Commentary By Brian Joondeph

Does Everyone Hate What Trump is Doing? Far from It By Brian C. Joondeph

On social media, one might get the impression that Americans who voted for President Donald Trump now feel buyer’s remorse.

What if Trump Finishes His Presidency by Easter? By Brian C. Joondeph

President Donald Trump is off to a blazing start, having accomplished more in two weeks than most administrations achieve in months or even years. At this blistering pace, what happens if he finishes his presidency by Easter?

By finished, I don’t mean that he is forced from office through impeachment or assassination, but he gets so much done in his first three months that nothing is left to do.

Another Independence Day Approaches By Brian C. Joondeph

Independence Day, celebrated on July 4 of every year, is a national holiday commemorating the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, which established the United States of America, gaining freedom from British subjugation and tyranny.

Biden’s Christmas Gift to Trump: A Partridge in the Syrian Pear Tree By Brian C. Joondeph

President Joe Biden may not always be aware of his surroundings or activities, but he surely knows that Christmas is approaching. He is playing the role of Santa Claus, preparing his sleigh with holiday treats for his White House successor, Donald Trump.

What’s the Mood of America Post-Election? By Brian C. Joondeph

Election 2024 is almost a month behind us. President-elect Donald Trump has selected his Cabinet, while some states are still finishing counting their ballots.

How Did the Polls Perform? Winners and Losers By Brian C. Joondeph

Election 2024 is in the rearview mirror. Pollsters won’t be bombarding voters with phone or email polls. Today’s entertainment is liberal heads exploding on social media or the latest Democrat threatening but not actually following through on everything from drinking cyanide to setting themselves on fire or leaving the country if Donald Trump won the election.

Less Than a Week Until the Big Day – Where are the Polls? By Brian C. Joondeph

Election 2024 is less than a week away. Media reports, particularly on social media, are in a gaslighting frenzy of fake news and misinformation. It is hard to know what to believe and what is nonsense. Opinion polls, while hardly perfect, at least provide a quantitative peek behind the electoral curtain.

Trump-mentum Peaking with the Autumn Leaves By Brian C. Joondeph

Election Day is rapidly approaching, and Donald Trump is teaching a master class in campaigning and peaking at the right time. Fortunately, he is still the Republican candidate despite efforts to remove him from the ballot through lawfare and several failed assassination attempts.

Climate Change Danger – Truth or Misinformation? By Brian C. Joondeph

Climate change continues to be a hot election issue, at least for Democrats.

At the recent vice-presidential debates, one of Republican J.D. Vance’s several debate opponents, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, when asking about Hurricane Helen, started not with disaster relief, but the usual Democrat canard of climate change: “Scientists say climate change makes these hurricanes larger, stronger and more deadly because of the historic rainfall.”

Is this the important issue Democrats claim it to be?

Pew Research ranked climate change 10th on a list of 10 top issues for voters in the 2024 election.

Harris’s Ghosts from Polling Past By Brian C. Joondeph

In Charles Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol,” curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by Christmas past, present, and future ghosts, transforming him into a kinder and more generous soul.

Barely Six Weeks Until Election Day: Where are the Polls? By Brian C. Joondeph

Election Day is quickly approaching, just over six weeks away. Each day brings surprises, from another assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump to another "I grew up as a middle-class kid" from Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Election is On! What Are the Polls Saying? By Brian Joondeph

Both nominating conventions are past and election season is heating up. It’s not yet the home stretch but certainly the second half of the game.

Harris Polling Better than Trump? Fat Chance By Brian Joondeph

What a few weeks it’s been! Starting with President Joe Biden’s trainwreck debate performance a few weeks ago, stumbling and stuttering, with his zinger “We finally beat Medicare,” to an attempted and bungled assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

The Question Trump Needs to Ask Repeatedly Until November 5 By Brian Joondeph

The upcoming election is unique in that both current candidates have a record to run on. Not as a senator or governor, but as the U.S. President, each having served a term in the White House.

Forget the National Polls – It’s the Battleground State Polls that Count! By Brian Joondeph

Election season is well underway. President Joe Biden is mumbling and stumbling his way toward his party’s nomination for a second term, the final nail in the coffin of American greatness and exceptionalism.

Polls Have Been Popping for Trump By Brian Joondeph

The 2024 presidential election is less than six months away. Corporate media outlets are calling it a “tight race.” It probably is, as have been most recent presidential elections, but what do the polls say?

Is the GOP the Stupid Party? By Brian Joondeph

The Republican Party has the reputation and hence the name, “The Stupid Party." They nominate weak candidates, fight with each other in a circular firing squad, give good concession speeches and, if somehow elected, then govern against the will of the people they supposedly represent.

Democrats are Getting Desperate (But Do They Have an Ace Up Their Sleeves?) By Brian Joondeph

President Joe Biden is not popular these days. In the Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll from April 11, only 22% of likely US voters strongly approve of Biden’s job performance. In comparison, 46% strongly disapprove, a 24-point negative swing.

Election 2024 – It’s the Border, Stupid By Brian Joondeph

During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, his advisor James Carville crafted the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid” to highlight the US recession under then-President George H.W. Bush.  Bush also had his share of “stupid” by raising taxes after uttering his famous promise, “Read my lips, no new taxes.”

Lost Trust in Healthcare Experts – What Happened? By Brian Joondeph

Trust is foundational in relationships, whether between two individuals or between individuals and institutions.

A Gallup survey from last summer found, “Americans’ faith in major societal institutions hasn’t improved over the past year following a slump in public confidence in 2022."