In 2015 I told you that Bernie couldn’t win. He had no chance. This year I am also telling you that Bernie can’t win. He has no chance. This is not about how I feel. This is about math. But how I feel is that I cannot stand Bernie. Why? Because he is either…
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Once an organizational army, Team Sanders now skeleton crew
••• While the campaign had exhibited coherence through the first few states, flawed decisions and deep frustrations have marked the second half of the calendar. The most public sign of discontent and disagreement in the campaign came April 26. It was a key turning point. Sanders had just lost four of the five states that…
Democratic Primary Update – Thursday April 28
Tuesday April 26th were the Democratic primary elections in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Another great night for Hillary Clinton that read as much as a hammer blow to the Sanders campaign as it did an electoral victory. Clinton took 4 of the 5 states, winning by 52 pledged delegates and almost half a…
Democratic Primary Update – Wednesday April 20
Tuesday, April 19th was the Democratic primary in New York. The state is not yet fully reported, but we do have a good picture of what happened. Hillary Clinton walked away with a convincing win, taking 139 pledged delegates at the current count. Not only did Clinton win almost 58% of the popular vote,…
Democratic Primary Update – Wednesday April 6th
Yesterday was the election in Wisconsin where Bernie took the win with 57% of the vote, gaining the majority of 86 pledged delegates. With 3 pledged delegates yet to be assigned, Bernie cuts into Clinton’s pledged delegate lead by 11 after last night’s win. Clinton remains far ahead in pledged and unpledged delegates, and…
The State of The Democratic Primary 3/16/2016
Hillary Clinton had a great night on Tuesday, winning all the biggest states, and splitting Missouri, winning the popular vote and losing by one delegate. The results add up to a statistically insurmountable lead that should carry her all the way to the nomination. I have been saying since Bernie got in that he would…
Clinton Wins Iowa! What’s Next?
I’m calling Iowa for Clinton today. Now that the first primary is in the bag, what is next for the Dem primary, Clinton, and her supporters?
Berned Out (Liberal Wingnut Mythology)
The more I have to look at the Sanders campaign, the more I just see the lies, the arrogance, the sexism, and the racism. The White guy is absolutely perfect and has the most integrity and the most vision, and we need to elect him because the Black man wasn’t good enough, and the woman…
Ben Carson Lied. Meh.
So apparently Ben Carson lied. Really, I don’t care much for this kind of story whether it is about a Republican or Hillary Clinton. If you can’t tell that this person should never get anywhere NEAR the White House by listening to him for five minutes – ANY five minutes – then the lies will…
New Poll: Clinton Takes Lead in N.H., Won Debate
After a commanding performance in this week’s Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton reclaimed some of the ground she’d lost to Senator Bernie Sanders over the summer, leaving the two candidates in a statistical dead heat in New Hampshire, a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll found. The survey, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, showed Clinton pulling ahead of…
TRP News – Progressive News & Information – September 14, 2015
TRP News with James Andre. This week – Kim Davis is back to work, Congress is back to work, and both are refusing to do their jobs. Dem primary features more of the same, migrant news, and an update on the situation in Gaza. 0:30 Kim Davis 6:14 Dem Primary 22:55 Congress 35:20 Migrants 46:39…
TRP News – Progressive News & Information – August 31, 2015 – The Rational Progressive
TRP News with James Andre. This week – The Democratic primary, The DNC summer meeting and that DNC Iran resolution, Planned Parenthood and another government shutdown, The killing of Deputy Goforth and the racist response, an update on ISIL, and migrant news 0:27 Dem Primary 7:50 DNC Iran resolution 14:03 Government Shutdown 17:08 Deputy Goforth…
TRP News – Progressive News & Information – August 24, 2015 – The Rational Progressive
TRP News with James Andre. This week – can Sanders win the Democratic primary? Do Clinton’s emails really matter? What do you know about the Senate elections? Two states fail to draw legal voting district maps, migrants storm the Macedonian border, and the Koreas exchange artillery fire in the middle of a joint U.S. –…
Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie – Barney Frank
I know that there is a counter-argument made by some on the Democratic left that a closely contested nomination process will help our ultimate nominee — that Clinton will somehow benefit from having to spend most of her time and campaign funds between now and next summer proving her ideological purity in an intraparty fight,…
Perrys standing diminished in Texas
Rick Perry had fallen so far by the end of his Presidential campaign that its not even clear he could have defeated Barack Obama in Texas. Our poll of the state last weekend found Perry leading Obama just 48-47, including a 51-44 deficit with independents. Perry had led Obama by 7 points on a September…
Mitt Romney’s Big Obama Jobs Lie
At the Fox News/Wall Street Journal debate Monday night in South Carolina, GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney made a breathtakingly bogus claim about President Obama’s jobs record. “We have a president in office three years,” Romney claimed, “and he does not have a jobs plan yet.” Romney is either suffering from selective amnesia or is trying…
Romney’s Father Was Illegal Mexican Immigrant
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may be in the lead in the Palmetto state, but that doesn’t mean South Carolinians necessarily like him. During a Fox News debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Monday, the Republican audience booed loudly after being told that Romney’s father was born in Mexico. In a report last…
GOP Candidates Double Down on Race Card
Speaking to a crowd at New Hampshire on Thursday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that African Americans would rather collect food stamps than find employment. “I will go to the NAACP convention, and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps,” he said, according to Slate journalist Dave Weigel….
GOP Contenders Hold ‘Raucous’ Debate In Vegas
The reviews are in about last night’s CNN Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas and the consensus seems to be that it was a slugfest in Sin City: — “The near-weekly ritual of Republican presidential debates took a raucous turn Tuesday night as the unsettled field of candidates ganged up on one another…
GOP Voters In Arizona Grade The Candidates’ Debate : NPR
Eight Republican voters — six of them undecided — gathered at NPR’s request to watch the televised GOP presidential debate Tuesday night. NPR’s Ted Robbins watched with them in Saddlebrooke, Ariz., a retirement community northwest of Tucson, and asked them to share their thoughts. I thought I might be imposing on Dick and Peg Alford…