I feel much dumber and less informed for having watched the complete shit show that was the first Presidential debate. The entire program was simply Trump telling outrageous and obvious lies and Biden trying vainly to stem the sewage flow coming from Trump’s smirking maw. CNN’s decision not to fact-check Trump (and Biden) during the … Read more
The Republicans in Congress, with no decency whatsoever, have really displayed gall and nerve by, in an apparent bid to make their base happy, inviting Traitor and 34 Time Convicted Donald Trump to the scene of one of his other crimes, the Nation’s Capitol, where he enabled his MAGA supporters to storm Congress in a … Read more
Watch this interview with Allen Lichtman before reading: I don’t fully buy into Lichtman’s Keys theory, but it has proven a very effective predictive tool. We should pay attention to results. Polls this far out predict exactly NOTHING. The fundamental nature of such national races, however, does matter and does have predictive power. Lichtman is … Read more
I read economist Noah Smith’s Substack Newsletter Noahpinion pretty regularly. Today, he had an interesting observation about an economic story that will transform Arizona’s economy in the coming years: For over a year, along with many other writers who follow industrial policy, I sounded the alarm that the much-trumpeted TSMC fab (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) in Arizona … Read more
There are very few places where the battle for control of the Presidency, the U.S. Congress, and for control of a state legislature overlap more tightly than in Tucson’s northern suburbs and exurbs. That makes the jurisdictions in and around the Southern Arizona region, such as Arizona’s 6th Congressional District (CD6), and the 16th and … Read more