Category: Politics

By Dave Andrusko As I write these remarks, we are just hours away from the 9:00 start of the second and final presidential debate which will take place at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. The moderator will be NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker. Without taking up your time with a lot of details, President …

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL), the state’s oldest and largest pro-life organization, today criticized U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson’s (MN-07) characterization of his record on abortion. Peterson’s campaign claims in a radio ad currently running that he is “100 percent pro-life.” “Collin Peterson’s voting record in Congress has become more and more concerning …

By Dave Andrusko.  As we have for the last week and a half, each day as we approach November 3rd, we’ll be taking a look back at what we wrote at a comparable point in time in 2016—in this case, October 27, 12 days from the November 8th General Election. The headline for the piece I wrote …

By Dave Andrusko In the face of virtually every poll showing Hillary Clinton up  by 3-6 points, I wrote the following on November 7, 2016, the day before the election: “But the most accurate poll over the last several election cycles has been IBD/TIPP…” And, in fact, they proved to be one of only two …

By Dave Andrusko Imagine being part of the media advance guard for pro-abortion Joe Biden and you’re caught in this fix. The numbers, as measured by many but not all polls, show him ahead of pro-life President Donald Trump. But the margins in the crucial “battleground states” give every evidence of shrinking by the day.  …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. As we have for the last week, each day as we approach November 3rd, we’ll be taking a look back at what we wrote at a comparable point in time in 2016—in this case, October 25, 14 days from the November 8th General Election.  “You don’t have to teach children about …

By Nicholas Fondacaro Traditionally, the final presidential debate questions focused on foreign policy. But on Friday, the Commission on Presidential Debates and moderator Kristen Welker of NBC spit in the eye of that precedent and decreed the final debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden be on a variety of topics (including climate change). …

By Dave Andrusko For starters we know that every President Trump positive—his relentless and cheerful campaigning–will be turned into a negative by the media, and every Biden negative—he’s back hiding again—will be treated as pure statesmanship. So, what else is new? Beyond piling on by the media, which is as old as it is vicious, …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. As we have for the last week, each day as we approach November 3rd, we’ll be taking a look back at what we wrote at a comparable point in time in 2016. We are now 15 days from the  historic 2020 General Election. The parallels are absolutely uncanny. There are so many …

By Dave Andrusko We have a separate post on how the two Townhall meetings were conducted.  No one could honestly say they were surprised by the verbal assault launched against President Trump or the cozy treatment former vice President Joe Biden received. But there are some aspects worth pondering. What follows are headlines and a …

Editor’s note. We are now 18 days from an historic General Election.  Each day, as we approach November 3rd,  we’ll be taking a look back at what we wrote at a comparable point in time in 2016. We’ll either repost the remarks without change, or update it to reflect that the pro-abortion Democrat is Joe …

By Dave Andrusko When it comes to analyzing political races, in my experience nothing is more important than distinguishing between the easily heard loud surface noises  and the virtually inaudible sounds rumbling quietly beneath the surface that are so often missed. That’s what we try to do in our daily countdown to November 3rd. As …