Mamdani. Platner. El–Sayed.

In the Democratic Party, three men have been greeted with opposition.

From Democrats.

But also from the supposed mainstream.

One of these men, beginning this past January 2026, is in office.

I think, without being overconfident, the other two men will arrive next year, in January 2027.

Here is a summary of the three gentlemen, seen above from left to right, for the 2025 and 2026 election cycles.

🔵 Zohran Mamdani. Born October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda, Mamdani defeated for nomination numerous opponents which included former New York governor Andrèw Cuomo. In the general election of November 4, 2025, Mamdani defeated then-Independent Cuomo by +9.46 percentage points, carrying both male and female voters, and is now the 112th mayor of New York, New York.

🔵 Graham Platner. Born September 1, 1984, in Blue Hill, Maine, on June 9, 2026, Platner defeated Maine governor Janet Mills for the 2026 Democratic nomination for United States Senate from Maine. Platner will face, in the general election, five-term Republican incumbent Susan Collins. She was first elected in 1996. But, after winning a fourth-term re-election in 2014 by a stunning +36.96 percentage points, she won her fifth term in 2020 by +8.59. What happened was Maine’s 1st Congressional District (home of Cumberland County which is location for Portland)—which nowadays delivers margins, for U.S. President, like California—became a Democratic pickup for losing nominee Sara Gideon. As a state, Maine realigned Democratic for U.S. President, with Bill Clinton, in 1992. With exceptions in 1912 and 1968. Maine has voted the same as Vermont—which ranked as the Democrats’s No. 1 best state for U.S. President in 2020 and 2024 (while California was their No. 5)—since the year 1856. This state has Angus King, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, in one seat. Like West Virginia—which realigned in 2000 to the Republicans, for U.S. President (nowadays their No. 2 best state), and both its U.S. Senate seats are now with the GOP—the time has come for the Democrats to have both U.S. Senate seats from Maine.

🔵 Abdul El–Sayed. Born October 31, 1984, in Detroit, Michigan, and with current base in Ann Arbor, the state holds its primaries on August 4, 2026. His competition for the 2026 Democratic nomination for United States Senate from Michigan are U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D–Michigan #11) and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D–Michigan #08). El–Sayed is leading polls, for the most part, but the establishment—including a most recent endorsement by the Democrats’s No. 1 U.S. Senate leader Chuck Schumer—prefer Stevens. (We are now being inundated with Stevens-helped-Obama-save-the-Auto-Industry ads which are likely an extension from the Israel Lobby.) No matter…leading bellwether Michigan—which, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (neither has a 2026 U.S. Senate race), now holds the longest active streak carrying for U.S. presidential election winners (five consecutive cycles since and including 2008)—voters have not elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate since 1994. That was the Republican midterm election wave, on the watch of then-Democratic incumbent U.S. president Clinton, in which both houses of Congress flipped Republican. Last year a Republican won a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, timed with a presidential election, dates back to 1972. That was re-election, to the tune of 49 states, for then-incumbent Richard Nixon. I consider this state’s 2026 U.S. Senate election a Likely Democratic Hold.

I will be keeping track of the Michigan race over the next seven weeks through Primary Day.

Flashback 1976: Martha Mitchell Dies

Martha Mitchell died at age 57 on [Monday,] May 31, 1976.

The 50th anniversary of her death has just passed.

Martha was a socialite who was also, when she died, the wife of John Mitchell.

John was United States attorney general in the administration of 37th U.S. president Richard Nixon.

Martha Mitchell, born September 2, 1918 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was an outspoken and controversial figure who was a big pain to Nixon. Martha became especially a problem for Nixon during the Watergate scandal—she was kidnapped in that same month as the break-in during June 1972—which eventually brought down Nixon’s presidency with his resignation in 1974.

Massie

The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District.

This area includes eastern parts of Louisville.

I support the re-election bid for Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie.

He has angered Republican incumbent U.S. president Donald Trump.

He has especially angered zionists such as Marian Adelson—who was the key funder for the 2024 campaign for Trump—and other billionaire zionists.

Recruited as a primary challenger to Massie is an ex-Democrat and a Never Trump figure, Ed Gallrein.

Latest polls leave me not choosing to predict the winner for this nomination.

Given the billions being spent on this primary race, by the zionist billionaires, and whatever level of influence by the low-approval puppet in the Oval Office, this is important.

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Six Months Out

Now that May 2026 has arrived, we are six months out from the 2026 United States midterm elections.

Scheduled date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

At this time, I will not make detailed predictions. What I will do is summarize. This is with regard for United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, and United States Governors in Year #06 of the presidency of Republican Donald Trump.

🇺🇸 2026 U.S. HOUSE 🇺🇸 Democratic majority-control pickup

🇺🇸 2026 U.S. SENATE 🇺🇸 Democratic majority-control pickup

🇺🇸 2026 U.S. GOVERNORS 🇺🇸 Democratic pickup for a majority number of the nation’s governorships

Since the 17th Amendment, from the 1910s, there were five U.S. midterm elections in which citizens voted to have both houses of Congress switch to the White House opposition party. They occurred in 1918, 1946, 1954, 1994, and 2006. What also happened was the opposition party won the pickup to establish a majority number for U.S. Governors. 

Given Trump’s disastrous polling numbers—along with outcomes from the 2025 special elections, the 2025 general election, and 2026 special elections—this will not be difficult for Team Blue to achieve.

I will write and explain more when we are three months out from the general election. Look for a follow-up topic scheduled for Saturday, August 1, 2026.

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green

 

Kim Iversen welcomed former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (R–Georgia #14).

This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunday, April 5, 2026.

I like, for example, how Green explains the overwhelming members of Congress.

The timing of this interview is good for my the next blog topic. It will be titled, “Election 2026: Six Months Out.” It was publish Friday, May 1, 2026.

The 2026 MLB Season Begins

The new 2026 Major League Baseball season is now in its first full week.

I was sorry Milwaukee Brewers, which has been in only one World Series, as the American League pennant winners for 1982, did not make it into the 2025 World Series. Since their move to the National League, with expansion in 1998, they have not won any pennants in the NL.

I was bitterly disappointed in the 2025 Detroit Tigers. They won 59 of 93 games (.634) and, after receiving no meaningful July 31, 2025/Trade Deadline Day player upgrades, won 28 of the season’s remaining 69 games (.406) and even blew their AL Central division. They eked out a wild card slot.

I am a lifelong resident of Michigan. I have just one area MLB home team. The American League Detroit Tigers—the World Series-winning team in 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984—are it.

I am not a sports fan, in general, so I have not been following since my childhood. But I would like to see my area National Football League team, Detroit Lions, finally in the Super Bowl. (They are an embarrassment given the franchise was established all the way back in 1930 and is one of just four NFL teams to have never played in one given Super Bowl. The first Super Bowl, won by Green Bay Packers, was in 1967.) I would like the MLB Detroit Tigers to win a fifth World Series while I am still alive. (I turn 55 in August.)

I don’t think my position is unique. The past World Series champs with the longest drought are Cleveland Indians (I hate their changed name Guardians). That was in 1948. Since 1979 there are several teams forty or more years also with a drought: Pittsburgh Pirates (1979), Baltimore Orioles (1983), Detroit Tigers (1984), and New York Mets (1986). I can also extend sympathy to Oakland (currently in Sacramento) Athletics (1989), Cincinnati Reds (1990), and Minnesota Twins (1991). Of all these teams, only Detroit Tigers and New York Mets have played in any Fall Classics since their last World Series championships.

An interesting understanding of the business are with these following videos. In fact: They motivate me to not give too much of my personal time to live-viewing MLB games here in 2026.

The first video is from a radio station in Detroit. Published to YouTube on October 15, 2024, just after that year’s Detroit Tigers were done with their postseason, “The Valenti Show with Rico” co-host Mike Valenti offered up some historic statistics which should not be ignored.

The second video is from More Perfect Union. It was published March 25, 2026. It gives focus to how Major League Baseball became changed with the use of, and reliance on, data. (And there is even more to the business model.) This was a change which catapulted the 2004 Boston Red Sox to their first World Series title since 1918.

I will post these videos below.

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies

Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards.

Ceremony will be on ABC.

In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube.

I was thinking about how these showbiz awards have gone through changes. 

The Oscars were invented in part to appease actors. Serve their egos. When they arrived on television in the 1950s, they were also designed to have viewers tune in—year after year—for a star-studded event which was built up to feel exciting and important.

Other big awards ceremonies followed.

In calendar order:

• Grammy Awards are for music.

• Academy Awards are for movies.

• Tony Awards are for not just theater—that is not specific enough—but for Broadway.

• Primetime and Daytime Emmy Awards are for the television.

Most of this used to be considered prestigious.

Over the last generation or so…U.S. citizens became less engaged.

The Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, and Grammys now remind me of the mall. The indoor mall. These big awards cermonies, for these different mediums, are like the anchor department stores for a huge indoor mall. The other store are less prestigious, some not particularly relevant, but existing for entertainment. Filler.

What is the trend of indoor shopping malls? What is the trend for these showbiz awards ceremonies? Well, just like with indoor malls—and what has become of them—there isn’t an interest, a use, and a need. Not for how people live. There are fewer music stores, movie theaters, and people have their personal setups at home…to accommodate what they do take in. Convenience.

I have given thought about how music, movies, and television is not all that great. But for what people do enjoy…they are glad to have something. There isn’t much—in art—that is memorable and in need for being celebrated.