“Nothing.” That is what President Joe Biden promised to do differently after last week’s disappointing, frustrating, and confounding midterm elections. “I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way,” Biden reiterated in the post-vote news conference on Wednesday. So,…
Thirty years ago, during the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, Clinton adviser James Carville boiled the primary campaign message down to the simplest terms: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Indeed, that pithy statement is largely considered a truism in politics….
First, something of a mea culpa. In a recent note on these pages, I expressed my opinion that voters would focus on issues like the economy and crime rather than on “threats to democracy.” While it’s true that many more…
The Wall Street Journal placed a box with poll results right in the middle of its lead editorial on Thursday, Nov. 10. It cites its source as “Media exit poll, Nov. 8, 2022,” and it reads: Is your opinion of…
It appears that the issue of abortion played a significant role in the underperformance of Republicans in the midterm elections. According to the Washington Times, abortion “was the second most pressing issue on voters’ minds … [after] the economy.” The…
This election season, a few candidates tried a novel approach to raising funds and awareness for their campaigns: the platform OnlyFans, where creators provide (mostly) sexual content to paid subscribers. Martha Bueno, a Libertarian candidate for the Miami-Dade County Commission,…
In what was an overall frustrating election night for Republicans, in which the oft-predicted “red wave” failed to materialize nationally, there was one state above all that provided a clear beacon of hope. That would be my adopted state of…
You know, it is amazing. In the aftermath of the election, there are all these hosannas for Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. He was reelected in a Florida landslide. Good for him. But, in fact, Mr. DeSantis is really being…
On the morning of the midterm elections, former President Donald Trump had a 33 percent chance of winning the 2024 presidential election, according to online betting markets, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a 16 percent chance. The betting markets…
