Will black Americans not only reelect President Trump, but also write a new chapter of American political history? Yes, that’s quite a question – one of cosmos-bending proportions. And so are the figures undergirding that statement. According to Rasmussen, black Americans plan to vote for President Trump in larger numbers than in 2016. That’s not surprising. Yet,
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Many people of all political persuasions, including myself, find much of the mainstream news opinionated and biased. Negative media coverage of President Trump, for example, ran as high as 99 percent in May. This slanted news does serious damage to our republic. It’s divisive, but it also causes ignorance. Two days ago, I met a
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The U.S. economy grew by a record 33.1 percent in the third quarter of the year as employers continue to restore jobs and the country continues to feel the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Commerce Department figure released Wednesday reflects the rate of decline in U.S. gross domestic product during the third quarter, from
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Still fighting off the tail-end of the Great Depression, Americans gave President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a landslide victory over Republican challenger Alf Landon in 1936. Roosevelt, keen to see his New Deal legislation brought to fruition, was frustrated again and again by the Supreme Court. The “Four Horsemen” – the press’s name for conservative justices
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More rioting and looting broke out in American cities this week. This time, it was Philadelphia consumed by violence after a police shooting. According to ABC News, at least 30 police officers have been injured in the violent unrest, while dozens of people have been arrested for rioting or vandalism. Mobs have descended on Walmart
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The Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned on Twitter and elsewhere the other day that if preelection polls in this year’s presidential race are embarrassingly wrong again, “then the polling industry is done.” It was quite the forecast. While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion
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