Saturday, September 07, 2019

for Alan :-)


7 comments:

  1. We're making raisins Saturday--haven't been able to do it for five years. Who knew that the 36th wedding anniversary was the Organic Raisins anniversary? Will send along a photo from five years ago to listener.

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    1. Got home from Maine a short while ago and have just set the Making Raisins photo for tomorrow's blog.
      It looks like a delicious activity!!

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    2. We purchased, prepared and set out about 140 lbs of Princess grapes (a large seedless variety normally used as a table grape) to dry. When it was time to move them back into the garage (raccoons like them) they were changing color very noticeably.

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  2. How Trump Is Undermining GOP Incumbents [Click] This is an excerpt; the full article isn’t much longer.

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  3. Dare We Dream of the End of the G.O.P.? [Click] “In a new book, the pollster Stanley Greenberg predicts a blue tidal wave in 2020.” Available from Amazon [Click] or alibris.com [Click]

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    1. Here's the dust jacket blurb:

      A leading pollster and adviser to America’s most important political figures explains why the Republicans will crash in 2020.

      For decades the GOP has seen itself in an uncompromising struggle against a New America that is increasingly secular, racially diverse, and fueled by immigration. It has fought non-traditional family structures, ripped huge holes in the social safety net, tried to stop women from being independent, and pitted aging rural Evangelicals against the younger, more dynamic cities.

      Since the 2010 election put the Tea Party in control of the GOP, the party has condemned America to years of fury, polarization and broken government. The election of Donald Trump enabled the Republicans to make things even worse. All seemed lost.

      But the Republicans have set themselves up for a shattering defeat.

      In RIP GOP, Stanley Greenberg argues that the 2016 election hurried the party’s imminent demise. Using amazing insights from his focus groups with real people and surprising revelations from his own polls, Greenberg shows why the GOP is losing its defining battle. He explores why the 2018 election, when the New America fought back, was no fluke. And he predicts that in 2020 the party of Lincoln will be left to the survivors, opening America up to a new era of renewal and progress.
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      One interesting factoid: After the 2016 election Greenberg couldn't put Trump and Clinton voters in the same focus groups; the latter completely dominated the groups.

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