Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Sometime in the next couple of weeks I am going to publish my final thoughts on the midterm elections. Back when I was doing radio I would do this for 12-15 races every cycle. It was kind of weird. I got everything right, including upsets no one saw coming, except for one […]
Read More The Gettysburg Election(This is, by far, the longest post I have ever written here. I won’t blame you at all if you don’t read all of it. I thought of shortening it, but then I thought it would be useful for you to see some of the highlights of how I approach topics for analysis. If you […]
Read More Analytical OverdriveBy Charlie Johnston On Sunday, September 20, we will host a virtual retreat via a global ZOOM meeting. It will begin at 5 pm Eastern Time, 4 pm CT, 3 pm MT, and 2 pm PT. So it will be early afternoon on the West Coast and late afternoon on the East Coast. We will […]
Read More Join Us Sunday For a Late Afternoon ZOOM MeetingBy Charlie Johnston Fifty years ago, during the Bicentennial year,. I was a young aide to Congressman Robert McClory. I was his driver and wrote some speeches and such for him. He spent most of his weekends in the district and the week in Washington. He left his car at a hotel he used during […]
Read More Forever May She WaveBy Charlie Johnston Up until I was in my late 40’s, I could not wear a watch. If I tried, within three days it would stop. Every time. If I took it off, after a few days it would start running again. But if I put it back on it would rarely last an hour. […]
Read More The Best of Times, The Worst of TimesBy Charlie Johnston When I was running a group of Chicago-area weekly newspapers, I occasionally brought volunteers in to run polls on heated local races, under my supervision. It worked out well. The furthest we were ever off from the final result was less than 3 points. There is a bona fide science to classic […]
Read More We Were Polling Along…In the brief run-up to the American Civil war between Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration and the start of hostilities, the new president was visited by a host of “peace committees,” urging him to let the rebellious states go in peace, forming two countries from one. Lincoln believed such a peace would only be illusory, setting off […]
Read More Birthing PainsBy Charlie Johnston In America we settle disputes with ballots, not bullets. Fascists use bullets and violence to get their way. Communists use coercion and force to achieve their aims. Authoritarians rig elections to make their depredations look genuine. In America, we settle disputes with ballots, not bullets. But we have the biggest fascist, communist, […]
Read More We Hold These Truths…By Charlie Johnston You have probably heard by now that the last remaining criminal charge against David Daleiden has been expunged and dismissed. It began over 10 years ago when Harris County in Texas (Houston) convened a grand jury to investigate Planned Parenthood (PP) after the revelations Daleiden made in his undercover videos (most of […]
Read More A Champion Prepares a Cultural GamechangerBy Charlie Johnston A lot of people and commentators are deeply concerned the Republicans are going to blow the midterm elections. It is not an irrational concern. Wobbly Republicans have blown a lot of elections over the years. With too many Republicans in the Senate taking the “20” side of the 80-20 issue of voter […]
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