Category Archives: Blogs

Broadcasting From Anywhere We take technology for granted. We talk to the screen when something, in our minds, is taking too long to load-forgetting that only a few years ago, we would start downloadi...

Unforced Errors Political candidates give a lot of speeches and answer a lot of questions in a given very-long day. So I tend to give them some slack for what is obviously a misstatement. For example,...

Free Food We've talked before about how free food and drink is a major part of presidential candidates' appeal these days, to hook you in to attending their events. If you really worked it right, thou...

Dueling Events Next Wednesday, CNN is hosting what they had hoped would be a crown jewel of election coverage...a GOP debate in Iowa just a few days before the caucus. After the Republican National Co...

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same As we get used to saying this is now 2024...think back a full decade ago, to 2014. How many things are the same now as they were then? We didn't hav...

A New Year It's probably a sign of advanced age, but where in the world did 2023 go? Seems like it just started...and now the calendar reads 2024. In an effort to be more organized a year ago, I had p...

No Off Year for Money This old year ending soon, 2023, is supposedly an "off year" for elections. But you wouldn't know it from the money spent on political ads nationally. The political tracking firm...

Easy as 1-2-3 This Sunday is New Year's Eve, December 31st. If you look at it numerically, it's 12-31. And since this is still the year 2023, that would make the date 12-31-23. Since I put "dashes" in...

Change in Tactics As President Joe Biden began his re-election effort, his team suggested he focus on his accomplishments while in office. That's typically good strategy to give an incumbent; most ele...

Caucus Context We're only 20 days away from the Iowa Republican first-in-the-nation presidential precinct caucuses. Current polling shows former President Donald Trump topping 50 percent in many polls...