Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton's plan to oust assumed incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has always resembled what Bob Cesca calls the "Underpants Gnomes Model." This phrase, which comes from a South Park episode where the boys meet the legendary underpants gnomes, ...read more
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
Last night's primaries in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia garnered more attention for who lost rather than who won. In Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, the former Congressman and perennial Presidential candidate lost the nomination for governor this fall. Although his old ...read more
Nina Turner, the former Ohio State Senator and head of the SuperPAC Our Revolution, has managed to offend almost every reasonable center-left Democrat in the last two years. One of the only prominent African-American women to endorse Bernie Sanders in the primary, she refused to ...read more
On Friday, Trump personally intervened to oust Matt Borges, the head of the Ohio state Republican Party. This should be raising a red flag for Republicans because Borges was actually quite good at his job. Ohio has been almost totally controlled by Republicans for years. So why ...read more
The Republican Party is well-known for introducing bills that chip away at the constitutional rights of women. In recent years, the Texas GOP passed a law (that was later overturned) forcing many of the state's abortion clinics to close. In Florida and quite a few other states, ...read more
A few weeks ago, Detroit resident and openly black motorist John Felton was pulled over by a Dayton, Ohio police officer after Fenton allegedly committed the suspicious act of making "direct eye contact" with the officer. Fenton posted the video on Facebook on August 15, where ...read more
Poor Cleveland. The city's trying to get LeBron back, but so far all they've got is the Republican National Convention. That's right. On Tuesday, Cleveland was announced as the lucky winner of 2016's RNC location search, beating out Dallas in the final round of selections. ...read more
There's something seriously wrong with a party that wants to make it more difficult to vote, but easier to buy a semi-automatic assault rifle. That's today's Republican Party. Cloaked in tri-corner hats and patriotic bumper stickers, the GOP has been endeavoring to restrict the ...read more
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare turns three today. Many of the provisions will go into effect in January 2014 and you may be unsure about how this may impact your coverage. Some states have seen insurance companies increase their premiums and you ...read more
Obama is holding on to his commanding lead in Ohio – he’s up by 4 points. Richard Adams at the Guardian points out, for Romney to win, he has to take Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa and Colorado. Romney's increasingly narrow path to the Presidency To get the ...read more
Asked after voting for himself, Romney declared he felt very positive about his chances in Ohio. From Buzzfeed: Asked by a reporter as he left the room who he voted for, Romney said, "I think you know." He also said that he felt "very, very good" about his prospects...... The ...read more
Bit of insidery information for our readers - I spoke to a friend late last night who is working closely with Obama's campaign, and I was informed that internally, the Democrats are very confident of an Obama victory tonight, particularly in Ohio. Their own numbers (that always ...read more
By Bob Cesca: Earlier this month, I wrote about the Cuban Missile Crisis as a critical leadership test for our presidential candidates. How would each candidate, Mitt Romney and President Obama, have reacted in the event of a confrontation in which the slightest error or ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Huff Post: Mitt Romney's round of highly dubious television and radio ads suggesting that Chrysler and GM are shipping American jobs to China has managed to offend both car companies. A spokesperson for General Motors told the Detroit Free ...read more
While President Obama has stopped campaigning for President in order to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Mitt Romney has decided to pretend to stop campaigning while actually continuing to campaign and do lots of photo ops of him pretending to help the disaster ...read more
Although the popular vote looks increasingly close, Obama is retaining the edge when it comes to electoral votes - and that is down to his performance in swing states. From the Huffington Post: Ohio remains one of the most critical states in the election. Along with Wisconsin, ...read more
In one of the most advanced democracy on the planet, voter fraud and election rigging should be very low on the list of things to be concerned about. When you think of election corruption, you think Egypt or Uzbekistan, not the United States of America. But with the ...read more
It still makes me uncomfortable to write about politics in terms of ethnic, socio economic and gender based terms, but I guess that's the reality of how campaigns are planned and executed. Having said that, maybe Obama's recent bump in the polls from a demographic he has had ...read more
By Ben Cohen: I met Vanity Fair's contributing editor Craig Unger over a year ago in his apartment New York City while he was researching his recently published book Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power. Unger outlined the premise of the book to me and ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via The Hill): Mitt Romney used a tough new campaign speech to personally blast the Obama campaign on Tuesday, saying comments earlier in the day from Vice President Biden are "what an angry and desperate Presidency looks like." "Mr. President, ...read more
As you've probably observed already, Mitt Romney is a lie machine. Steve Benen at Maddow Blog has been tracking Romney's mendacity and the tally is usually 20-30 items per week. That's a lot, and Benen probably doesn't hear about all of them. Any normal human being has to work ...read more
You have to give credit where credit is due, and at a town hall meeting in Ohio on Tuesday, Romney was asked a question by a woman who called Obama “a monster.” Amazingly (for Romney at least) he didn't wait for any polls to come out before he responded. “That’s not the term I ...read more
Mitt Romney just cannot close the deal on the Republican Presidential nomination. Despite having outspent his closest rival Rick Santorum by an amazing ratio of 4:1 in Super Tuesday States, Romney barely won the most important delegate rich Ohio (by a margin of 1%), and did not ...read more
Here's a quick guide to what's at stake next Tuesday in the GOP primary: • Alaska—26 delegates, caucus • Georgia—76 delegates, primary • Idaho—32 delegates, caucus • Massachusetts—41 delegates, primary • North Dakota—28 delegates, caucus • Ohio—66 delegates, primary • ...read more
And remember, this is the conservative Roberts court. The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations. The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections ...read more
