Political Note #513 Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky elections

Check out the website: https://lenspoliticalnotes.com  Look at the recent Political Notes and Len’s Letters on the website:  October 13th   , 2022          Political Note #513 Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky elections 2022                          General Election This is the South.  Except for Georgia which is some kind of mixture of the South and an industrial state. Except for Tennessee and Kentucky which are border states.  South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi really are the South. Together, these states. Altogether, these states, which have a total population about half way between Texas and California, have 12 Senators to Texas’s 2.  Here is…

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103120 Lens Letters #33 What should the Democrats do about the Federal Courts?

Joe Biden’s Commission should propose an expansion of the District Courts and the Circuit Courts of Appeals.

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Political Note #332 The Campaign for the Senate

Can Democrats complete this cycle with a 56-44 US Senate majority?

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Women Candidates for Whom Donations Could Make a Difference

A reader asked. Can you put together a list of 30 candidates for the House of Representatives for whom donations would make a difference? Some Senate candidates, too?

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Political Note #287   James Mackler US Senate Tennessee

Check out the website: https://lenspoliticalnotes.com  Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website.   Political Note #287   James Mackler US Senate Tennessee 2020                             General Election When should a politician acquiesce?  Did James Mackler https://www.jamesmackler.com/  make a mistake in 2018?   He withdrew from the Senate race then.  Here are a couple of politicians who refused to acquiesce. Barack Obama. In 1996 he was a lawyer with a past as a community organizer.  Alice Palmer, the State Senator from his district, announced she was not running for reelection. …

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Political Note #91 Phil Bredesen TN US Senate

Phil Bredesen was a popular two term governor of Tennessee. Before that, he was a successful mayor of Nashville. Before that, he became a millionaire selling the insurance company he created. Before the insurance company, he had a career that included some mysterious classified work and work in London for an international pharmaceutical company. He brings a lot to the Senate race.

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