SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:

AMERICAN VOTERS ACTING SILLY – FROM RASMUSSEN:  Michelle Obama has been making the rounds promoting her new book, prompting buzz about a potential presidential run, which she has vehemently denied. But with the midterms over and the focus on 2020, voters think she’d stand a chance.  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that, in a hypothetical matchup, 50% of all Likely U.S. Voters would vote for Obama over President Trump. Forty-three percent (43%) would vote instead for Trump’s reelection.  By comparison, a survey in January found TV personality Oprah Winfrey beating Trump 48% to 38% in a hypothetical 2020 matchup. Last month, Democratic fan favorite Senator Elizabeth Warren just barely edged out Trump 46% to 44% in a hypothetical matchup.  I assume these numbers would change dramatically if any of these characters actually ran, and had to prove themselves.

A GOOD STATEMENT – FROM CNN:  The founder of the Women's March is calling for the movement's current co-chairs to step down for allowing bigotry into their mission.  Teresa Shook, a lawyer and educator who founded the Women's March movement, accused the group's current co-chairs -- Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez -- of associating with bigoted outside groups and tarnishing the Women's March's initial goals in a post on her Facebook page Monday.  The co-chairs "have steered the Movement away from its true course. I have waited, hoping they would right the ship," Shook wrote. "But they have not. In opposition to our Unity Principles, they have allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs."  "I call for the current Co-Chairs to step down and to let others lead who can restore faith in the Movement and its original intent," Shook added. "I stand in Solidarity with all the Sister March Organizations, to bring the Movement back to its authentic purpose."  A great statement, but I doubt if the leftist, bigoted fanatics will step aside. 

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS – FROM THE WEATHER CHANNEL:   Another blast of cold air is expected to bring one of the coldest Thanksgivings on record for some Northeast cities.  A strong area of high pressure from the Arctic Circle will descend southward across Canada and into the Northeast, sending temperatures plummeting toward levels more common on New Year's Day, not Thanksgiving Day.  For some Northeast cities, high temperatures on Thanksgiving could be close to the coldest on record no matter what day of the month the holiday was celebrated (e.g. Nov. 22, Nov. 24, Nov. 26, etc.)...Low temperatures Thanksgiving morning and Black Friday will likely be 15 to 25 degrees below average for late November.  Al Gore could not be reached for comment.

November 19, 2018