Polling Place Report
Just voted. At 11am, there were a hundred people in line (or as we used to say in New York, on line), most of whom used the touch screens. It seemed like a lot more women than past elections. Total time, entrance to exit: about 45 minutes. Seems like a good time to...
Random Thoughts
This picture made me smile today. It's the gravesite of suffragette Susan B. Anthony, where people have been adding their "I Voted" stickers. Demand is so high that the cemetery will stay open extra hours on Election Day to accommodate crowds who -- 110 years after...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Kathleen Parker says your anxiety about the outcome of this election has been driven by The Great American Fear Machine: Through media in all its forms, we exhaust and are exhausted by the insignificant. To tune in is to believe that Western civilization is nearing...
As I Tweeted
It's November 2, and you know what that means. We have one week until the 2020 presidential election campaign begins.
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
In a conversation with Esquire's JR Havlan, poker pro Daniel Negreanu picks up on Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's tells: Havlan: You mentioned Hillary's smile, which is her go-to reaction when Trump is saying terrible stuff about her. Is it her main...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Longtime radio programmer Darryl Parks has been saying for several years that conservative talk stations will have a big problem on the day after the election: their audience will still be shrinking, old, male, and basically dying off -- and they have no one to blame...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
In a conversation with Frank Palotta of CNN, Jerry Seinfeld explains how Donald Trump sees the presidency: I'm just laughing [about] what he thinks being president is. "This company's going to do that, you're going to go over here. I can make other countries do...
Political Ad Of The Year
He's a Republican running for reelection to a local office in Texas...