Category Archives: Blogs

With Friends Like These Typically in the week before a major election, it's a chance for the candidates to make their final pitch to voters. But both sides have been plagued by foot-in-mouth disease--...

No Joy Usually in a general election campaign, a candidate will spend the first part of the race defining himself or herself in TV ads and appearances. Then he or she goes negative against his or her ...

Where Do They Go From Here? Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election, at least one of the two major parties will be in what sports teams call a "rebuilding" phase. Let's say Trump ...

Not Worth It   I've recently heard people I respect on both sides of the political aisle suggest that this election-while vitally important-is not worth destroying families and friendships over. ...

The Path to 270   Election Day is just one day away. Hopefully-for the sake of everyone's sanity-we'll know that night who the next president will be.   The magic number, of course, is 270-t...

Unforced Errors Both major party candidates slipped up this past weekend at various rallies. Donald Trump did a three-hour podcast recording with Joe Rogan Friday, which has already recorded some 27 m...

Hard to Predict Much attention has understandably been paid to the presidential race this year. That comes at the expense of down-ticket races, like for Congress. It's tempting to try to connect the p...

Decisions Are Made With regard to the presidential race, I don't believe there are any undecided voters left. Undecided in terms of which of the candidates the voter supports, that is. Where there may...

Amendment Two There are two state constitutional amendments on the Iowa ballot this election cycle. We talked about one of them, concerning voter eligibility, yesterday. Today, the second of the two a...

Amendment One No, I'm not talking about the First Amendment and free speech, although that is important. I'm talking about the fact that there are two separate amendments to the Iowa state constitutio...