Joe Biden supporters welcome all the Bernie supporters and realize we may not live to see another election with what we have in the present administration. The reality is, there is no pathway for Senator Sanders. The virus took the normal campaigning away. VP Biden has the delegate lead and has won state after state…
Category: Primaries
Iowa … that's where the tall caucus grows
Some final polls and trends before the caucuses. x FWIW, we're going to remove YouGov's poll today from our averages. What they published is really a MRP model, not a poll, and not comparable to previous YouGov polls of IA. Revised figures for top 5 are as follows:Sanders 22.2Biden 21.4Buttigieg 15.5Warren 14.5Klobuchar 10.0 https://t.co/R8ROqfalXL —…
Republicans and the new defense: “We were just giving orders.”
Following the fall of the Nazi regime, and at the Nuremberg trials, certain German defendants — including concentration camp guards and bureaucrats — raised a famous defense: “I was just following orders.” I noticed recently that Trump and Republican have invented a new variant of the defense: “I was just giving orders.” This is most obvious in…
Some Perspective From An Older Progressive Voter on Democratic Presidential Primaries.
OK. Some folks on Daily Kos are getting bent out of shape about their candidate for president catching flack. And I’m reading and hearing how divisive this all is for Democrats. Some talking heads are bringing up that Democrats always beat up on their front runners or simply “shoot their wounded.” I’ve been a political…
I Ask For a Ceasefire.
Could we all just take a few moments, access our current political mess, and maybe have a ceasefire among those who resist Trump and his policies? As to my meager qualifications for calling for a ceasefire, I offer the following about my past stances and transgressions: I’m a partisan Democrat who once listened to the local…
