WHY YOUR VOTE TODAY WILL MATTER
Here’s a name I haven’t thought about in a couple of years, and happily so: Ann Selzer.
Selzer, you’ll recall, was the longtime once-respectable pollster for the Des Moines Register whose career went down in flames amid the fallout from a horribly skewed 11th-hour 2024 presidential poll that showed Donald Trump trailing Kamala Harris 47-44 in the Hawkeye State.
For context, a June Register poll showed Trump up by four over Harris. And for even more context, Trump ultimately ended up winning Iowa... by 13 points.
Selzer’s poll, however grotesque, was neither clever nor original. In fact, she was something of an electioneering piker. Recall that just four years earlier, an infamous Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Basement Joe Biden leading Trump by 17 points in Wisconsin just days before the election.
The result in Wisconsin? Biden did indeed beat Trump… by half a point. Mission accomplished.
It feels as if the march of history is accelerating now. The number of meaningful current events around the globe continues to grow.
It’s November and the temperature is falling and so are the leaves. In 2015, after 40+ years of a recurrent cycle of bronchitis-croup-pneumonia had scarred my lungs, a holistic doctor finally told me to take 5,000 IU of vitamin D3 every day from the beginning of leaf fall until the leaves come back out in the spring. I did so, and I have not had pneumonia since (or bronchitis or croup) – when I used to have it at least once every year, often twice, and one year three times!
U.S. — With the midterms finally over, Democrats across the nation felt an enormous sense of relief that they no longer had to keep pretending to be normal.
Lost in the current debate over Israel and Hamas is the utter transformation of the former over the last two decades.
We’re into five or six months now of the 
