Cobbloviate

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, "to bloviate" is to "discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner." It was a favorite term of President Warren G. Harding, who was quite the bloviator himself. Of Harding, critic and satirist H.L. Mencken wrote, "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string... of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the top most pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." Cobbloviate dedicates itself to the high standard set by President Harding. Into the Blue out of the Blue: Who's Responsible for the Democratic "Surprise" in Georgia, and What Does It Mean? By Jim Cobb on January 24, 2021 11:43 AM Into the Blue out of the Blue: Who's Responsible for the Democratic "Surprise" in Georgia, and What Does It Mean? The initial 'hot take" on Democrat Joe Biden's victory on November 3, emphasized the critical importance of traditionally Republican suburban white voters who crossed over to support Biden out of revulsion with President Donald Trump while remaining loyal to GOP candidates farther down the ticket. Subsequent examination suggests that this narrative hardly squared with actually voting patterns in the critical battleground state of Georgia, however. It is true that, along with Fulton, the state's three most populous suburban counties, Dekalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett accounted for over half of Biden's vote gains over Hillary Clinton four years ago, but it is also true that Cobb, by the margin of but a single point, is the only one of the trio where minorities are not in the majority. Beyond that, the Republicans also failed to hold the line in local races in these counties, which saw both Cobb and Gwinnett elect their first black sheriffs. The same patterns in voting and turnout seemed to hold in the ...Read More