Author: Alan Rosenfeld

The five Senate seats most likely to flip Pennsylania.  Incumbent Republican Senator Pat Toomey is not running for re-election.  In 2020 Biden very narrowly won the state over Trump by a margin of 1.16 percent.   In 2016 Trump beat Clinton by an even smaller margin of 0.72 percent. Democrat John Fetterman has a substantial advantage Read More

There are really only five possible outcomes of the midterm elections. The Republicans win control of the House and the Senate. Nightmare scenario. Nothing good will happen. The crazies will be in control of the budget and will threaten default (refuse to pass debt ceiling increases unless Biden agrees to cuts in social spending). The Read More

It is less than a half a year now until the critical 2022 midterm elections. Most people (especially those who are likely to read this) know that the US Senate is split exactly evenly (50-50) with VP Harris providing the tie breaking vote and the Democrats have just a tiny 13 seat majority (221-208) with Read More

The Pennsylvania Senate primary is tomorrow and it both critical and fascinating. CRITICAL – because the election in November 2020 will determine a replacement for retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey and this (Pennsylvania) is the best pick up opportunity for the Dems. With the Senate split 50-50 (and Kamala Harris breaking the tie) maintaining control Read More

My EPIC road trip began in Yachats, Oregon on Monday December 20, 2021 and lasted until Saturday February 26, 2022. A total of 69 days (one day shy of ten weeks). I drove down the pacific coast to Pismo Beach and then across the southwest on I-10 all the way to Pensacola, Florida. Then over Read More

My car is packed and we are ready to leave Tucson, Arizona and begin Week Ten. This may be the final week of my road trip. I will stop first for a nice breakfast (Jerry has already had his breakfast of dry food covered with sardines in oil as well as about 6 sausages from Read More

Starting the long final push west, from and through Texas to the Pacific Ocean. It will be approximately 1,350 miles from San Antonio to Los Angeles. I will be going through the Arizona desert, and I expect it will be hot in the daytime and cold at night. I am already at 10,371 miles for Read More

Conventional wisdom says that the Dems are doomed to suffer a severe midterm election defeat that will cost them control of both the House and the Senate. After all – since 1938 the party of the incumbent president has lost seats in the House in every mid-term election except for two. In fact since World Read More

Week nine of my “last big road trip begins” (I am just about to reach 10K miles) and I am finishing up the last day of my long weekend in New Orleans. A couple of thoughts. New Orleans truly is one of the great American cities. I know some will disagree about the exclusion of Read More

At the beginning of the trip, I stopped in Pensacola and had a lovely time. I stayed at a Hyatt Place hotel near the airport and relaxed after the long initial drive across the country from LA. I enjoyed the dog parks in Pensacola but discovered that the high lite of each day was taking Read More