afraid to take a strong stand against Prop. 55, for fear of fighting a losing battle. However, I would argue that […]
California’s Attempt at Fleecing Shoppers
California is known for having some of the most stringent consumer protection laws in the nation. Nonetheless, the state’s fight against the fleecing of consumers apparently ended when Senate Bill 270, a statewide ban on plastic bags, was passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Brown. Many California counties and municipalities have enacted their own plastic […]