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MIT: Hackers can alter ballots in widely used voting app
“You can’t hack a pencil,” New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner said. He’s right, of course. There is great wisdom and integrity in what Sec. of State Gardner said. Regarding the hackable voting...
“You see, I was one of those Democrats who considered anyone who voted for Trump a racist.”
Karlyn Borysenko author of “After Attending a Trump Rally, I Now Know Democrats Have No Shot in 2020:” I’ve been a Democrat for 20 years, but my experience made me realize just how out...
RCP: Pelosi Took Biden Out — the main question “is whether it was deliberate or accidental”?
The RealClear Politics article by Phillip Wegmann quoted below uses the same “friendly-fire” description used in my February 7th blog titled: “After Pelosi’s Impeachment Took Out Biden, Senator Klobuchar’s Rise will Continue“ From the...
FiveThirtyEight: A Contested Dem Convention has Become More Likely
Silver on Sanders: Sanders won the popular vote in each of the first two states (and he may eventually win the state delegate equivalent vote in Iowa). He leads in national polls (having recently overtaken former...
CNN: Bloomberg’s Statements on Race and Crime should “Disqualify him”
Quotes by Bloomberg from CNN: “You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed,” Bloomberg can be heard saying. “You want to spend the money on...
Waiting for the New Nevada Polls that Don’t get Spiked
Why aren’t there any new Nevada polls being published? With the Nevada caucuses ten days away, the last Nevada poll was published more than a month ago. The answer has to be that those...
Sanders wins New Hampshire primary
The hundreds of people who packed the Southern New Hampshire University field house where Sanders gave his election victory speech exploded into a thunderous roar when he took the stage. “This victory here is the...
Bloomberg’s big bet on the power of money
From Axios: By the numbers: In just over a month, Bloomberg spent more than the top 2020 contenders spent for the whole final quarter of 2019 combined, according to Federal Election Commission data. He also outspent...
Biden Super PAC Warns of Train Wreck if Sanders and Bloomberg Face-Off at the Dem Convention
“Donors hedging their bets on Biden because of Bloomberg could be creating a doomsday scenario for Democrats everywhere,” the group’s treasurer, Larry Rasky, wrote. “The Sanders-Warren wing of the Party is ready for the...
TIME: The DEMpire is Scared
This is the room that scares the crap out of the Democratic establishment: a college gymnasium in Keene, N.H., packed to the rafters with nearly 2,000 Bernie Sanders fans joyfully noodle-dancing to a Vermont-based...
Did AOC Not Mentioning Sanders and ICE Remarks Rankle Sanders Campaign Manager or is it the DEMpire Media Attempting to Sow Seeds of Discord?
Following Ocasio-Cortez’s three-day stint, Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, texted AOC’s campaign manager to express his dissatisfaction with aspects of her performance, according to a source familiar with the exchange. Specifically, the Sanders campaign was miffed...
By the Official Chinese Numbers: The 2019-nCoV so Far
How to correctly calculate the mortality rate during an outbreak The case fatality rate (CFR) represents the proportion of cases who eventually die from a disease. Once an epidemic has ended, it is calculated...
Morning Consult: Sanders 25%, Bloomberg 15% — Mayor Pete at 11%
Sanders leads Mayor Pete by a 2:1 margin based on a poll of 2,500 potential Democratic voter between February 3rd – 5th, with a +/- 2.0% margin of error, less than half the normal...
Li Wenliang’s death is a new crisis for China’s rulers
From The Economist: “IF YOU KEEP being stubborn, fail to repent and continue illegal activities, you will be brought to justice.” So read the warning that police in Wuhan issued to Li Wenliang early...
After Pelosi’s Impeachment Took Out Biden, Senator Klobuchar’s Rise will Continue
Let me explain: wargaming the outcome, post-New Hampshire, led me to several surprising possibilities, including the continued rise of Senator Klobuchar. First, let’s talk about Sanders. To kick-off the DEMpire operations against Sanders, they...
Slate: Buttigieg helps take Down Biden, as Left Consolidates around Bernie
From Slate: In short, Buttigieg is helping to consolidate the left and split the moderates, creating ideal conditions for a Sanders win. Meanwhile, there’s still little sign the man from McKinsey has a real...
New York Magazine: “Bernie Sanders is currently favored to win the nomination”
From New York Magazine: “It is always darkest, John McCain used to say, before it gets totally black. So it is for the American center-left right now. Bernie Sanders is currently favored to win...
New York Magazine: The Failing Non-Bloomberg Candidates Means Bloomberg is Center-Right Dems “Best-Case Scenario”
From New York Magazine: “Unless one of the non-Bloombergs can somehow get off the mat and defeat Sanders, this is probably the best-case scenario for liberals at this point. It seems more probable that Sanders crushes...
Biden goes missing in New Hampshire
From the Washington Post, via MSNBC: “Biden spent Thursday gathered with his top advisers at his home in Wilmington, Del., seeking a reset and perhaps a last-ditch effort to save his candidacy, beginning with...
DEMpire Strikes Back: Recanvas in Iowa would Delay Results until After New Hampshire Vote
From Politico: “Several Iowa Democrats who spoke to POLITICO on the condition they not be identified said that even if a recanvass took place, the results would almost certainly not come through until after...