Midweek Post Without Title

A fare Northern New Jersey morning to Stroock's Books reader(s) except the Canadians. The Blue Jays suck and so does Mark Carney. 

What's in the offing today?

The New Jersey Globe reports that two weeks from election day, a new Rutgers-Eagleton poll has Mikie Sherrill leading Jack Ciattarelli 50-45. This is the third such poll showing Mikie with a five-point lead. But the race remains close, and the Dems are acting like it. The Party is sending Hillary and Barry Soetoro to campaign for Mikie. Pro-tip, neither candidate has political coattails. The Dems are running ads about Abortion now and calling Jack '100% MAGA'. These latest moves are designed to gin up the base. It should work, right? Right?* Hmmm, but Eric Daugherty notes this pollster overestimated Phil Murphy by 5 points in 2021.

Across the dread Hudson river, the anti-Mamdani faction is pressuring GOP Curtis Sliwa to drop out of the mayoral race. Should he? Yes. But also no. It's not Sliwa's job to help Andrew Cuomo and the Democrats. Perhaps the anti-Mamdani faction should pressure Killer Andy C. to drop out of the race. Honestly, this blog doesn't know if either man dropping out would stop Mamdani. 

Killer Andy C. could probably run New York City. But this blog remains indifferent to his candidacy. Under no circumstances would we vote for the man. It's not that we're bitter. After Killer Andy C's Covid thugery and his anti-Jewish crackdown we hate his guts. 

This is the Mamdani moment. Soon a worm will slink its way into the Big Apple. NYC deserves this. 

What Will's Watching: Dark Winds. This is a Navajo reservation police drama set in the 1970s. We are intrigued by the Native American cast and interested to see Navajo customs and religious practice. Interesting question....Native American actors should play Native American characters, certainly (for them most part). Should non-Navajo actors portray Navajo characters? Two episodes in, 4/4.

Sales note...these last few months, sales of the Great Nuclear War series are outpacing sales of the World War 1990: Series. 

As always, research indicates (a friend and colleague did a big magazine spread and got nuthin') that advertising no longer works. We remain baffled. The only way we know to goose sales is to publish. 

World War 1990: Norway hit Amazon in June of 2024. Which probably explains why sales of the World War 1990 series have fallen behind sales of the Great Nuclear War series. 

DOGE Report. World War 1990: The Managua Campaign is coming along just fine. We did some great editing yesterday. This is a tight, pithy book. 

We remain frustrated with World War 1990: Thatcher's War. The scene is set for the Irish Army's climactic counterattack around Ardee. We just don't know how we want to do it. This is a loose, un-pithy book. 

*Almost certainly.