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I know I’ve written about it a lot but it’s still my top issue and while tonight’s debate was horribly moderated, but Pod Save America said it best about tonight’s debate: x Warren is right on the filibuster. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/scUy3EwdIc— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) February 26, 2020 I’m very happy...

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  • February 26, 2020

Charles P. Pierce from Esquire made it clear today who he was voting for: In 2016, I decided to make it a custom here at the shebeen to reveal the candidate for whom I voted in the Democratic primary election because a) I think it’s right to be transparent about...

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  • February 25, 2020

Mark your calendars: Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren is making another stop in Aiken this week. Senator Warren will make the stop on Friday when she is scheduled to host a GOTV launch. She's also bringing superstar John Legend to Orangeburg on Wednesday as part of a Get Out The...

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  • February 25, 2020

Love this: x YouTube Video Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday attacked fellow Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg in a new ad, slamming the billionaire over his previous Republican ties. Warren took aim at Bloomberg's large number of television ads and targeted his record of endorsing and financing Republican candidates, including...

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  • February 25, 2020

Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in support of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D. MA) presidential campaign: x YouTube Video I messed up. I voted early in Nevada for Pete Buttigieg. Then I saw Elizabeth Warren in this week's debate and at a local rally —...

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  • February 22, 2020

Love this: x The day after the debate, Elizabeth Warren bought a full page ad in Sheldon Adelson’s newspaper saying Sheldon Adelson will pay $2.3 billion the first year of her wealth tax. I think that’s called chutzpah. pic.twitter.com/dV7O3G8MJu— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) February 20, 2020 The morning after Sen. Elizabeth Warren savaged...

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  • February 20, 2020

Laura Clawson is doing an excellent job of covering how bad the ABC moderators of this latest Demcoratic “debate” are performing.  And you don’t have to be a progressive to see how awful the “There Will Be Blood!” inducing questions that sellouts like George Stephanopolous ask.  He’s a shining example...

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  • February 8, 2020

It’s hard for me not to picture him shuffling around the White House at night with Kleenex boxes on his feet, shouting guacamole recipes at Nixon’s ghost. Especially when he says stuff like this: x You would think there is NO WAY that any of the Democrat Candidates that we...

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  • October 16, 2019

ABC News on Wednesday unveiled the four moderators who will host the third Democratic presidential primary debate next month in Houston. The debate will be moderated by ABC chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir, ABC News correspondent Linsey Davis and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, the network announced. The...

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  • August 22, 2019

I watched most of the debate last night. Then I realized if I wanted to watch three nondescript middle-aged white guys mansplain the “real world” to a woman far more intelligent and qualified than they are, I could move back to Northeast Wisconsin and stand literally anywhere. I mean, not to disparage...

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  • July 31, 2019

Well, here we are again. Sorry for the time delay, but I was tied up yesterday on personal business. But nothing in the intervening 24 hours has done anything to change my initial perceptions of what we saw Thursday night, especially where the peripheral characters are concerned. Thursday night fulfilled...

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  • June 29, 2019
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