Today brings an interesting choice with regard to the subject of this post. We have another liberal icon falling before the axe of sexual harassment. This time the admitted sex abuser is MSNBC/NBC News' analyst Mark Halperin. There are now at least 5 women who say Haperin abused them and he has been dumped by NBC and MSNBC. One minute MSNBC is laughing in derision at Fox News because of its problem in this area and the next MSNBC is suffering from its very own scadal.
Besides Halperin, we also have two election races where the script is being flipped. The first is in Alabama where the media told us that the GOP candidate for senate, Roy Moore, might lose to the Democrat. Indeed, the poll taken immediately after Moore won the primary showed a tie. The excitement in DC and other Democrat hangouts was palpable. Now, however, there have been a batch more polls and Moore has pulled into the lead by at least 14% over the Democrat in each. Things have returned to normal in Alabama. Then there's Virginia where the latest poll shows GOP candidate Ed Gillespie with an 8% lead over his opponent. This is causing panic among the Democrats around the country. Virginia has been trending to the Democrats for a while now. Obama carried it twice, and it was the only state in the South that Hillary won. Two months ago, the Democrat was up by double digits in the polls. Then came two important moments. First, Northam, the Democrat, airbrushed his African American running mate out of photos on some campaign materials because some Democrat campaign workers didn't want to hand out literature with the running mate's picture on it. It was the sort of racist (or seemingly racist) moment that aren't supposed to happen in American politics anymore, not even in the South. There's a real question how this is affecting black voters. Second, Northam is being painted by Gillespie as soft on crime. The MS-13 gang of mostly illegal aliens has been terrorizing parts of northern Virginia. Northam was the deciding vote when the Virginia senate passed a sanctuary city bill that would protect MS-13 from deportation. It's one thing to protect dreamers under DACA and another to protect murderers and felons from MS-13. The latest polls show a shift in voters in the northern part of the state towards Gillespie. It's too early to tell, but we could see a GOP win in a major upset in Virginia.
Then, of course, we have the amazing stories about the Trump dossier and Uranium One. I've already written about these, but they remain probably the biggest political scandals of the year. It's such a tough decision that I decided to write a bit about each.
Besides Halperin, we also have two election races where the script is being flipped. The first is in Alabama where the media told us that the GOP candidate for senate, Roy Moore, might lose to the Democrat. Indeed, the poll taken immediately after Moore won the primary showed a tie. The excitement in DC and other Democrat hangouts was palpable. Now, however, there have been a batch more polls and Moore has pulled into the lead by at least 14% over the Democrat in each. Things have returned to normal in Alabama. Then there's Virginia where the latest poll shows GOP candidate Ed Gillespie with an 8% lead over his opponent. This is causing panic among the Democrats around the country. Virginia has been trending to the Democrats for a while now. Obama carried it twice, and it was the only state in the South that Hillary won. Two months ago, the Democrat was up by double digits in the polls. Then came two important moments. First, Northam, the Democrat, airbrushed his African American running mate out of photos on some campaign materials because some Democrat campaign workers didn't want to hand out literature with the running mate's picture on it. It was the sort of racist (or seemingly racist) moment that aren't supposed to happen in American politics anymore, not even in the South. There's a real question how this is affecting black voters. Second, Northam is being painted by Gillespie as soft on crime. The MS-13 gang of mostly illegal aliens has been terrorizing parts of northern Virginia. Northam was the deciding vote when the Virginia senate passed a sanctuary city bill that would protect MS-13 from deportation. It's one thing to protect dreamers under DACA and another to protect murderers and felons from MS-13. The latest polls show a shift in voters in the northern part of the state towards Gillespie. It's too early to tell, but we could see a GOP win in a major upset in Virginia.
Then, of course, we have the amazing stories about the Trump dossier and Uranium One. I've already written about these, but they remain probably the biggest political scandals of the year. It's such a tough decision that I decided to write a bit about each.
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