Offering new insight into the preferences of Democratic voters, a poll released Tuesday by The Des Moines Register and CNN found that nearly 60 percent of likely Iowa caucus-goers would support a presidential candidate with the name Bobby Cheeseburger. CONT. The Onion Read more »
Amy Klobuchar’s funny speech gives her a lift
It was midway through George W. Bush’s first term and the Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle, was being hammered for being an obstructionist. More specifically, he was being accused of using the power of the Senate to thwart the will of the President. As luck would have it, or perhaps […] Read more »
Howard Schultz Considering Independent Presidential Run After Finding No Initial Support Among Any Voter Groups
… “The complete lack of support for my candidacy among narrow interest groups like liberals, conservatives, and moderates tells me that America is hungry for an independent voice,” said Schultz, after preliminary polling found little to no support for his presidential bid among Democrats, African-Americans, evangelicals, working-class whites, suburbanites, Republicans, […] Read more »
Poll Shows Increasing Number Of Voters Blame Founding Fathers For Starting America
Shedding new light on the U.S. populace’s view of current national predicaments, a Monmouth University poll released Tuesday revealed that an increasing number of voters hold the founding fathers responsible for starting America. CONT. The Onion Read more »
SNL imagined a world without Trump as president. Trump was not amused.
The day after a “Saturday Night Live” sketch depicted what life might be like had Donald Trump never been elected, the president criticized what he called the show’s “one sided coverage” and suggested without any basis that it was defamation. “A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by […] Read more »
An anxious voter’s guide to understanding polls
It is the worst of times. It is the worst of times. It is the season of darkness. The midterm elections are tomorrow (!), and people insist on continuing (!!) to emit polls that are telling us things with degrees of certainty. The only lesson I have retained from 2016 […] Read more »