
Tag: 2016 elections

[Thanks so much to Erik for his kind intro and the rest of you for your welcome messages. For the record: anti-ketchup, all the way. Don’t get me started on mayonnaise.] This we know: 2016 was a
Despite the attempts by many people to say that economics and economic messaging had nothing to do with Trump’s victory on November 8, as I have stated repeatedly, Trump’s victory had to d

Above: Deb Fischer (R-NE) I have never seen such principled politicians as the Republicans standing up to Donald Trump. Three days after calling on Donald Trump to quit the presidential race, Sen. Deb
Watching a few minutes of Bernie Sanders’s speech to his supporters made me very worried about this convention. Not because of Sanders. But because many of his die-hard supporters who are at the
I can see why some people are flouncing away from the Democratic Party again because both parties are the same amiright and so only real revolution will come from voting for Jill Stein, or even better
Personally, I thought the Politico story dishing on the Sanders campaign was pretty gross, partly for the reasons Scott delineated here. But I also thought Brian Beutler was pretty right on in his sho
A message that will need repeating over and over in the next 5 months. This is for anybody wasting time online blathering about how Hillary and Trump are the same; how if Hillary gets the nomination,
OMG, how did we miss this? I don’t see how Trump loses now! Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Thursday endorsed Donald Trump and left the door open to becoming the Republican vice presidential
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