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Jun 8Liked by Karen Gordo

Some light election reading this morning. It’s going to be interesting to see the dominoes falling up to November. It’s getting closer to decision time on Joe for the Dems. I thought they would use the debate in June to test his cognitive abilities and make a decision then, but the last couple times out have been brutal. This last debacle may have sealed his fate, although I’ve thought that previously. They’re running out of medical options.

A nice summary of elections elsewhere that normally aren’t on the radar. Great picture of the “milkshake “ incident. Frozen in time as it were.

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It's all frozen in time vignettes. If I were running the show, Joe would be once again portrayed as the "only" acceptable candidate and squeeze through the convention intact. (But watching the activities there to see where they are holding the real convention for the last minute replacements.)

We likely need one more dead sales job of Joe to reach the total idiots in the back. Especially after the June debate that will be the first last gasp!

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It's becoming clearer by the day that Rishi Sunak has no interest at all in winning the UK election and his only function is to make Starmer look relatively good. It would not surprise me at all if the Tories shouldered Rishi aside, with barely four weeks to make up ground, but it depends on how many of them have given up hope in any case. Reform Party (Farage) is damaging them badly this time.

I am in one of the few safe Tory seats in the southeasternmost part of England. The Labour candidate is some nonentity. (Out of my window I see two Green Party placards and one Labour.)

Within a few weeks, but probably not soon enough, I will have moved to the northeasternmost part of England where a former coal miner is seeking re-election for Labour. I hope he wins but Reform have to be regarded as a very real threat. (98% white electorate)

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