There are two ways to love and two ways to hate U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) in a poll at his hometown paper’s site. Grayson, of course, recently boiled down the Republican alternatives to health care reform as, “Don’t get sick,” and, “If you get sick, die quickly.” Now the Orlando Sentinel wants to know if you think he owes anyone an apology. Not to influence you, but puh-lease. As if. Seriously? O.K., just take the poll yourself.
Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Oct. 19, 2026
The United States and Ukraine no longer seem to be in synch,
After Trump lifted Russia sanctions with a grin and a wink.
Trump coordinated it with Putin,
Who ramped up the drone shooting,
After Trump and Elon Musk throttled Ukraine’s Starlink.
Verbatim
“Take, for example, the French Revolution. Remember when Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake’? Now, is that a problem of accountability and tyranny, a corrupt government? Or is it a problem of affordability and standard of living? It’s both! Authoritarianism and tyranny are extremely expensive for the people. And it’s the exact same thing when you go down the line with Donald Trump. So, are we going to go after the corruption? Yeah, you’re damn right. And are we going to go after affordability and making people’s lives easier? Yeah, you’re damn right. We’re going to do both of them.”
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by CBS News.
“Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”
— Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.
“If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now. This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. He saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream for ever.”
— Stephen Miller, quoted by The Guardian, pledging “total devotion” to President Trump.
Numerati
3,824
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats, reports Florida Phoenix. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Women make up 35.5% of all state legislative candidates this cycle. Currently, women hold about one-third of state legislative seats across the country — a record level of representation but nowhere near parity.
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$1.4 billion
“Prediction markets about the 2026 midterm elections have surpassed $1.4 billion in trading volume as Election Day fast approaches,” CNN reports. “This year has seen massive growth in the prediction industry, where people can bet on real-world events like sports, entertainment and the weather. While small-scale election markets have been around for a while, they gained traction before the 2024 presidential election and have seen huge numbers for the 2026 midterms.”
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-35 points
G. Elliot Morris: “Low-knowledge 2024 voters say they backed Trump by 8 points, according to our poll. Today they give him a net job approval of ?27, a 35-point shift. Compare that to Trump’s approval rating among voters who got both questions right: These voters backed Harris by 1 point and now give Trump a net ?24 approval, a 23-point shift. … Low-information voters have moved against Trump at a higher rate than high-information voters, by 12 points.”
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31%
President Donald ?Trump’s approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday. Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump’s ?performance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier and the lowest level in ?either of his presidential terms, the four-day poll showed.
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63% to 38%
KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”
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i support grayson…i find it outrageous that after all the lies and distortions the republicans have said, that this guy is coming under attack….republicans seem to get away with being untruthful and outrageous but don’t dare let a democrat “be in your face” with the truth
It would be great if the President and the Democratic Party responded like Grayson.
We need many more straight talkers like Grayson, he is a breath of fresh air.
Alan Grayson is my new hero. Someone has to speak the truth plainly. The GOP simply wants to disrupt the political process. Their main tactic is misinformation. We need a hundred more like Grayson.
Yes I support him 100%. He is not the only one with brass b__s in the congress. Another is congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio. The progressives need to support them 100%. you know now that the repubs will go after them when election time comes up. If all the dems would go after them like this, it would be very hard to punish a few brave leaders. When one of the filthy repubs get in trouble, they are night behind them. No matter what kind of trouble they are in. The dems need to go after these filthy phoney religous organizations, who give aid and comfort to these criminals. They are not going to vote for progressives anyway. S_rew Them!