[ Posted Thursday, November 10th, 2016 – 17:43 UTC ]
Program Note: At the bottom of this excerpt is the original program note I ran earlier today, just for continuity. The following excerpt had to be typed out manually, which took me a while to complete (I thought I had done so a long time ago, when taking historical notes, but it turns out I was mistaken). I am posting it in full here for regular readers as a preview of tomorrow's column. I would be willing to bet that now that Donald Trump has won the presidency, a whole lot of people are going to start noticing parallels between him and Andrew Jackson, the first truly populist president ever elected. I'm too tired tonight to provide any context or any of my own personal commentary, which I will add to the following to create tomorrow's column. But, as I said, I thought regular readers would appreciate the core story in advance.
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[ Posted Thursday, October 27th, 2016 – 19:49 UTC ]
No column today, sorry. Busy carving pumpkins for tomorrow's (rather early) Hallowe'en column.
But I would advise everyone to reload this page in their browser, otherwise you might not see our holiday header, above. Boo!
-- Chris Weigant
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[ Posted Friday, October 14th, 2016 – 17:46 UTC ]
Donald Trump has a new answer for why he's about to lose in a landslide. It's all a vast left-wing conspiracy. No, really. Well, he didn't actually use that term, but he did indeed go full-on conspiracy theorist at a recent rally. He blamed the Obamas, the Clintons, the world banking cabal (no dog-whistles there, right?), corporations, and anyone else he could think of. In other words, we seriously doubt Donald Trump is going to give a polite and respectful concession speech on Election Night. This is Trump, unshackled (to use his own term). Trump unchained. Trump off the leash. And it ain't pretty.
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[ Posted Sunday, October 9th, 2016 – 15:27 UTC ]
I don't think I've ever done this before, but I'm creating this article just as a placeholder -- an "open thread."
This will allow everyone to comment about the debate tonight, without having to scroll through the already-long comment thread on Friday's article.
So sit back, pop the popcorn, and have fun watching the debate tonight, and [...]
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[ Posted Friday, September 23rd, 2016 – 15:04 UTC ]
In the world of wonkcraft, though, political observers everywhere are caught in a waiting game, ticking off the moments until the first presidential debate (which happens this Monday night -- which you probably already knew, if you're reading this sort of article). What will happen? Will Donald Trump melt down? Will he strain his "presidential" muscle? Will he storm off the stage in a tantrum, halfway through? Will Hillary Clinton make it through the evening without stumbling (either metaphorically or physically, one might add)? Will Lester Holt redeem NBC News after the fiasco named Matt Lauer? Will Trump reference body parts (his own, his opponent's, or perhaps even the moderator's)? It's certainly happened before.
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[ Posted Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 – 16:54 UTC ]
There will be no column today, as I will instead be playing hooky. I posted another Electoral Math column yesterday, while everyone else was on vacation (I like to post them on Mondays), so I'm taking today off as compensation.
I will try to get to answering some comments tonight -- I've been rather busy [...]
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[ Posted Thursday, July 28th, 2016 – 22:55 UTC ]
A quick program note is in order. I just got back from the end of Day Four of the Democratic National Convention. The media tent had no WiFi access at all tonight, so I wasn't able to follow the work schedule I'd set for myself. My personal take is that the routers [...]
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[ Posted Tuesday, June 14th, 2016 – 15:34 UTC ]
No column today, sorry. I'm working on fixing the comments problem, which (hopefully) seems to be a technical glitch involving memory and the database. Warning: repairs may make the website either unavailable or act strangely for the next few hours. Hopefully by tomorrow things will be sorted out. Again, thanks for [...]
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[ Posted Monday, June 13th, 2016 – 17:39 UTC ]
Something is extremely wrong with the site's comments right now. The problem seemed to have happened over the weekend. I'm currently trying to get things back to normal. Please bear with us, and hopefully we'll get things up and running again soon. Thanks for your patience.
-- Chris Weigant
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[ Posted Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 – 17:27 UTC ]
There will be no column today, sorry. But the good news is that hopefully tomorrow's column will make up for it. I spent the day "on location" (with a press pass and everything) at a Bernie Sanders rally. It was too convenient to ignore, since it was only a couple of miles [...]
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