What a long, strange year itĢƵ 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’ll explain.Bill Shuster, the ...
ItĢƵ 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’ll be 719 long, long days ago.Webb didn’t stand a ...
Well, according to the highly unofficial and unscientific ĢƵ 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 nationĢƵ capital is turning slowly to what might be accomplished during the “lame duck” — that period when legislative business is conducted after the voting has done but before the new Congress is sworn in.The ...
On Tuesday, I’m 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’t done for the whole of my adult life.I’m 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 itĢƵ safe to assume that one or both of the presidential candidates will be singing a different tune. Thank goodness for that.Hillary ClintonĢƵ campaign anthem, the inane pop tune “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten, has some staffers covering their ears and ...