Notes From All Over, Part 1 -- January 5, 2020

First things first: I completely missed it. The Vikings game. Did they win!? I was traveling. It looks like they won but I was moving through this stuff pretty quickly. Did Drew Brees play?

Memories: we were in San Antonio over the weekend. We lived their for about ten years, probably the place we lived the longest in our entire lives. Lots of memories. Stateside, one of my favorite cities. Maybe more later, but for now, simply a lot of bittersweet memories. Fond memories.

Apathy: tell me again why we should care about the Mideast now that we are energy independent? If the western world thinks the Mideast is important, let others foot the bill -- blood and money. If Iraq wants to go the way of Iran that should be their call.

Futures: looks like Monday could be a great buying opportunity.

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Apathy: tell me again why what goes in the Mideast should affect publicly traded companies in America.

The cartoon page. My favorite cartoon of the week may have been the first one:

Mideast War MMXX. December 31, 2019 --

Super Bowl LIV: February 2, 2020.

Geo-politics: The Dallas Morning News Headline -- Leaders, others see US attack on Iranian general as violation of sovereignty. I don't recall that same sentiment after "9-11." Just saying.

Funerals: I see that the Iranians don't plan to have an open-casket viewing of the general. I'm surprised they needed a coffin that big.

Polls: see this post over at The Hill. There's something "fishy" about that article. 

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg saw a 6-point bump in the latest Hill-HarrisX survey of the Democratic presidential primary.

The nationwide poll, which was released Friday, shows Bloomberg up from 5 percent to 11 percent support for the nomination nationally.

The former New York City mayor is now in a dead heat for third place with top-tier candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who also received 11 percent support.

Biden, meanwhile, continues to lead the Democratic field with 28 percent followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders at 16 percent.

Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg saw another slight dip, after slipping 4 percentage points in mid-December. In the latest survey, he now has 6 percent support, down from 5 percent from the Dec. 13-14 poll (sic). [Must be millennial math.]

Bloomberg’s rise in the latest Hill-HarrisX survey comes in spite of his late entry into the 2020 race and the fact that he hasn’t appeared in any of the Democratic primary debates. 

[There's something fishy about this article, and it's not the 'millennial math.' See below.]

Polls: see this link to realclearpolitics. 

The Hill references its own poll that was taken 12/27 - 12/28. After that two more polls were released, The Economist, 12/28- 12/31; and, the Harris poll, 12/27 - 12/29. Of the three polls, The Hill is the outlier with regard to Bloomberg. All polls show Bloomberg at 7% or below; only The Hill shows Bloomberg hitting double digits, at 11%. In fact, the two polls that were released later show Bloomberg back to single-digits: 3 - 7%.