I will start by saying that the warnings about the pitfalls of the party endorsing in contested partisan races continues to play out day by day, month by month and so on down the line. Ground Zero I have talked to a lot of stakeholders in the California AD03 Race...
I will start with a snippet about Steve Hilton. I am actually pleasantly surprised at the performance of his campaign. All the signs I am seeing indicate that he is getting as much traction as you can expect for a candidate starting out against a 23% registration...
The following blog represents the opinions of Aaron F Park Your intrepid blogger, and are not reflective of the opinions of others (but they should be…) The ballot in South Placer County is pretty boring with a few high impact local races. The biggest pattern...
IF you pay attention to politics in CA, you are 100% aware that Heath Flora was removed and replaced as Assembly Republican Permanent Minority leader recently. The vote was 10-9 and the event was being literally texted about in real time. Within minutes of the...
For years, Americans have been told their country is fundamentally broken. We’re supposedly hopelessly divided, systemically unfair, irredeemably discriminatory, and one cultural disagreement away from complete societal collapse. If you listened only to cable...
Washington has spent years telling Americans that the immigration debate is complicated. The voters appear to have a simpler question. If it’s illegal to hire illegal workers… why aren’t employers being punished for doing it? Apparently,...
Washington may want to prepare itself for a difficult conversation with the American people. The message voters are sending ahead of this fall’s midterm elections is becoming increasingly clear: They’re tired of the people currently in charge. Not just...
There are certain things Americans expect to happen quickly. A credit card transaction. A text message. A food delivery order. Apparently, however, counting votes in California is not one of them. In what may be the only industry where taking more than a month to...
Five years after the 2020 election, America still has one very large, very unresolved problem: A massive portion of the country no longer fully trusts the electoral system. Not the candidates. Not the campaigns. The system itself. And whether Washington likes it or...
Barring some sort of massive (ahem) surge of democrat ballots – Hilton and Pratt make their respective runoffs. This gives a Republican Governor Candidate for an open Governor Seat for the first time since Prop 14 passed, and a viable Republican Mayor of LA...
There’s an old rule in modern American politics: Today’s “dangerous conspiracy theory” has an annoying habit of becoming tomorrow’s congressional hearing. And nowhere is that transformation more obvious than the ongoing public reassessment of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Americans have reached a fascinating place politically. They trust their phones to: hold banking information unlock their homes track their children and recommend suspiciously accurate late-night purchases But ask them whether they fully trust electronic voting...