A summer note from Paul Spector; tell your friends about the great things the Biden Administration is accomplishing. See below. Don’t let the noise drown it out! But first, Ohio. OHIO VOTERS ROUNDLY REJECTED REPUBLICAN MANEUVERS to undermine the will of the people. Voters turned out in record numbers for an off-season special election designed […]
DON’T FRET ABOUT THE EARLY POLLS. According to Paul Spector on the FridayAction’s August Zoom, even though the New York Times shows Trump and Biden tied at 43%, the 14% undecided are women, young people, and people of color, not excited right now, but most likely to swing 12% to Biden. Also, Republicans are flooding
WHAT WE VOTED FOR THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT IS TURBO CHARGING CLEAN ENERGY TECH. 80 major clean energy manufacturing facilities have been announced. Solar panels are going up even in coal country. AP NEWS. BIDEN PUSHES FOR U.S. TRANSITION TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. The New York Times. THE U.S. ECONOMY BLOWS PAST EXPECTATIONS AGAIN. Core inflation
SO MUCH GOOD NEWS, WHERE TO START? MTG COMPARES BIDEN’S SUCCESS TO FDR AND LBJ. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s intended insults work better as high praise. Biden is completing the work of The New Deal. The Great Society. Click here to enjoy the Biden promotion. ECONOMICALLY BIDENOMICS WEAKENS TRUMP FOR 2024. Swing states are seeing outsized
WE MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT. INFLATION NUMBERS ARE DOWN SHARPLY, with prices easing for gasoline, groceries, airline fares and used cars. Though still not where we want to be, fears of a recession are fading. Bidenomics and Fed Policy can take part of the credit, causing Paul Krugman, New York Times’ Op Ed writer
ECONOMIC STRENGTH. According to Jennifer Rubin, we need to claim and acclaim; “29 consecutive months of job growth, inflation steadily declining, durable goods up for three consecutive months, 35,000 new infrastructure projects, an extended period in which real wages exceeded inflation, and outsize gains for lower wage-earners.” Astounding really. The economic transformation in little towns,
GOOD NEWS. GREAT NEWS!! FROM THE SUPREME COURT. The Court dealt a fatal blow to the Independent State Legislature theory, ruling state legislatures must abide by the will of the people in congressional and presidential elections. They do not have the right to appoint “alternative” electors. This, along with the recent decision to uphold Section
SUPPORT FOR LEGAL ABORTION RISES. A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll finds a significant shift in people changing their views, becoming more supportive of legal abortion. By almost 2 to 1, those surveyed oppose the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read about it here. CHILDREN’S CLIMATE SUIT IN MONTANA. The first children’s lawsuit on
SOMETIMES THE GOOD NEWS IS IN THE BAD NEWS This week was wall-to-wall Trump. With the seriousness of multiple indictments, how could it not be? However besieged, Trump is bad news. But. POLLS ARE SHIFTING ON TRUMP. It’s subtle, but while the Republican support for Trump is alarming given the seriousness of the accusations, the
THE EXPECTED AND THE UNEXPECTED THE UNEXPECTED Good News From The Supreme Court. In a 5-4 decision, Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with liberal justices to uphold Section 2 of the Voting Rights, which prohibits racially discriminatory voting practices, in this case Alabama’s gerrymander of black voters. A welcome moment where the most conservative voices didn’t
