by Doug Thompson | Oct 29, 2020 | Politics
As the story I wrote for this week’s Floyd Press reveals, more than 40 percent of our county’s registered voters have already voted — most of them at the special early balloting locations at the courthouse in Floyd. The turnout should set a record...
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...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 27, 2020 | Politics
Polls confirm what the last few elections in Virginia have shown: The Old Dominion is now a Democratic stronghold in the South. Polls show Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by 18 points on trust and 11 points in ballot choice. “Biden is running away with it,”...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 26, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Whenever I write a critical column about Donald Trump, my email box fills with insults, curses, and claims that I am “a lib-turd” or simply “a liberal.” What, I often wonder, is a liberal. I own enough weapons to start a revolution in some...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 25, 2020 | Politics
Courtesy of The Lincoln Project A lot of the friends I worked with during my time as a political operative for the National Republican Party are now working to defeat a GOP presidential re-election. They say the choice in this election is for America or Donald Trump....
by Doug Thompson | Oct 22, 2020 | Coronavirus, FUBAR, Politics
The Lincoln Project The Lincoln Project keeps up the pressure on the corrupt presidency of Donald Trump. This group is just one of the many gatherings of Republicans who are trying to make amends for letting their party become a willing coconspirator to the most...