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2024 Presidential Candidates by age
It’s a little hypocritical IMHO to ding Biden for his age when you consider that almost half the candidates running (7 out of 16) would be older than Ronald Reagan when they started. This view from last time is interesting because it really highlights how. damn. old. everyone is!
2024 Presidential Candidates – fun with venn diagrams
Revisiting a visualization on governing experience I did for the last election. The clown car is not nearly as full as it was the last time in June but still plenty of folks to keep track of.
Presidential Apprentice round 11 – Curiouser and curiouser
Well, that was quick and I could not have been more wrong. Two folks dropped out of the race and neither was Jim Gilmore.
1) Boss Hogg (i.e. Chris Christie)
2) The Wicked Witch of the West (i.e. Carly Fiorina)
Meanwhile, my man Jim Gilmore, despite coming in last, losing to 3 people not running, says “his plan is to be in South Carolina on Wednesday morning”1. You have to admire that kind of perseverance.
Presidential Apprentice round 9 – Showdown in New Hampshire
Three thoughts from tonight…
1. Next steps…
Of everything that will come from tonight, the most evident, apparent, fundamental truth of the universe is that we are going to soon be entering round 10 of Presidential Apprentice Continue reading
Republican Debate #1 – thoughts
The first chance we had to see the key occupants of the Republican clown car in a single forum didn’t disappoint. It was well run (not a small feat considering there were 10 people on stage), the grandstanding was minimized, we got to see some hand to hand combat and most importantly, it was informative – we got to learn more about almost all of the candidates to understand who Hillary will stomp next fall.
For me, almost everyone came off with a worse impression than what I came in with.
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2015 Republican Presidential Primaries
Started this page on my take on the Republican primary nominees… will keep it updated as time goes on, things develop and as I learn more…
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