Author: Tom Cronin

Tom Cronin What happens when you read back-to-back books by a quirky celebrity computer scientist and a quirky celebrity statistician/gambler? You’re tempted to consider bigger and riskier bets, and you ask difficult questions about what and who will be determining our future. I recommend both books. But be prepared for strange new vocabulary, challenging new…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Sixty-seven million Americans watched an ABC presidential campaign debate last week between former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump spoke for about 43 minutes. Harris spoke for about 38 minutes. She was poised, confident and generally effective. He was dour, snarly, and as usual, undertook many…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Citizen Initiative 310, backed by a few Denver political reformers, will be on your Nov. 5 general election ballot. It proposes a major overhaul of how Coloradans would vote in state and congressional elections — but not for local and presidential elections. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); This reform is named ranked-choice voting…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy What a turnaround story. Democrats meeting at their national convention in Chicago showed President Joe Biden some love, yet they also showed him the exit door. Democrats feared a divisive national convention with multiple presidential contenders and the possibility of rioting pro-Palestinian protesters in the streets of the Windy City.…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Nobody could have predicted the stunning changes taking place in this year’s presidential election. Former President Donald Trump narrowly escaped being assassinated. Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, was forced by aging problems to withdraw from the race. Vice President Kamala Harris grabbed the Democratic Party torch from Biden…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy “I wasn’t supposed to be here,” said 2024 Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump. But the pumped-up crowd in Milwaukee at the 2024 Republican National Convention agreed with Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders that “God spared Donald Trump from an assassin because He wasn’t finished with him yet.” (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Colorado has the seventh-most Democratic state legislature of the 50 states in the United States. In ranking seventh-most Democratic, Colorado finds itself in the company of states on the east and west coasts. The top eight most-Democratic state legislatures are: (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); Hawaii — 90.1% Democratic. Rhode Island — 87.2% Dem.…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Colorado has eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. Colorado Springs and its suburbs have been in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District ever since it was created by the state legislature in the early 1970s. The 5th Congressional District used to include about 10 counties, stretching out…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Tomorrow, June 10, 2024, is the 60th anniversary of the successful cloture vote in the U.S. Senate that enabled final enactment, on July 2, 1964, of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the law that made illegal all forms of racial segregation in public businesses throughout the…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy There is no one great American political film. Yet there are dozens of provocative films and documentaries that help us understand the American experiment. They tell of our successes and our failings and how long it has taken us to live up to our lofty aspirations of liberty and opportunity…