By Glynn Wilson – Could it be that the national public opinion pundits are at it again, over estimating the support for Democrat Joe Biden and underestimating the stealth support for reelecting President Donald Trump? Before I could grab the results from the latest Morning Consult poll and write a story about it, New York…
By Glynn Wilson – The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the political fight over her replacement could jolt the presidential race and the competitive battle for control of the United States Senate just six weeks before the election, prompting survey research company the Morning Consult Poll to question whether Democratic or…
Biden Leads in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado – By Glynn Wilson – Democrats should be able to issue a collective sigh of relief at least for a few minutes in the first week of September as the Democratic Party’s ticket for president, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, still holds an eight point lead nationally…
By Glynn Wilson – A day after President Donald Trump stood on the South Lawn of the White House and abused the people’s House for political purposes like no president in the history of the United States and ranted against what he called “agitators” hell bent on destroying “the American way of life,” thousands of…
“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.” – Theodore H. White By Glynn Wilson – “Politics and money go together like whiskey and cocaine,” a Republican friend of mine used to say. “You can do one without the other, but it’s not quite the same.” I could get…
By Glynn Wilson – Joe Biden went before a troubled nation on video Thursday night from his home state of Delaware and accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, promising to rescue the country from an incompetent, racist president who has been guilty since day one of gross abuses of power. Biden appealed to all…
By Glynn Wilson – Former President Barack Obama chose Independence Hall in Philadelphia to frame his video address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, with the United States Constitution as the backdrop. This speaks volumes, which will largely be ignored by the talking heads on TeeVee, because they simply don’t get it, and brushed…
By Glynn Wilson – In a world upended by the coronavirus and resulting economic recession, Democrats are taking to the internet this week and scrambling to reach out to all Americans willing to listen to offer a sane alternative to Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans in the United States Senate with a…
Democrats in the Senate Respond – By Glynn Wilson – Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell single-handedly adjourned the United States Senate on Thursday until September 8, the day after Labor Day, without reaching a deal for a new round of coronavirus relief. In response, along with other Democrats in the Senate, U.S. Senator Doug Jones…
By Glynn Wilson – A whopping 88 percent of Democrats say the announcement of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s pick for Vice President made them hopeful, and roughly 4 out 5 say it makes them confident, proud, happy or “excited,” according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll just out Thursday night. That’s the share of…
By Glynn Wilson – A group of United States Senators, including Doug Jones of Alabama, is urging President Donald Trump’s recently appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to provide answers regarding reports of recent changes to long-standing practices at the U.S. Postal Service, changes that would result in increased delivery times and costs for election mail,…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama blasted President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a statement Saturday night in the wake of the president’s signing of executive orders claiming to extend unemployment benefits, in the absence of action in the Senate to provide a second round of stimulus…
By Glynn Wilson – The deadly, novel coronavirus is still spreading across the land. The number of reported deaths from COVID-19 are still going up. The economy is stalling again, and millions of Americans just exhausted their federally subsidized unemployment benefits. The House is still in session in Washington, D.C. working on a new economic…
U.S. Party Preferences Swing Sharply To Democrats – By Glynn Wilson – Gallup’s latest polling reveals the damage President Donald J. Trump has done to the Republican Party and indicates the presidential and U.S. Senate elections in 2020 are the Democrats to lose with less than four months to go. While Trump seemed to be…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The race for the United States Senate is on now that U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama has an opponent, a former Auburn football coach endorsed by President Donald J. Trump with no experience in politics and government. Related: Alabama Senator Doug Jones Holds the Key to Victory…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – Not since Richard Nixon sat forlorn with a bottle of whiskey in the West Wing trying to stave off impeachment during the Watergate scandal has a president found himself so isolated, alone, hated and embattled in the White House. Will Donald Trump resort to…
By Glynn Wilson – As the countdown begins in earnest to see what party runs the country for the next four years, setting the agenda for public policy in Washington and leading America beyond the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession, the hidebound red state of Alabama has a chance to play a surprising role in…
By Glynn Wilson – America will be celebrating independence in a few weeks on July 4 and holding an election in a few months on Nov. 3, so this seems like a good time to assess where we are psychologically after three and a half months of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession,…
By Glynn Wilson – For one of the fews times in Donald Trump’s presidency, his job approval rating has fallen below 40 percent, a harbinger of problems ahead in his drive for reelection in November that could make a second term “unlikely,” according to Gallup. Satisfaction with how things are going in the United States…
Instead of Coming Together to Fight for Survival, Our Cities Are Divided and Wracked by Violence- By Glynn Wilson – One hundred thousand Americans are dead due the novel coronavirus, likely spawned in on outhouse full of human DNA and animal waste at or near a wet meat market in Wuhan, China, where animal-to-human transmission…
