Setting the Stage for 2020
It's 2020 – another election year! Looming large is the U.S. Presidential Election. BC voters are likely to go the polls this year too. This is the third day of my retirement from the practice of law after nearly 54 years. While I'm building a new routine, there is one habit that will not change: obsessing over the polls. During the holiday season, I noticed that liberal and progressive Americans (and their Canadian friends) are genuinely pessimistic about their ability to defeat Trump. They're convinced that Trump will triumph in November. He will, once again, bamboozle a sufficient number of voters to steal another win. They believe none of the Democratic candidates will be able to head him off. They can't imagine that Democrats will nominate the candidate least likely to defeat him. At the start of this year, we have to reassure them that all manner of things can happen between now and November 3: removal from office by the Senate (highly unlikely), new and