Friday, January 10, 2020

The State of Play

The Iowa caucuses happen in less than a month, and the New Hampshire primary a couple of weeks later. After maybe a year of ‘foreplay,’ we will finally have preliminary results to consider.

Unusually, there is today no clear front-runner. The latest polls show 3-4 would-be nominees clustered tightly together percentagewise in the high teens to low twenties.

Maybe three are within the poll’s margin of error - effectively tied. It is entirely possible - though unlikely - a different Democrat will win each of the first four states.

Come November we at COTTonLINE will vote to reelect Trump. Consider us bemused bystanders watching the Democrats’ mud wrestling.

If we had to pick the Democrat we’d fear least if elected, I suppose it would be Klobuchar. Though far from an endorsement, it practically guarantees her losing the nomination.

The whole Dem party has gone bizarro. They seem to be following the U.K. Labour Party down the primrose path into irrelevancy.