America has barely put a toe into the swirling waters of the 2024 campaign for President of the United States, but already the red flashing lights are signaling trouble ahead for voters seeking facts about the race for November.

Exhibit A: Donald J. Trump wins the multi-candidate Iowa caucuses with 51% of the vote, as Ron DeSantis placed 2nd with 21% and Nikki Haley trailed in 3rd place with just 19%. Mainstream media spin? Trump’s historic margin was a yawn…Haley was “surging.” Reminds one of the 1972 “surge” of South Dakota Senator George McGovern, who won only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia in Richard Nixon’s landslide victory.

Exhibit B: Trump wins New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary with 54% of the Granite State’s vote to Haley’s 43%. (This despite Haley being strongly endorsed by N.H. Governor Chris Sununu, as hype that former Chris Christie supporters would swing her way, along with the many Democrats—er, I mean, “undeclared” voters—allowed to vote in the Republican primary. Oh, and don’t forget Haley’s big money supporters like Americans for Prosperity outspending Trump 2-to-1 in TV and radio ads.) Mainstream media spin? Haley “almost” got 50% of the vote (fuzzy........

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