Please note that you can leave a comment on any of our posts at our Facebook page.  Subscribers can also comment at length at our Angel's Corner Forum.

NOVEMBER 4,  2022

COMMON SENSE:  Suburban women are flocking to the Republicans.  From the New York Post: 

Something’s happening in the suburbs. On the one hand, polls indicate that white suburban women are shifting — hard — toward the Republican Party. On the other, lots more parents are homeschooling their kids, post-pandemic. These phenomena are not unrelated.

Suburban women are shifting Republican — by 27 points, a Wall Street Journal poll found, with 74% saying the country’s headed in the wrong direction — because the Democrats have let them down.

When people complain about taxes, the usual response is something along the lines of “What, you don’t want police and schools?”

Of course, as my father-in-law once said, when they raise taxes they tell you it’s for teachers and police, but when they get the money it goes to buy a fancy leather chair for some guy you never heard of in an office downtown.

But if you’re going to justify the whole of government by invoking police and schools, maybe it would be a good idea to . . . actually provide police and schools. And Democrats across the nation went out of their way not to deliver either.

To hear Democratic candidates, and the party’s media cheerleaders, talk now, nobody ever supported defunding the police. But, of course, Democrats across the board did just that, and GOP candidates, and honest media, have been replaying the video.

In a spasm of post-George Floyd mass hysteria, the political system, and in particular the governments of Democratic-run cities, made drastic cutbacks in police protection, installed revolving-door, no-bail arraignment systems and encouraged the proliferation of homeless encampments and open-air drug markets in many areas.

Unsurprisingly, the result was surging crime. Around America, downtown businesses have closed, and people — especially women — have felt unsafe in their own neighborhoods.

Crime is now a major issue with the electorate, and even among black voters, the alleged beneficiaries of police defunding, only 17% support defunding the police, per a recent Grio/Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

Allowed to run things their way, Democrats have ruined many of America’s cities, from New York to Chicago to Baltimore to Los Angeles and San Francisco, among many others.

And the crime has spilled out into the suburbs.

Nor is it like taxes went down when police were defunded; the money just got diverted into the pockets of various Democratic interest groups.

Schools didn’t do any better. Education policy (and even at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) during the COVID pandemic was essentially run by the teachers' unions.

This year, Senate Republicans outlined the improper and extensive influence teachers unions, particularly the American Federation of Teachers, wielded over the government’s COVID policies on schools. Union officials actually wrote key portions of Team Biden’s school-opening guidance.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It pretty much sums up the condition of the country, and the GOP's answer to it.  We will see Tuesday night whether the American people accept the answer.

November 4, 2022       Permalink

YIKES!  ET TU, COLORADO?  Well, maybe.  The once sure-thing re-election of Democratic Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado has become less sure and more of an unknown thing.  Never expected this.  From Fox: 

Real Clear Politics has shifted its prediction of a hotly contested Senate race in Colorado from leaning toward Democratic victory to a "toss up" as several high profile races across the country continue to tighten with Republicans hoping to take back control of the chamber next week.

On its updated election prediction map, Real Clear Politics now shows the race between Democratic incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet and his challenger, Republican construction magnate Joe O’Dea, is classified as a "toss up" after previously being viewed as "Leans Dem."

"Voters are angry and they know who caused the problem — they’re fed up and eager for change," Joshua Marin-Mora, deputy press secretary for the O’Dea campaign, posted on Twitter in response to the news on Friday.

"When you're talking about the issues that affect working Coloradans, that's what's moving the needle," O'Dea told Fox News Digital in a statement. "We're talking about record inflation, record crime, and diesel that's over $5 a gallon. That's what matters to working Americans, and that's why we're going to win on Tuesday."

The Real Clear Politics average of Colorado polls shows Bennet with a lead of 5.3% which is far tighter than polls in August and September that showed Bennet up by double digits.

O’Dea has targeted Bennet on his ties to President Biden’s economy as voters across the country have told pollsters that inflation is their main concern heading into the midterm elections. Additionally, O’Dea has focused on illegal immigration, including during a visit to the southern border this week when he accused Democrats of "doing nothing" to address the ongoing migrant crisis.

Bennet has pushed back on O’Dea’s characterization of his record and called the Republican challenger a "liar" in a recent debate.

COMMENT:  O'Dea is an anti-Trump Republican, and his dramatic rise thus comes without a Trump endorsement.  I still think it's a long shot for O'Dea, but the pattern of his progress mirrors that of many other Republicans:  Once voters heard the Republican side, an impressive number signed on, especially in the last two months.  Republicans have run a good, issues-based campaign, and they've listened to the voters.  They also are building an incredible presidential bench for the 2024 campaign.   Donald Trump's renomination is far from assured.

Compare please to the Democratic Party.  Who have they got for president in 2024?  I hear silence.  Oh wait, someone just said Hillary Clinton.

November 4, 2022       Permalink 

NOVEMBER 3,  2022

BULLETIN:  Oprah Winfrey has just endorsed John Fetterman for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.  We are waiting for the morning markets to react.  We understand that Beverly Hills has put its nuclear forces on alert.  You don't get news this big every day. 

Okay, stop laughing.  Next story.

OUR LARGEST STATE IS A FAILING BLUE MESS:  California, there I go.  Many are leaving, fewer are coming.  From Fox Business: 

A recent report from the Hoover Institution highlighted the ongoing exodus of companies pulling their headquarters out of California to escape the Golden State’s high tax and regulatory environment. 

According to the report, released on Oct. 25, California business headquarters in 2021 left the state at twice their rate in both 2020 and 2019 and at three times their rate in 2018. 

Over the last three years, California lost 11 Fortune 1,000 companies, whose exits are expected to negatively affect the state’s economy. 

The authors say the growing exodus comes down to economics, "plain and simple," noting that state and local policies have raised business costs that are unmanageable. Consequently, businesses are choosing to move their headquarters to states with more favorable climates such as lower taxes and lower living costs. 

The exodus, according to the report, is happening across many industries, including manufacturing, aerospace, financial services, real estate, chemicals, health care, and high-technology businesses. 

Big-tech legacy firms like Hewlett-Packard Enterprises, Oracle, and Tesla command the most media attention when they leave California. But the state, the report notes, is also losing smaller businesses which spells negative implications for California’s economic future. 

Texas remains a major destination for businesses leaving California. But businesses are also moving to other states with lower business costs and better business climates than California, according to the report. 

"Policies have driven business and housing costs so high that companies and people are leaving the state for more affordable, less regulated, and less taxed locations," the report says. "This process will continue until the state’s political leaders make very different policy choices that create a different future for California—one that honors its remarkable past."    

COMMENT:  California is committing economic suicide because its Democratic Party, which runs the state, has been taken over by leftist extremists and ideological socialists.  They care little for the state's future, as long as they can get some political victory now.  It's how leaders show off to followers, and remain leaders.

The hottest states economically are Texas and Florida.  But don't count out places like Tennessee.  I know New Yorkers who are moving there, and can't wait.

One can wonder whether the voting of Californians will show concern for the state's economic prospects.  I'd imagine that day is coming, but it might not be next Tuesday.

Remember, in  better time for the state, Ronald Reagan was governor.

November 3, 2022       Permalink