Today is the 266th day of 2020 and the first day of autumn.
We often question how polls come up with results that seem so out of kilter with the way we see things in western Oklahoma. Flaws in polling data hit a peak four years ago when Donald Trump, who according to the polls didn’t have any chance of beating Hillary Clinton, was elected president.
I used to be one of those people who argued with the talking heads on television. I was a political junkie from my earliest days, so there I would be on a Saturday morning, thanking Bill Buckley on the other side of the screen for correcting his "Firing Line" guest's wayward thinking or telling Eleanor Clift on "The McLaughlin Group" that there is another way to think about things (as if she didn't know that on her own, or, well, could hear me).
Today is the 256th day of 2020 and the 85th day of summer.
We have always admired towns that were once nothing more than wide spots in the road that became tourist hot spots.