After Francesca Hong lost despite a big polling lead, my new @townhallcom VIP column is more on-poinththan ever!
“Here’s why I don’t trust the polls, besides my decades of experience watching politics. It’s because when a weird phone number comes up on my phone, even one that doesn’t say “Spam Risk,” I give it some major side-eye. Now, I usually have to answer unknown numbers without a spam risk alert because I get lots of calls from people not already in my contact list — the booker for Geebo and the Boner’s Morning Zoo on KDUM radio in Bumtouch, Idaho, and that sort of thing. After all, that’s my business. And I always answer with a grunt because I don’t want AI taking my voice and using it to tell Irina that I’m trapped in Nigeria and she has to send $700 to get me freed from captivity. But if there’s a slight pause, or I hear a lot of voices in the background from the boiler room in Bangladesh, I hang up. Yet, occasionally, a normal voice comes on, and if they say, “I’m from Something Something Polling,” I am out of there.
I don’t know about you, but if you’re statistically like every single one of my conservative friends, you never ever ever ever talk to pollsters.”
Ignore the Poll Dancers https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/08/12/ignore-the-poll-dancers-n2681021
My @Townhallcom VIP column has some good advice and it’s all gonna go to waste anyway…
“There’s a lot of conflict between generations now, with the Boomers and Gen X against Gen Z and Gen Whatever the Hell Is Next. Intergenerational conflict is normal, natural, and inevitable — you can find it in the Bible — and both sides have some valid gripes about each other. Most of us VIPs reading this are probably on the older side, and we’ve got lots to say about how the younger generation is weak, whiny, and weird. They have lots to say about how we are spoiled, clueless, and at fault for most of the problems facing mankind in general and them in particular. Again, none of that’s new. The Boomers’ parents thought their kids were entitled jerks, too. And the Boomers thought their parents were repressed automatons grilling in their backyard on yet another Pleasant Valley Sunday.”
Gen Z Won’t Listen, but We’ll Try Anyway ...
Behold, my new @Townhallcom column is up!
“The whole data center imbroglio is one of those weird situations where you have valid arguments on all sides, there’s an obvious solution, and many Republicans aren’t being complete idiots about it. How often does that happen? Not very often. Especially the part about Republicans not being complete idiots.”
Republicans Are Being Shockingly Smart on Data Centers https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/08/31/republicans-are-being-shockingly-smart-on-data-centers-n2682108
