Election Reflection, Part I: How Scared Should We Be?
Four years ago, we thought it was all over. We really believed we could leave behind the national nightmare that was Trump, and look ahead t
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Sep 269 min read
Senate on the Edge: The State of the Races
Now that we have moved into the post-conventions, post-debates, post-candidate-switches, post-assassination-attempts phase of the...
Nov 6, 202310 min read
One Eye on the Future: The Toteboard's 2024 Senate Preview
We are now one year away from the 2024 elections, which means it’s time for theToteboard to give its first official preview of the Senate...
Dec 4, 202211 min read
A Runoff Run-on: Is Georgia Really a Purple State or is it Still Red and Why Does it Matter . . . ?
So, who is going to win the Georgia senate runoff? Well, no one really knows, not even the Toteboard. (You can stop reading if you were...
Nov 18, 20227 min read
Post-Midterm Postmortem: That Was the Election That Was
Now that the midterms are ten days in the rear-view mirror, even as a handful of House races are still undecided, it’s clear that the...
Nov 7, 20224 min read
How to Understand (and Stay Sane During) the Election Returns: A Guide to the Angst-Ridden
If you have made it this far without losing your sanity, or relinquishing your membership in the human race, you know what the...
Nov 1, 20227 min read
The State of the Disunion: One Week to the Midterms
THE SETTING: As the Toteboard has been saying since January last year – that’s twenty-two months ago – next week’s midterm elections are...
Oct 9, 20229 min read
Midterm Elections Update: The Faster They Go, the Rounder They Get
Until anything happens that changes the political landscape in a dramatic way, we are looking at a midterm election cycle that may not...
Aug 8, 202212 min read
The Toteboard's Latest Take on the Midterms
It is now exactly three months until the mid-term elections, and time once again for the Toteboard to take a look at the summer...
Jul 26, 20228 min read
Post-Dobbs Fallout: This One Goes to Eleven
A friend was recently recalling the time three years ago, when she was bit by a rattlesnake while jogging in a marginally accessible part...
May 27, 20224 min read
Primary Update: The Georgia Repudiation
As noted in the Toteboard last month, Georgia owns the singular distinction of serving as Trump’s primary (pun intended) vendetta state....
May 8, 202213 min read
2022 Midterm Elections Update!
Well, today is Mother’s Day, but it also marks exactly six months from the 2022 midterm elections, which means it’s time for the...
Jul 1, 20216 min read
If it Quacks like a Racist . . .
Now that MLB’s decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Georgia has inextricably linked baseball and voting rights, the Toteboard has...
Feb 15, 202115 min read
2022 Midterm Preview: A First Look at the Senate
Well, now that we’ve all made it through the Georgia runoffs, the Capitol riots, Biden’s inauguration, the Superbowl, the second...
Jan 25, 202110 min read
The Sorry Legacy of the Trump Era
With the inauguration of Joe Biden, the swearing in of three ethnically iconic democratic senators, the expulsion of Trump from the White...
Jan 13, 20214 min read
Once Upon a Time in Georgia
At an educational institution in GA a couple of months ago, the full faculty voted on whether or not to change an important policy, one...
Jan 7, 20218 min read
Karma is a Bitch!
Buddhist mythology depicts an elaborate network of colorful realms where beings may go in their next life, as the result of the...
Jan 4, 20217 min read
Georgia Eve: Preview From Ground Zero!
In some ways, it’s very fitting that tomorrow’s senate runoff elections and Wednesday’s counting of the electoral votes more or less...
Dec 15, 202011 min read
Election Reflection, Part III: Georgia the Jungle
Note: this is the third of a series of Toteboard post-election reflections. It’s fair to say that a couple of months ago, no one really...
Dec 3, 202012 min read
Election Reflection, Part II: How Did Everybody Do?
Note: this is the second of a series of Toteboard post-election reflections. It is now exactly one month since election day, almost all...
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