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.Those of you who know me know that I’ve moved on from polls in early 2016 when all but two (Trafalgar and People’s Pundit Daily—now Big Data Poll) were proven wrong. Never going back. You also know that using other measures, namely the same ones that allowed me in early 2016 to predict a Trump electoral college victory of “300-320 electoral votes” (final was 306), I think President Donald Trump is headed for a decisive win. No victory can be called a “landslide” without the states of California, New York, and Illinois, which Trump won’t get. But he’ll come in...

Joy Tiz ©2010 In the real world, an employee fired for insubordination, incompetence and stealing from the company is directed to clean out his desk and leave the premises forthwith under the watchful eye of a security guard. The disgruntled former employee is ordered never to return with or without a gun. In Washington, not only do we let fired representatives hang around, we actually allow them to keep running the country. And like disgruntled former employees are wont to do, the current congress is vandalizing the nation. The whole lame duck session was never a particularly great idea. Common...

FindLaw's commentary: As thus stated, the exact term of the President and Vice President was fixed by the Constitution, Art. II, Sec. 1, cl. 1, at 4 years, and became actually effective, by resolution of the Continental Congress, on the 4th of March 1789. Since this amendment was declared adopted on February 6, 1933, Sec. 1 in effect shortened, by the interval between January 20 and March 4, 1937, the terms of the President and Vice President elected in 1932. Similarly, it shortened, by the intervals between January 3 and March 4, the terms of Senators elected for terms ending...

Activists seeking to eliminate the Electoral College in favor of a popular vote to elect the president boast that their movement is almost one-fifth the way to its goal. Four states – Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey – which represent 50 of the 270 electoral votes needed to declare a presidential election winner, have committed to an agreement whereby they would grant their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, a move that – if adopted by enough states – would reduce the Electoral College to irrelevancy. With most of the nation's states considering similar bills...

Since nobody on Capitol Hill cares about the Constitution, this constitutes trivia. The musical interlude at the inauguration ceremony that extended for about six minutes after 12 Noon today, after Joe Biden had already taken the oath of office as vice president, temporarily prevented Barack Obama from taking the presidential oath. Obama did not, as at least one TV commenter said, automatically become president at Noon. The Constitution is explicit. The president-to-be must take the oath and the outgoing president's term of office ends at 12 Noon. This is not a monarchy where the transfer of power takes place strictly...

Regular Guy Paul linked to an Ann Coulter column suggesting that if we took the vote away from women, we'd never have another Democratic president.  I'm almost tempted to sidetrack this post because I caught a hilarious comment in the comments section that rebutted the notion that fascism is a leftist ideology - it most definitely is - but that's for another day. I'm not even interested in Coulter's comments per se, considering they were mostly tongue-in-cheek, but something that Paul said caught my attention. Generally speaking, I would support repealing all the Constitutional amendments of the 20th century. So...

November 2: The election is close. Across Ohio, Florida, Pennesylvania and perhaps other states, the margin of victory is slim; perhaps o­nly 1-2,000 votes each. Both sides claim victory. Both sides can show evidence of voter fraud where they lost. Lawsuits start flying, and recounts begin. (Start flying? They are already!) The rules for counting votes change daily according to which judicial authority is consulted. The election becomes a toss up, Florida 2000 times ten, or a hundred. Public backlash begins against both sides over the election being decided in the courts again...what happens? What can happen? If you look...