The End of Reagan's "Big Tent" Republican Party
Alex Henderson has a great story on Alternet, ”Here Are 5 Reagan-Era Republicans Who Would Not Be Welcome in Trump’s GOP Party of 2018.” Remembering Reagan’s rule that someone who agrees with him 80%...
View ArticleIf Kavanaugh is Confirmed . . .
There has been much discussion (including on DKos, appropriately) of the threat to civil rights and much else if Kavanaugh is confirmed. There have been discussions of what Democrats should try in...
View ArticleMcConnell Has a Problem: Dr. Ford is VERY Believable
Like most of the United States, I watched the (still ongoing) testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Granted that I was already pre-disposed to believe her...
View ArticleI Weep for My Country
In reflecting on slavery (and his own inability—external or internal—to free his slaves),Thomas Jefferson said, “I weep for my country when I reflect that God is just.” Leaving aside the question of...
View ArticleThe Kavanaugh Hearing Rallied Women and Progressives: Did It Also Rally the...
I think it’s clear that the Kavanaugh hearing with its disrespect to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, to sexual assault survivors, and to women in general with further galvanize women and progressives for...
View ArticleWith Senate on the Line, Is Heitkamp (D-ND) in Trouble?
Tiny edit: Because of the unknown nature of the pollster and ND’s reputation as notoriously difficult to poll, I have modified the title to make this story more of a question than a declaration of...
View ArticleBooks for a Progressive Political Philosophy
You know how right wingers (e. g. Paul Ryan, Rand Paul) are always citing the works of the over-rated political philosopher and bad novelist, Ayn Rand, as their inspiration? They especially love to...
View ArticleI'm Starting to Get Nervous About the Mid-Terms
Checking out FiveThirtyEight.com, my favorite number-crunchers, I found 3 items that started to give me a “2016” case of the nerves. Beginning in October of 2016, I started to get worried that Trump...
View Article2018 Nobel Peace Prize Won by Two Who Work to End Sexual Violence as Weapon...
Denis Mukwege, a Doctor from the Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi activist and former captive of Islamic State, have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the use of rape and other...
View ArticleMitch McConnell: Killing Our Democracy
Yesterday, Kossack Undiscokidd wrote an important diary, Mitch McConnell Acts as a Killer of the U.S. Senate. Read it, I urge you. Reporter John Heilemann commented last night on MSNBC’s The Last Word...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Lisa Murkowski
Dear Sen. Murkowski: You listened to Native Alaskans. You listened to all your constituents fearful for the possible overturn of Roe v. Wade. You listened to your constituents who were survivors of...
View Article538.com: State of the Race
This is only a snapshot, no need for panic, but it is time to GOTV. The Good News: FiveThirtyEight.com puts the odds that Dems take over the House now at 77.5% or 7 out of 9 chances. The avge. number...
View ArticleTake Courage and Hope: The Struggle is For the Long Haul
Tonight, unable to watch the news, I re-watched the PBS’ 3-Part series (as part of The American Experience), The Abolitionists. The struggle to abolish slavery in this country was one of nearly four...
View ArticleBallot Initiatives Are Driving Voters to the Polls: But Dems Still Lost Key...
Ballot initiatives usually drive up voter turnout and progressive ballot initiatives turnout democratic voters. They get good things enacted that would be stymied in state legislatures and they help...
View ArticleDear Front Pagers: Please Restore the Election Graph Header
The Civiqs polling graph was never helpful. I loved it last night when it was replaced with a graph showing the House, Senate, and Governor counts. Please put that back up. We are getting new...
View ArticleRepublican Author of ND Voter ID Law Targeting Native Americans Loses His...
Alternet has the story. Would we rather have kept Sen. Heitkamp’s seat? Absolutely. But it looks like the GOP will pay a high price for their blatant voter suppression of Native Americans. Native...
View ArticleLikely Democratic Candidates for POTUS in 2020 [Updated to Reply to Comments]
I was one of many on this site who kept swatting down attempts to talk about candidates for 2020 until after the Mid-terms. It would’ve been a distraction. We needed to keep laser-focused on retaking...
View ArticleSen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) Holds Up Judicial Nominees Until McConnell Protects...
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) seems to have been liberated by retirement. He’s at long last actually standing for something. He’s putting all judicial nominees on hold until McConnell puts the bi-partisan...
View ArticleTaylor Sappington: Anatomy of Why Democrats' Lost in OH and Other Red States
I found this story on Talking Points Memo, though it originated at Pro Publica. It’s the story of Taylor Sappington, a native of Nelsonville, OH who would seem to be the perfect Democratic candidate...
View ArticleGreenberg: Trump is Beginning to Lose His Grip
Writing in the New York Times, Stanley Greenberg says that Trump is beginning to lose his grip on power. Greenberg is a pollster, and he says that it was not just white suburban women who switched to...
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