president trump won by 11 points. no democrat has been elected to this house seat since 1980. we are having a very big problem. if a democrat can bring it to 1754 votes in terms of margin of difference between the two candidates, in this district, i am terrified as a republican because it confirmed z everything we ve been seeing on the ground, erosion of married suburban white women voting for gop candidates and giving the majority in both parties. they are abandoning the party. if what you re saying is last night s election is not about who won and what s to come, democrats shouldn t lick the wounds, but the chops. i look to the green party. 1% of the votes. had that one percent gone to o connor, he would actually be slightly and just slightly but within the margin and calling for a recount. is this a moment for the
benjamin franklin knew that. a master of words and images alike, he published america s first political cartoon in 1754. a snake cut into eight parts called join or die, urging british colonies to join together or be attacked by french and indian allies. for america with honest abe working to repair the union to europe with napoleon and william pitts splitting the world. for years cartoons have been used to convince, control, cajole and serve a healthy feeding of crow. today is no different. here is how the new york daily news responded to the helsinki summit. they used his fifth avenue comment against him by showing putin grasping one hand while trump shoots uncle sam with the other. another shows putin holding the president of the nra by the waist after he learned about a suspected russian agent who infiltrated the gun lobby. and the new yorker s latest issue is topped with this.
will never get past. and so many of these families are still fighting every day to make sense of it, but to also try to turn this tragedy into something good. you look at the numbers, the daily news, october 3rd wrote that there have been there s been nearly one mass shooting every day for the 1,754 days since the shocking slaughter of those 20 connecticut angels. and mike barnicle, there are times the american people, i mean, this shook the american people to the core. 90% of americans still support enhanced background checks. the number of americans that support a ban on assault-style
harkening back from the 20th century and later. but that doesn t stop the recurring rumors about words that sound like they could be an acronym, especially when the rumored acronym seems to make sense. like the rumor that golf stands for gentlemen only, ladies forbidd forbidden. it doesn t. or the rumor that cop stands for constable on patrol. it doesn t. or the rumor that newsstands for northeast southwest. nope. not true. probably one of the most prevalent rumors of all d one theory is that the word tip is an acronym for the phrase to insure promptness. to insure prompt service. right? isn t that what it stands for? the year was 1754. the scene, a fleet street coffeehouse in london where a bowl tastefully set in the middle of the table read to insure promptitude, t.i.
. it is an acronym for treasury inflation protected securities and for technical information and processing system and for transjug lu yar intrahepatic shunlt. but one thing tips is not is an acronym for to insure prompt service. or to insure promptitude despite the fact i used to think it was and really wanted it to be so. it was not born in a coffeehouse in 1754. it had been around far while before then making an appearance in print in 1707 in the comedy the bow stratagem with one of the protagonists while sharing his pickup techniques makes a reference to tipping the usher in order to get a good poc when woos women in a country church. back then it was more of a bribe, kind of an up-front payment to get what you want. now in modern-day america it s a ubiquitous extra payment for