The ballot measure has managed to stir up all the unhelpful emotions about immigration policy on both sides while doing virtually nothing substantive.
Monthly Archives: September 2024
Yes on Bolick and King, No on Prop. 137
The anti-retention campaign illustrates the threat retention elections pose to an independent judiciary, but Prop. 137 has too many flaws to be an acceptable alternative.
Why is Trump botching the immigration issue?
Trump wasn’t baited into talking about hardened criminals, pet eating, and mass deportations. That’s the way he chose to present himself on the issue.
Harris’s misguided debate prep
Her exclusive focus should be on crossing the presidential credibility and acceptability threshold with swing voters, not attempting to bait Trump into an eruption.
What does it mean for the state if there is a GOP Legislature, or a Democratic one?
There’s a lot for swing voters to weigh this election, beyond which of the specific candidates put before them is the less offensive.