The Dash Files

This past Tuesday, Democrats continued their surprising streak of seriously awesome  victories in this off-year election by winning the Jacksonville, Florida mayoral election in what was considered by many media outlets to be a slight upset. The city of Jacksonville - which many people are unaware... is the largest city in Florida -  had only elected a Democrat once in last 3 decades, and had supported Republican candidates in national elections for years. After Ron DeSantis' landslide victory in the 2022 midterms, alongside Marco Rubio's similar margin of re-election, this was a shot in the arm for the dismembered Florida Democratic Party. I don't blame people for the celebratory attitude, but then people took it a liitttle too far. Democrats across the country declared that "Florida is back"; "Florida is purple again." Politico wrote a new story that " Biden could have a "potential lifeline for Florida Democrats. " I have one thing to sa...

In the last few days, many liberals have begun to freak out over what appears to be a series of nasty concessions from President Biden in regards to the negotiations on the debt limit. Among Biden's promises to work with Republicans on deficit reduction and permitting reform (two very good things), he appears to be budging on work requirements for food stamps. That jarring news from the White House put liberals in the media and in Congress into a complete shitcircus of doom and dispair. The Atlantic  already has an article titled " Why Biden Caved ." Paul Krugman published an Op-Ed on the New York Times - " Opinion | How Biden Blew It on the Debt Ceiling ."  I get it. There are genuine reasons for liberals to be afraid that Biden is going to throw too many bones to the Republicans and let the MAGA caucus chop down even more of our government services. In 2011, we really did come disastrously close to the passage of the so-called "Grand Bargain" that wo...

Here at the Dash Files, predictions are...kinda our thing. If we get it right, we get to pat ourselves on the back. If we get it almost right, we also get to pat ourselves on the back. If we get it horribly, terribly, embarrassingly wrong, we can still find solace in the fact that we tried. Okay, all kidding aside. A couple weeks ago, I already said that this joke of a Republican primary was over, and Trump was gonna win the whole thing. But now I'm ready to go further: Trump will win every single primary contest against Ron DeSantis. Yes, you heard me. Every. Single. One. This election season will mark the 52nd anniversary of the first real "presidential primary," where partisan voters of all 50 states have, for better and mostly for worse, gotten to choose their party's nominee. In that time, we have seen 17 party primaries in which no candidate of that party was the incumbent President. In only one of those did a candidate who was not the incumbent President win ev...

This Sunday, the political media had a proverbial implosion after the release of a poll by ABC/Washington Post, one of the highest rated blue-chip pollsters, showing President Biden losing to Donald Trump by a whopping 7 points in the popular vote, 49% to 42%. Despite the poll showing that a healthy majority of Americans believe Donald Trump should be prosecuted for his crimes, 49% of respondents said they would vote for the former President. Former Bill Clinton campaign advisor and ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos called it "just brutal for President Biden." Donna Brazile, Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager, and former DNC chair, said that she lost sleep over the poll. The Biden train must be coming off the rails, huh? The sky is falling and the world is ending! First off, without even diving into a single detail of the poll itself, we can debunk its plausibility with the most basic logic and deductive reasoning (a skill that the news media does not currently have). We...

First-term Democratic governor of Maryland Wes Moore has been one of my favorite punching bags on this blog, and today just gave me another chance at firing some shots at him. I spend a lot of time criticizing Democrats on this blog, my favorite targets being presidential hopefuls that I would like to see as far away from the Democratic nomination as possible, and that may make me seem like an angry, un-pragmatic liberal. Let me be clear: Every democrat I make a proverbial dump on is better than any current Republican office holder, and I would go to the polls to vote for every single one of them. But I could spend countless hours and write dozens of articles about the crazy Republicans on the right like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, but I don't think it really adds to an important political dialogue. We all know people like Marjorie are bad, and hearing that message echo off a thousand walls doesn't change a thing.  However, we are only four years away from the st...