Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
July 18-21, 2016 The 2016 Republican National Convention will be held at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. July 25th-28th, 2016 The 2016 Democratic National Convention will be held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. As we near the two conventions for the parties to officially declare their presidential Read more
From several surveys and data sources, these are the biggest issues Americans are concerned about in the 2016 Election: The Economy This area is detailed below. Joblessness (has fallen) Employment (remains depressed) Economic Output (has rebounded) Household Income (has fallen) Inflation (tame, flat) Home Prices (growing, but not back to Read more
While it is tempting to say King Donald was foisted upon us by the media and the 24-hour news cycle, that’s not entirely correct. Even though it is true that at times the American media has been a willing participant and enabler in Trump’s cynical reality show masquerading as a presidential campaign, he is an American monster, which is to say he comes from America itself. He is the inheritor and one of the great 21st century propagators of multiple lines of venomous thinking concerning race and gender that have existed in the American intellectual soil since its inception as a nation. Over the past eight years—in that soil—there has been an especially bitter and angry crop of these kinds of ideas growing (think Tea Party), which are rooted in the past and ripe for the picking, waiting for any politician to harvest and use them. Trump is the proud harvester of all of these poisonous and malignant ideas, and he uses them as the basis of his campaign.
Why are states called red states and blue states? Leave it to the media to start this identifying practice in the 1970s when television stations went to color from black and white. It was much snazzier to identify states as blue for Republican and red for Democrats now that they were Read more
This is the second post in a two-part series: ELECTION 2016: What the Heck is a Contested Convention? Why do U.S. presidential elections take so long? Each state chooses it’s Democratic and Republican candidate nominees beginning in February. This can last up to five months. Iowa and New Hampshire traditionally Read more
What is a Contested Convention? In the 2016 party nomination conventions, a Contested Convention can happen if no one candidate wins the required delegates going into the convention. Republicans require 1,237 delegates and Democrats require 2,382 delegates to win the nomination. If no candidate reaches these numbers, this means the party Read more
