After losing the Democratic nomination in 2016, Bernie Sanders started Our Revolution, an organization devoted to grassroots organizing and raising the profiles of progressive candidates. However, today's POLITICO article by Edward-Isaac Dovere paints a bleak picture of an ...read more
What happens when you enable a misogynistic bigot with the competence of a drunk Orangutan to become president? The answer, it seems, is fairly straightforward: electoral disaster at every level of government. The New York Times reported today that since Donald Trump was ...read more
Tuesday night, Republican Ron Estes won a stunning victory in Kansas over Democratic challenger James Thompson. What made it so stunning is that Estes only won by a whole whopping 6.8%. In Kansas, a state Trump took by almost 30 points and is so blood red that Republicans have ...read more
If you're a pretty steady reader here maybe you've noticed that I don't really write about politics in a direct way anymore. I generally don't talk about what's going on in Congress or the White House, or get into the details of who's making what claim against whom, or take ...read more
The problem with the Republican's strategy to turn the country in their favor is that, well, it couldn't in any real sense of the word be defined as a 'strategy'. The Oxford dictionary defines the word as "a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim". Viewed ...read more
"We have some real opportunities in 2014. This is a great year in an off-presidential election. Seemingly no Democrat on the top of the ticket against (Gov. Brian) Sandoval. No Harry Reid. Probably where we had a million voters turn out in 2012, we'll have like 700,000. A lot ...read more
