by Doug Thompson | Nov 16, 2020 | Coronavirus, FUBAR, Opinion
An email exchange with an old friend, and fellow newspaper reporter, still living in and working in Washington, DC, reminded both of us that we are not getting any younger. Much of our discussion centered on aches of pains of age, along with the pain of dealing with...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 14, 2020 | FUBAR, Opinion, Politics
The headline of a column that appeared Friday afternoon got a lot of attention: “Trump’s racist appeals powered a White evangelical tsunami.” Columnist Dana Milbank tackled the question on how more than 70 million American voters turned out for...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 6, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Patience stood in the way of lies-laden bluster in the wee hours of Friday morning when leads of thousands of votes in Pennsylvania and Georgia for Donald Trump evaporated as counts continued and both became blue-leaning states. Biden now leads Trump by 5.600 votes in...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 5, 2020 | Musings, Opinion, Politics
Presidential campaign 2020 continues Thursday on the second day after voting. Not unexpected but sad. The divided nation that went to the polls in record numbers brought their steadfast partisan differences to an election that, sadly, will not help unify America....
by Doug Thompson | Nov 3, 2020 | Musings, Opinion, Politics
With cameras and notepad, I head out on this cool Tuesday presidential election morning to cover voters making their choice for a report to The Floyd Press, repeating a routine I have followed more than a dozen times over the last five decades. Sixteen years ago, I...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 28, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Courtesy of The Founders Sing Is is now a less than a week before the election that pollsters say will throw Donald Trump out of office. Of course, many of those same pollsters told us four years ago that he could never get into office. Americans, they said, are...