Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
The morning the Japanese sunk our fleet at Pearl Harbor Americans took a hard look at Franklin Roosevelt with one question on their minds: Is he up to the job? After the Stock Market Crash in 1929 the same hard look undid for Hebert Hoover and, during the Iran Hostage Crisis, it sank Jimmy Carter.…
Read MoreTrump sees one way he can win the election even if he loses Independents – by firing up his ‘base.’ By getting Trumpsters who didn’t vote in 2018 and 2016 to go to the polls. Trump – using tweets and name-calling and boasting – has put all his showmanship to work to do that. What…
Read MoreBack in 2016 Hillary got a shock during Early Voting – Blacks who’d voted for Obama stayed home and didn’t vote for her. I remember looking at the bleak (for Hillary) numbers: In 2012, when Obama ran, 22% of the voters in North Carolina were African-Americans. In 2016, only 18% of the voters were African-Americans.…
Read MoreTrump’s plan to overcome his unpopularity with Independents is straightforward: He’s going to make Biden more unpopular than he is. And being Trump he’s blunt about it – he tweeted: ‘Sleepy Joe doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing – I don’t think he even knows what office he’s running for.’ At a…
Read MoreYears ago a political savant told me, There’re three types of elections: One, the election where you like both candidates and vote for the one you like most. Two, the election where you like one candidate and dislike the other – that one’s easy, you vote for the candidate you like. Three, the election where…
Read MoreAt his rallies Donald Trump roars about the might of his base – in his eyes it’s the key to his defeating Joe Biden. So he tweets (to his base) how he has the highest approval rating among Republicans of any President, even Lincoln – but Trump’s calculation may boomerang: If every Republican Trumpster in…
Read MoreYou hear the words spoken every day, over and over, on CNN and Fox News: We’re more polarized than ever before. And on Facebook and Twitter President Trump – who sees igniting his ‘base’ as a key to defeating Biden – pours fuel on the fires of polarization. But there’s one wayward fact: Polarization isn’t…
Read MorePunching away after watching the Democrats debate in Las Vegas Trump tweeted Michael Bloomberg “was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent” – punching back Bloomberg started putting up billboards around Trump’s rallies saying, “Donald Trump Eats Burnt Steak. Mike Bloomberg Likes His Medium Rare.” George Washington said no to being crowned king. At the end of…
Read MorePoliticians see a block of voters and think, Let’s give them something and they’ll vote for us. We just saw one example: African-Americans made up half the voters in South Carolina’s Democratic Primary and a third of the voters in North Carolina’s primary and before the first vote was cast Joe Biden announced he’d give…
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The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient…
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Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem, the legendary political godfather to Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt, had a…
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This is bad. Bad for America and for the world. Bad for women, for immigrants, for…
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