What a long, strange year it鈥檚 been. Never in my wildest dreams ... .In addition to the rise of Donald Trump, there is the strange race for Congress involving Bill Shuster, Art Halvorson, and Adam Sedlock.Did I say strange? Baffling and bewildering, too. I鈥檒l explain.Bill Shuster, the ...
It鈥檚 been a long, hard slog.All of this started when the ex-U.S. Senator from Virginia, Jim Webb, announced he was forming an exploratory committee for a possible run for the presidency.Remarkably, that was on Nov. 20, 2014.Tomorrow, that鈥檒l be 719 long, long days ago.Webb didn鈥檛 stand a ...
Well, according to the highly unofficial and unscientific 缅北禁地 weekly poll, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will win Tuesday's election by a landslide.According to the poll, which asked people who they were voting for president, 1,397 residents selected Trump while ...
With less than a week before the presidential election, attention in the nation鈥檚 capital is turning slowly to what might be accomplished during the 鈥渓ame duck鈥� 鈥� that period when legislative business is conducted after the voting has done but before the new Congress is sworn in.The ...
On Tuesday, I鈥檓 going to get up bright and early, drop my daughter off at school and head to my local polling place to do something I haven鈥檛 done for the whole of my adult life.I鈥檓 going to vote for a Clinton for president.In 1992, I voted for President George H.W. Bush, preferring his ...
Win or lose, after Election Day it鈥檚 safe to assume that one or both of the presidential candidates will be singing a different tune. Thank goodness for that.Hillary Clinton鈥檚 campaign anthem, the inane pop tune 鈥淔ight Song鈥� by Rachel Platten, has some staffers covering their ears and ...