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WHAT IS BILL SCHUETTE DOING THESE DAYS? HERE IS ONE LEGACY …

November 19, 2020 by tbreport 1 Comment

Feeding the Hungry: Three Decades of Harvest Gathering November 19, 2020 by tbreport Leave a Comment (Edit) “Let us not grow weary while doing good.” — Attorney General Bill Schuette, quoting from Galatians, Section VI, Verse 9, before hundreds of virtual gatherers at the state’s 30th Annual “Harvest Gathering” connected by ZOOM early this week […]

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WALL STREET JOURNAL TELLS HOW DEMOCRATS HARVESTED 2020 ELECTION

November 14, 2020 by tbreport 2 Comments

Harvesting the 2020 Election: Pelosi’s top priority was remaking the electoral system. The virus gave her a boost. By Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal/Opinion Nov. 14, 2020     WSJ Opinion: A Democratic Strategy for Election Chaos Potomac Watch: Since Nancy Pelosi retook the speaker’s gavel in 2019, her top priority has been remaking the […]

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NEVER-TRUMPER ASSESSES THE ELECTION CARNAGE

November 13, 2020 by tbreport 9 Comments

Bob LaBrant is firing still another shot. Will it be his last? The retired attorney, now in quarantine in rural Perry outside Lansing, was the architect, along with former Gov. John Engler and a few others like the late Ambassador Peter Secchia, of most of the Michigan Republican Party’s electoral success over the past four […]

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WHAT HAPPENED NOV. 3rd? HERE’S THE BEST ANALYSIS EVER!

November 10, 2020 by tbreport 9 Comments

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – NOVEMBER 06: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addresses the nation at the Chase Center November 6, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. By John Judis Talking Points Memo Nov. 10, 2020 A lot of people, including me, were misled by opinion polls into thinking that Democrats would make out like bandits in this election […]

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NATION SPLIT RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE SO FAR IN 21st CENTURY

November 9, 2020 by tbreport Leave a Comment

Opinion We’re still living in a 49% nation by Michael Barone, Senior Political Analyst The Washington Examiner| November 10, 2020 In early 2001, in the wake of the closely contested 2000 presidential election, I wrote an Introduction to The Almanac of American Politics called “The 49 percent nation.” Not only was the popular vote for […]

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JOSEY BALLENGER RUNAWAY WINNER IN TCAPS BOARD ELECTION; THREE INCUMBENTS OUSTED

November 8, 2020 by tbreport 4 Comments

Change on TCAPS board as 3 challengers unseat incumbents By Brendan Quealy bquealy@record-eagle.com TRAVERSE CITY RECORD-EAGLE Nov 5, 2020 TRAVERSE CITY — Tuesday was an anomaly for a local board of education race. All three incumbent candidates for the Traverse City Area Public Schools Board of Education were ousted from their seats. Any incumbent losing […]

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MICHIGAN ONE OF SIX KEY STATES IN PRESIDENTIAL SWEEPSTAKES TODAY

November 3, 2020 by tbreport Leave a Comment

Michigan Key battlegrounds: Of all the battleground states that flipped from blue to red four years ago, Michigan still appears most likely to swing back to supporting the Democratic nominee. Recent polls have brought Biden’s average lead down to about 6.5-percentage points, but that’s still larger than the apparent edge Hillary Clinton had headed into the election […]

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DEMOCRATIC PARTY STRATEGY FOR WINNING MICHIGAN THIS YEAR

October 27, 2020 by tbreport 1 Comment

AdChoices The 11,000 Votes That Haunt Michigan Democrats Edward-Isaac Dovere The Atlantic magazine Oct. 27, 2020  In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan by the narrowest margin of any state—10,704 votes. © Jim Watson / AFP / Getty “There are 11,000 more votes in Detroit,” Garlin Gilchrist told himself that night. “There are 11,000 Black men […]

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AUSTRALIA GETS IT RIGHT: ‘DOWN UNDER’ GETS WHAT’S GOING ON BETTER THAN WE DO

October 26, 2020 by tbreport Leave a Comment

From The Sydney Morning Herald: Seven reasons this year’s US election is not a repeat of 2016 By Matthew Knott The Sydney Morning Herald Oct. 27, 2020first published at 2.23pm Washington: With just nine days remaining until the US presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden continues to lead President Donald Trump by significant margins in […]

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IS DONALD TRUMP ‘TOO OBNOXIOUS’ TO WIN MICHIGAN AGAIN?

October 20, 2020 by tbreport 10 Comments

Yes, according to Bill Ballenger, publisher of The Ballenger Report. Ballenger and three other pundits were quizzed by Michigan Information & Research Service (MIRS) on Monday, Oct. 19, as to how they felt about various hot button issues with two weeks left until the Nov. 3 general election. Here are the questions and Ballenger’s answers: […]

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