The Other McCain

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Our Long National Nightmare Is Over: Republicans Win House Majority

It shouldn’t take an entire week to count the votes — Florida, notably, counted all theirs in about four hours — but at last it’s done: It is now official. Republicans have won the House of Representatives. According to Decision Desk HQ, the GOP will hold at least 218 seats following yet another race called […]

Why Vote-By-Mail Is The End Of The Republic

by Smitty Hypothetically speaking (not purely, I had anecdotal awareness of at least one occurrence a few election cycles ago), one can use ballots sent to addresses in multiple states to vote more than once in an election. Who would know? So, what is to prevent some wiseguy from registering in every state that automatically […]

‘Progressive Rock Star’ Katie Porter Spends $24 Million for Reelection

Apologies for the lack of blogging Thursday, but because today is Veterans Day, my day job required me to do two days of work in advance, blah blah blah. Anyway, I happened to click on a Hot Air item by John Sexton, toward the end of which, this part caught my attention: Finally, another race […]

Seeking Light Amid the Gloom: Thoughts on the Brain-Damaged Election Results

What kind of people would elect John Fetterman? Short answer: The kind of people who live in Philadelphia, a city that has become America’s Mos Eisley, a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.” PENNSYLVANIA: Fetterman (D) …. 2,638,537 (50%) Oz (R) …………….. 2,458,756 (47%) MARGIN: D+ 179,781 PHILADELPHIA: Fetterman (D) …. 364,007 (82%) Oz (R) […]

MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS HQ: ‘Not a Red Wave, That’s For Darn Sure’

UPDATE 6:30 a.m. ET Wednesday:

The ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse and Other Cosmic Portents of a ‘Red Wave’

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”? Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff. Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly. Dr. Raymond Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! […]

‘President of United Earth’ Stacey Abrams Insults Georgia Sheriffs in TV Debate

Liberals in Hollywood decided that election denier Stacey Abrams (who lost to Brian Kemp by 55,000 votes in 2018) would be perfect for the role of “President of United Earth” in the Star Trek Discovery series, but without explaining exactly how she might obtain such a lofty position. Fortunately, politics in the real world is […]

Democrats and Media (But I Repeat Myself) Begin Midterm Pre-Mortems

After a few weeks of false hope — a late-summer poll bump that peaked in September and has now collapsed — Democrats and their media allies are beginning to come to grips with the fact that their congressional majority is going to get wiped out in next week’s midterm election. The bottom is dropping out […]

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