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Alone among the Democrats who are running for President, John Edwards has boldly made his desire to eliminate poverty a central theme of his campaign, citing the need ...

Although I have supported John Edwards for the past couple of years, the continuing debate on Dailykos between Obama fans and Edwards fans has led me to the realization that I would really like to ...

I'm sorry, but the Kossacks and MSM have to openly reject the Clinton Campaign's claim that Hillary 'mis-spoke' when she exaggerated the drama of her arrival in Bosnia. Mis-speaking is something ...

...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'

" Economists suck. " That quote is from a comment economist Mark Thoma put up on his blog about a year ago entitled "

We are all quite aware of just how amazingly disciplined the Republicans seem to be when it comes to memes and talking points. It's almost as though someone sat them down and explained to them at ...

We are quickly approaching a climactic moment that could mean everything to the Democratic Party. The Bush administration + Fed Chair Ben Bernanke have approached Congressional Democrats to ask ...

In his master plan to save the economy from ruin, John McCain promises more of the same wrong-headed tax cuts that got us in this mess in the first place. In ...

( Cross posted at Nontrivial Pursuits ) There is one time when you can be absolutely certain someone is lying to you, and that is when their words are directly contradicted by their actions. The ...

( Cross-posted at Nontrivial Pursuits ) I am reposting this because I am actually quite proud of the fact that I was able to write an I-P diary that (1) speaks positively about the Palestinians, (2)

In another diary, nocynicism voiced an extremely legitimate question re: Bernie Sanders political ambitions, asking " How will he get all this accomplished with no help from Republicans? He will ...

The Clinton campaign's dubious decision to start attacking Bernie with misrepresentations of his agenda is perhaps a very ominous sign for the many members of the Dailykos family who have invested the

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,

We are now hearing from the Associated Press that...  In the past three weeks, Sanders' campaign has spent about $4.7 million on ads to Clinton's $3.7 million, an investment that so far has me

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

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

Hillary Clinton is given lately to describing herself as a Progressive who can get things done.   But if you actually look at her record, it is difficult to confirm that she has any kind of abili

The headline on CNN’s Politics page read, “Clinton's Hill supporters ready to hit Sanders after New Hampshire”, quoting several notable Capitol Hill Democrats, including Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Sch

The fundamental problem Clinton’s campaign strategists are facing right now is the fact that... When people get to know the real Bernie Sanders, they like him It is the KEY reality which has

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

My reservations re: Hillary Clinton’s dispositions on foreign policy go back to 2008. They were indeed the key reason I ultimately chose to support Barack Obama in 2008. But it wasn’t just the si

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

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

My reservations re: Hillary Clinton’s dispositions on foreign policy go back to 2008.  They were indeed the key reason why I ultimately chose to support Barack Obama over Hillary during his march to the White House that year. It wasn’t simply th

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

If you’re a Bernie Sanders supporter, you’ve heard it a million times: we need to change the tax code so that rich people will start paying their fair share in taxes.   But what do the words their fair share actually mean?  Bernie provides us...

Why indeed?   A lot of Hillary supporters out there have been proclaiming since March 16th that Bernie Sanders has virtually no chance of winning enough delegates to grab the Democratic nomination.  The challenge he faces, they say, is too...

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...

The quote, "...lay off Bernie Sanders a little bit, OK?", may sound “uninformed’ to many of Hillary’s ardent fans here at Dailykos, but you have to admit that there is a certain amount of political logic to it. I mean, after all, if Hillary Clinton...

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...

I just had to share this with you guys... My wife just told me about her lunch hour debate with a Clinton-supporting friend. When they got around to discussing the topic of electability, her ...

It has been noted that Sarah Palin was once a champion of earmarks (as mayor of Wasilla) before she eventually decided she was against them. In response to critics who pointed out that she ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm predicting that Hillary Clinton will soon accept a 'deal', perhaps in the next couple of days, perhaps in the next several hours, that will effectively end her campaign for President. The deal?

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 ...

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

Wow. Suddenly, the political landscape has shifted dramatically. House Republicans have made it clear that they now know they have a political opportunity to exploit, an opportunity that just ...

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 ...

Substantial educational EXPERIENCE is the most valuable kind of EXPERIENCE that we voters should ask of any citizen who is to be considered worthy of the office of President of the United ...

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'...

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 ...

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 ...