UPDATED 11/2: Mike’s Prediction for 2024 Presidential Election
UPDATE 11/2/24: With early vote distribution and the latest polling coming in I am leaning a bit more optimistic about the strength of Harris’ victory. I would now reduce the probability of my most likely scenario (Harris gets 270-276 EC votes) to 60% and next most likely (Harris by 277 to 320 EC votes) up … Read more
Polling trends have you worried? Don’t be.
What, me worry? Maybe not so much. I’m writing one week before “Election Day”, where I use the quotes to acknowledge that early voting here in Arizona has been going on for almost 3 weeks. Most of my friends and like-minded acquaintances are pretty freaked out. In our ideological bubble, we are repelled by the … Read more
Kate Gallego, Mark Kelly, and Greg Stanton Warn About the Dangers to the Arizona Economy if Trump Cuts Off CHIPS Funding
According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, there are 42 projects in Arizona funded by $100 billion in federal and private investments that are creating thousands of high-paying union jobs while expanding and revitalizing the science infrastructure of the United States. Included in these projects are: These funds were all made possible by the Bipartisan CHIPS … Read more
Chilling New Ad from The Lincoln Project Saying Donald Trump’s Words in German
With Donald Trump and his MAGA apostates having their own version of a Bund Rally at Madison Square Garden today complete with Nazi style catch phrases and insults againstJews, Puerto Ricans and Muslims that may have just given the White House to Kamala Harris and and the Senate to the Democrats, the Lincoln Project released … Read more
Biden Issues a ‘Long Overdue’ Apology to Indigenous People for the Horrors at Indian Boarding Schools
The slogan, originated by Richard Henry Pratt was “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” Over several decades from the late nineteenth to the mid Twentieth Century, Indigenous Children were taken by agents of the federal government to boarding schools where officially, they were to be educated to become assimilated into mainstream (white) American society. Unfortunately, … Read more
Tim Walz Headlines Get Out the Vote Rally at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix
The great majority of the guests at the Harris/Walz Get Out the Vote Rally at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix on October 26, 2024, have already voted in this election. However, the message of this event conveyed by speakers including headliner Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was for the people gathered … Read more
Six Myths Behind the Fallacy of a “Border Crisis”
This is an edited article by Gloria Rebecca Gomez of the Arizona Mirror. Yes, the country needs comprehensive immigration reform. But the persistent Republican disinformation that there is a “border crisis” has no basis in reality. Instead, there has been a sharp decline in migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border in 2024. The truth is … Read more
