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...but that's not a bad thing; that's a good thing. It may not be obvious (due to all the spin out there) but Barack has actually made real gains through these mega-hyped 'campaign disasters'

Will I vote for Barack Obama in November of next year? Yes, if he is the Democratic nominee and the Republican running against him is as horrible as I expect him/her to be. But am I going to be ...

CNN is reporting that President Obama will be proposing a job creation package that may top $400 billion :

No, it won’t be because they woke up and realized that they suddenly hate Hillary Clinton after having voted for her twice before in previous Senate campaigns.  It will be because they have come to realize in recent days that there is a better way for...

When I heard Bernie Sanders had announced he was running for President a couple of months ago, I was happy to hear the news, but not altogether optimistic about his prospects. Still, I thought, ...

So once again Israel's leaders have decided kill lots of Palestinians in Gaza in order to 'teach them a lesson' for supporting the leadership offered by Hamas. What kind of reasoning lies behind ...

We are all quite aware of what's at stake. And yes, we are familiar with the bleak projections that have been made. I don't know how things are going to ultimately unfold, but I do know that there ...

Hillary says "the tide has turned?" Oh really? As I recall, she was leading Obama by 11+ points in the PA polls 2-3 weeks ago, when she started her relentless effort destroy Barack Obama's ...

There was a diary on the Recommended list yesterday with a title that explicitly claimed Bernie Sanders was not being completely honest about his Single Payer Health Care plan.   I found this cla

I just figured it out last night. Even though he characterized himself and Obama as the candidates of CHANGE---in contrast to Hillary Clinton---I think he eventually discovered that he could not ...

In January 2016, as her poll numbers began to weaken, Hillary Clinton began to criticize Bernie Sanders’ support for a renewal of Glass-Steagall’s limitations on commercial banks, arguing it would not

Have you been somewhat confused as to what Hillary’s feud with Bernie is all about over Health Care?  I thought I might try to clear things up a bit, based in part on what I learned about the economic

In the final weeks of the 2004 campaign, many Democrats complained that the Republicans were using fear tactics to win the election. I thought it was an odd sort of criticism to be voicing, given ...

With the [presumably] delicate psyches of Bernie’s youngest supporters in mind, I thought I’d share my reflections on the significance of yesterday’s primary results. Having been a Bernie Sanders enthusiast since day one, the day he announced his can

Money.   Here’s the thing: if the Sanders Campaign is able to report that it has actually taken in more total financial contributions in the current quarter than the Clinton campaign was able to,

I was a little behind the news cycles yesterday and only this morning had an opportunity to view Barack Obama's absolutlely sensational response to the Clinton/McCain attacks. Last night, after my ...

The single biggest obstacle that Bernie Sanders must overcome in the next few months is the fiction-based rumor of Bernie Sanders that the Clinton campaign has been promoting, one which relies heavily on two basic elements: Misleading insinuation

Of all the key variables at play in the calculus of political campaigning, Time is the one that has always been most crucial to the aspirations of Bernie Sanders and his hopeful supporters. There are other variables, of course.  Without a compelling

The good news about Obama's drop in the polls is that the people who shifted their support to McCain in the past month belong to that special class of the electorate known as The Swing Voters .

Kathy Hochul's big win in NY's 26th Congressional District surprised many. Republicans were surprised that seniors could be scared into ignoring the sugar-coating they put on their mean-spirited ...

Okay class, here is your bonus question...true or false: Even if Congress were to do nothing at all in response to Paulson's/Bernanke's/Bush's request, isn't it true that The ...

As Bernie has pointed out lately, California has 20% of all delegates that are available to candidates and it appears that the West coast is going to be one of the parts of the country where he is goi

No matter what some people may think about the lack of importance of the illegal immigration issue, I can tell you that ...

Cross-posted at Nontrivial Pursuits . ...

One analyst last week estimated that after all is said and done, it could end up costing America taxpayers $1-$2 trillion to prop up Wall St and our failed banking system. Here's a better idea, ...

I’m one of those rare individuals in America who wants more than simply “health care reform”; I want something called SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. That means that I want a health care ...

In the economics classes I’ve taught, I’ve always looked forward to the opportunity to explain one of the most important reasons (there are others) why Market economies have historically ...

Strictly speaking, the Fed's purchase of insurance conglomerate AIG yesterday was not actually a taxpayer bailout. This is because "The Fed" [our Central Bank] is a privately-owned entity [owned by ...

The whole Republican team---from John McCain to Secretary Paulson---is now working together to create a perceived crisis atmosphere in which to persuade Congressional Democrats to approve their ...

The results in Michigan have now given us proof positive that---contrary to all of the spin we heard from Hillary supporters, both in the MSM and here at DK---Secretary Clinton did not win the Sunday debate. If she had won the debate she would not ha

With a ‘BREAKING’ headline announcement, one of Hillary’s Dailykos supporters published a diary earlier that trumpeted news of Bernie Sanders’ failure to present a step-by-step plan of how he’d ‘break up the banks’ when he was asked for one by NYDN...

Because health insurance companies invest millions of $$ in PR campaigns and in their campaign contributions to members of Congress, most people do not realize that there is almost no difference between these ‘business professionals’ and the Mafia when...

It is now very apparent that Karl Rove is alive and well and firmly in command of the Republican Party’s Character Assassination Campaign. Just yesterday, I had written a diary ...

Are we talking about acts of war? Should America launch retaliatory measures? (Head shaking…) Enough of all this hysterical arm-waving, warmongers.  In what may be a completely futile effort (given the current makeup of the Dailykos...

I have looked forward to this election for a couple of years, based on my hopes that John Edwards would be able to pull it off. I still haven't given up completely on his campaign. As long as he ...

When I heard that President Obama was supporting a hike in the retirement age to 67, that was it. He has now made himself as much a threat to me and America's working class as any Republican ...

There are some Democrats out there who need to wake up to the John Edwards phenomenon. "The latest Newsweek poll shows John ...

In a highly-rec'd diary, My Left Behind used a faked email from ...

The other day my oldest brother, Ron (I have four), emailed me the following request: The following is an argument by our brother, Steve, for not increasing taxes on the rich. Can you ...

Oh yes, there is much to fear during the next few days. The thing that Congressional Democrats need to fear is ANY kind of 'solution' that the Republicans present to them in a crisis. I, personally,

According to the New York ...

On his blog, Paul Krugman presents a graph from ...

In reading the comments of those who've been encouraging Edwards supporters to switch to Obama, I've noticed that at least some prefer Obama because they perceive Edwards to be 'not authentic.' It'...

In my previous diary ( it remained on the Rec List for 24+ hours ), I shared my response ...

If he is, then he might want to ponder some of the points I make in this [previously posted] diary. In the economics classes I’ve taught, I’ve always looked forward to the ...

Barbara Ehrenreich's poignant Preying On The Poor provides us with an all-too-accurate picture of The Poor as chronic victims of a hard-hearted Business Class. It is a sad reality that many of us ...