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James Carville was on MSNBC this Saturday after the Bernie Sanders resounding victory in Nevada talking about a variety of things, all meant to blunt the impact of Bernie’s victory with Nevada voters. Bernie won self-identified Very Liberal Voters,...
by pdxbuckeye
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on Mon Feb 24, 2020 at 09:25 AM PST
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His Ungracious Majesty has decreed that the Wall of Exclusion shall be painted black and completed in time for his electoral defeat in November 2020. This raises a couple of questions: Will Mexico be paying for the paint job? Will there be warnings...
by andys120
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on Thu Aug 29, 2019 at 04:42 AM PDT
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Great Confucian Truths:
1. A several-million-majority of Democrats chose Hillary over Bernie and therefore Bernie, and his policies, did not get voted in, and those policies did not change the laws to effect our lives.
2. Many progressives...
by JohnQ Dem
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on Tue Oct 17, 2017 at 07:50 AM PDT
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So far as I know, not one word yet about how the election was lost because Hillary moved too far to the left. Is this the end of hippie-punching? 9 comments
on Tue Nov 15, 2016 at 03:04 AM PST
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Triangulation and “Third Way” policies are dead in the Democratic party. We now can be certain that the country is exactly as polarized as it has felt for two decades. Corporatist pleas for a “can’t we all just along” approach have fallen on deaf...
by workerhealth
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on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 02:58 PM PST
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Okay, this is going to be an interesting challenge. You want to say triangulation and incrementalism plays better in red states? You think you’ll get a rout that way? Well, here you go. You must keep the above states blue and turn one of the following...
by aliberaldoseofskepticism
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on Sat Jul 23, 2016 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I was a staunch HRC supporter...until now. The beauty of this campaign season for the Democrats thus far has been Bernie pulling Hillary to the left and closer to the base of her own party. For a few, brief, shining moments I thought we finally had in...
by The Angry Democrat
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on Sat Jul 23, 2016 at 12:11 PM PDT
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I am white hot with anger over Hillary’s choice of Tim Kaine. Yeah, yeah, he’s a perfectly acceptable and nice wet dish cloth. Got it. Agreed. Yeah, yeah, the VP choice really doesn’t matter in the scheme of things and really won’t help deliver or lose...
by ThanxAl
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on Sat Jul 23, 2016 at 06:45 AM PDT
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FiveThirtyEight doesn’t give very good odds to the GOP losing the House, as one can expect that down ballot GOP candidates will move away from tRump much as some have decided not to go to the RNC convention even though they probably weren’t Golden...
by annieli
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on Mon Jun 20, 2016 at 09:21 AM PDT
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More surprising is that there is a literature going back to 2010 urging that the Democratic party move past the linear model of political triangulation as a strategic messaging option.
As I noted yesterday in my tag test of how quickly some...
by annieli
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on Thu May 19, 2016 at 12:01 AM PDT
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[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster]
03/21/16 0410.21
PST San Jose, California
Good news from the greatest Republic the world has ever seen has come in steady waves of Pacific rain, the hills waving with hay, mighty federal Shasta already full in
by paradox
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on Mon Mar 21, 2016 at 05:31 AM PDT
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Let me ask the people of Daily Kos something: At what point did the goal of this site transition from more and better Democrats to Democrats at any cost?
Once again, we’re being told to give up, shut the hell up and get back in line and support Clint
by Homer177
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on Wed Mar 16, 2016 at 09:54 AM PDT
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Most mistakenly, many talking heads compare Trump to Sanders, treating both as their parties' extremes, or both as wild-talking crazy men who will say anything. This is unintelligent analysis. For one thing, Trump's winning attribute, to his supporters, h
by tamandua
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on Fri Mar 11, 2016 at 05:12 AM PST
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I‘m not going to be too profound here or load this with a lot of links. The “tl:dr” curse is always waiting. The big revelation coming out of the Race to the White House 2016 is the way the Republican Party is crashing and burning. Donald Trump has
by xaxnar
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on Tue Mar 08, 2016 at 08:21 PM PST
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Can Hillary Clinton Win Over the Left?
It's a question Michelle Goldberg ponders in a long and nuanced article at The Nation .
Hillary is from her formative years a liberal and a progressive, she ...
by Th0rn
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on Thu Aug 27, 2015 at 07:33 PM PDT
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The Huffington Post had a link to a Politico article on red state Democrats having kittens with Bernie Sanders and populism. I will freely admit that I did not read the article because I don't have ...
by Merlin1963
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on Sun Jul 26, 2015 at 03:26 PM PDT
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I plunged in the water on May 22, 2015--not long ago certainly. But I have learned some enormous lessons already.
The first lesson is that there is a tremendous intellectual endowment in this pond,
by Alligator Ed
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on Mon Jun 22, 2015 at 08:05 AM PDT
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As Gaius Publius noted in [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/10/1383864/--Gaius-Publius-Sanders-Raises-3-Million-in-Four-Days-Will-He-Split-the-Party his post here this past Sunday evening]…
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by bobswern
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on Fri May 15, 2015 at 04:04 AM PDT
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about whether or not support for Hillary Clinton represents a call for a return to “normalcy” and, if so, would that be a good thing. Here’s the skinny on ...
by PeterBalesHistoryTales
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on Mon Apr 20, 2015 at 01:53 AM PDT
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It is difficult for me to put into language the anger I feel at Rahm's reelection. For most of my adult life I have striven to remove hate from my life, but "democrats" like Rahm, and Andrew Cuomo, ...
by gnothis
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on Wed Apr 08, 2015 at 04:10 AM PDT
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