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Donald Trump’s obsession with crowd size is certifiably weird. Yet it is surpassed in its weirdness his obsession with TV ratings. Watching the Democratic National Convention play out this week is only worsening his public nervous breakdown. This breakdown was triggered when Joe Biden passed the torch to Kamala Harris. Of course, the Obamas trigger… Read more.
I realized many party conventions ago that conventional wisdom about them never fails. That wisdom holds that they have little to no impact on which party wins the General Election. And this has been the case time and again. Which is why I find watching party conventions akin to drinking a vanilla milkshake to soothe… Read more.
Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman whose outsider campaign has both galvanized millions of voters and divided the Republican Party, is the 2016 GOP presidential nominee. The New Yorker’s embrace by the Republican National Convention (RNC) marks a remarkable moment in U.S. political history and validates a campaign that shattered precedent, defied pundits and usurped the… Read more.
This will be my last (and, for that reason, relatively lengthy) commentary on the horse race between Romney and Obama until late October. At that time I’ll review their debates, which I suspect will be even more scripted and predictable than these conventions were, and I’ll restate my prediction for Election Day. I’m tuning out because… Read more.
