Charleston's Congressional District Was A Swing District— The GOP & Supreme Court Killed That Off
Charleston was the center of South Carolina’s only swing district until the Republican legislature decided to gerrymander it out of reach...
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Jun 123 min read
Yesterday's Races: Democrat Outperforms In Super-Red Ohio District Special Election
No Surprises In South Carolina Or Nevada Before we get into yesterday’s primaries, there was a special election in eastern Ohio— filling...
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Jun 84 min read
No One Cares About The South Carolina Republican Primaries But The Candidates Themselves
This coming Tuesday is primary day in South Carolina. There are two races worth watching, both on the Republicans side. MAGAts are trying...
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May 113 min read
Every Term Or Two A Member Of Congress Cracks Up— This Cycle It's South Carolina's Nancy Mace (R)
Nancy Mace is one of the most mixed-up, confused members of Congress. When she won her seat the Charleston-centric district she beat a...
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Mar 306 min read
How Can We Allow The Lowest Among Us— Failures At Life MAGAts— To Collapse The Country?
Thursday night, Umair Haque wrote that when he thinks about the future, he feels “a sense of grief. Mixed with anger. It shouldn’t have...
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Feb 25 min read
Ever Thought Of Kevin McCarthy As A Latter Day Hamlet? Count Of Monte Cristo? Captain Ahab?
Heathcliff’s Hatred For The Earnshaws Ain’t Nothin' Compared To McCarthy’s Feelings Towards The Gaetz 8 Long before I went to work for...
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Jan 204 min read
Nancy Mace Is An Embarrassment... And Kevin McCarthy's First Target
Stupid, selfish and long past his usefulness to anyone, Jim Clyburn intervened in the last South Carolina gerrymander— and not in a good...
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Oct 22, 202310 min read
Fascists And MAGAts Love Matt Gaetz— Everyone Else Wants to Punch Him Out
Everyone in Washington pretty much thinks of Nancy Mace (R-SC) the same way— an opportunistic careerist, unanchored by any semblance of...
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Oct 10, 20238 min read
Gym Jordan Has Been Plotting To Be Speaker For Years-- Will The OSU Wrestling Scandal Prevent That?
On Monday, the Punchbowl crew reported that McCarthy and his allies are looking at an opportunity— GOP dysfunction + the mess in Israel—...
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Aug 10, 20233 min read
Will Their Abortion Fanaticism Lose The Republicans Their House Majority? I Say YES
Did I Mention Their Dysfunctional Leadership? Extreme right House Republicans in safe hillbilly districts— to use Gym Jordan’s parlance—...
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Jul 16, 20234 min read
GOP-Run States Are Big Brother-Run Tyrannies, Not The Bastions Of "Liberty" They Claim To Be
Fascist Mississippi Wants To Know What Their Citizens Are Doing In Other States One of the most frequently discredited of the fake...
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May 10, 20237 min read
Can The Democrats Hold Onto The Senate-- Not If McConnell & Schumer Get Their Way
I’m sure you’ve noticed that the Democratic Party establishment always tries to undermine progressives who are closest to Democratic...
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Jan 22, 20233 min read
Another Trump Kick-Off Event Is Circling The Drain-- South Carolina GOP Leaders Aren't Into Him
Last week, we saw that Trump has decided to restart the circus in Columbia, South Carolina next Saturday. His campaign issued a press...
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Jan 9, 20236 min read
Will Mainstream Conservatives Kill McCarthy's Deal With The Fascist Fringe Today?
There’s been one swing district in the entire state of South Carolina, SC-01, which includes much of Charleston. On Friday, a panel of 3...
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Aug 8, 20226 min read
Both Sides? Clouds Get In The Way
Don't give yourself away My mom loved music. When she was growing up she was a big Frank Sinatra fan, as all her friends were— including...
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Jul 31, 20226 min read
Voters May Decide The Democrats Are The Lesser Evil In The November Elections After All
Yesterday, we saw that House Democrats passed a very popular assault weapons ban that only 2 Republicans could bring themselves to vote...
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Mar 21, 20227 min read
One-Party States Can Be Pretty Dull, But There's A Sign of Life In South Carolina This Year
November will see several top statewide races in South Carolina. Senator Tim Scott is up for reelection. He hs no plausible primary...
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Feb 10, 20226 min read
The GOP Is A Party Of Political Violence And Intra-Party Stalinism
Yesterday, the NY Times published a piece about the uptick in threats of violence directed at members of Congress. After Trump took...
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Dec 23, 20213 min read
Trump Roiling South Carolina GOP Primaries
With the exception of a huge Democratic carve-out for Jim Clyburn, South Carolina in a predominantly red state. The state PVI is R+8 and...
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Dec 1, 20215 min read
Marjorie Traitor Greene Leading The House Republicans Right Into A Trap
This morning, at an event sponsored by the Coalition for Cannabis Policy, Education, and Regulation, South Carolina Republican...
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