MicroGroks
With 48+% of the vote, Joe Biden took the lead early and then ‘killed it’ in South Carolina. Not just a win but a Yuge win; he takes 33 delegates. Bernie Sanders barely qualified for delegates with 19%, gets 11 delegates. Tom Steyer, who placed third, only gathered 11% of the vote and zero delegates.
South Carolina was Joe Biden’s lifeline: If he didn’t do well here, he would be toast, but it looks like James Clyburn’s endorsement has kept the African-American vote “on the plantation.”**
Is Mayor Pete in a primary tailspin? After robbing Bernie of Iowa he appeared poised to take the role of Vanilla Obama (previously held by pasty white Robert Francis O’ Rourke – remember him?). But Pete was first loser in NH and second loser in Nevada where he barely qualified.
Buh-Bye Biden (that’s my new nickname for Quid Pro Joe) expects a lousy finish in the Granite State. He has left for warmer waters. That means he won’t even be here for his “victory” party tonight. And that sounds about right.
Trey Gowdy, former Congressman from South Carolina, will join the Trump impeachment defense team, according to reports. Gowdy rose to prominence during the Benghazi hearings, chairing the United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi. He did not run for reelection in 2018 in order to pursue a legal …
Mark Sanford is challenging Trump for the Republican nomination. But he has his work cut out for him. His own party isn’t holding a Republican primary in his home state of South Carolina.
David Brooks is “the conservative columnist” for the New York Time (“NYT”); the adjective “Conservative” would never be used as a modifier to his name here in NH – and am most assuredly positive that my sentiment would be replicated with many others in other states. But even as he opines as a New Yorker, …
So is it any surprise that the unions and their pet government bureaucracy the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the epitome of the fox in the hen house, didn’t want Boeing to move any of its manufacturing from Washington State (where employees are forced to join unions), to South Carolina (where workers have actual rights.)
