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Author: Scott Lemieux

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Caucuses are terrible

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On January 27, 2020
Precinct Chairwoman Judy Wittkop explains the rules during a 2008 Democratic caucus in Le Mars, Iowa. This process is just not remotely defensible: Talk to Iowans with disabilities and you will hear the same story over and over: a nightmarish experience in 2016, and repeated...
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Great Moments in Subtweeting

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On January 26, 2020
I like the shade the Des Moines Register editorial board throws on the Times here: Each of the remaining candidates campaigning across Iowa ahead of the caucuses could make a fine president. Each would be more inclusive and thoughtful than the current occupant of the...
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Great Moments in bad faith

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On January 25, 2020
"I used to think it would be bad if a mountain of evidence that the president had illegally witheld funds to extort a foreign government to ratfuck a presidential election, but when the impeachment manager cited a news report suggesting that we would be Donald...
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Nobody Knows Anything

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On January 23, 2020
After discussing the oppo that might be dumped should Bernie be the nominee, Paul Waldman concludes: There’s no doubt that Republicans would try to make that case, that Sanders is a crazy radical who would turn America into a communist hellscape where we will all...
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