All Mail Voting Works – for Republicans
For all the Republican howling of late about mail balloting, we have now had our first two all mail ballot elections in California, and guess what, Republicans won both: a State Senate seat in Riverside County and a congressional district in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties that Democrats had won in 2018. Republicans from President […]
The Fight Over Voting By Mail
A huge battle is brewing over the use of mail in balloting for the November election. Republicans, led by President Trump, believe mail voting is a dagger aimed at killing their party, Democrats believe mail ballots are a vast new source of Democratic votes. Intense as this battle is, they are both wrong. Mail ballots […]
The Firing Of Captain Crozier
On January 17, a mighty US Navy carrier strike force departed the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego for duty in the “Indo Pacific”, a chance to remind China of the vast military power of the United States and to visit a new friend not so long ago a bitter enemy. Heading the […]
April: The Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month, and April 2020 will be the cruelest April in decades. Sometime this April the Covid 19 pandemic will possibly explode; with luck it will crest and the “curve flatten”, but no one knows for sure when. Americans have been through terrible Aprils before, but this will be one of the […]
The March Primary: Some Good News for Republicans
Three weeks after California’s early primary, and what seems almost light years ago, California’s left for dead Republican Party is showing surprising signs of life. Given the hot Democratic presidential primary that was hardly expected, but in fact Republicans emerged from the primary with more than they started with. For the first time in six […]
Super Tuesday Flop; California’s Primary was Too Early
A lot of Californians have reason to want to tar and feather California politicians after Tuesday’s vote. They are the 1.2 million Democratic voters who cast a ballot for one of the 11 Democratic candidates who have dropped out, or like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, are no longer viable. They wasted their votes because the primary […]
California Will Miss The Boat On Stopping Sanders
The California primary is too early, and Democrats are going to rue the day that California could not bat clean-up when the Democratic race becomes Sen. Bernie Sanders verses one non-socialist candidate, not half a dozen. With less than week before the California Primary, Democrats simply do not have time to vet the disaster of […]
The California Primary—Missed Again?
Once again it looks like California has moved up its primary to Super Tuesday at exactly the wrong time. We did this in 2008, and ended up being an afterthought. It could be even worse for California Democrats in 2020, because it looks like a long slog to the Democratic nomination in July, and California […]
Can Bloomberg Win California?
Rides now into California billionaire Michael Bloomberg with his saddlebags overflowing with dollars as he tries to buy the California primary. Many other billionaires have failed at buying elections; the more money Meg Whitman spent trying to buy the governorship in 2010, the worst she did. But this time it could be different. For one […]
The California Gender Gap Goes National
Thirty seven years ago, in 1983, I coauthored one of the first studies of the Republican Party’s problem with women voters, what was then called the “gender gap.” This first showed up in the 1980 election, and was very apparent in the 1982 election. In that year, working women under the age of 45 voted […]