By León Krauze SLATEST March 15, 2020 A word of advice to Joe Biden after Sunday night’s debate: Call AOC. In the two weeks that have seen Biden take back his position as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, one voice has emerged as the progressive movement’s beacon of clarity. It’s not Bernie Sanders, who […]
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REMEMBERING THE 1957 ASIAN FLU EPIDEMIC
SAY YOUR PRAYERS AND TAKE YOUR CHANCES by Clark Whelton, CITY JOURNAL March 13, 2020 Health Care Surrounded by amulets of the coronavirus crisis, I stare out my window at a city that may or may not be on the verge of disaster. To my right is a case of canned pasta. To my left […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #94 — Michigan’s Presidential Primary & Coronavirus Challenge
BALLENGER: MICHIGAN FAMOUS FOR SPECTACULAR POLITICAL UPSETS, BUT NOT THIS YEAR
Michigan primary elections famous for surprises by Francis X. Donnelly and Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News March 11, 2020 When Hillary Clinton lost the Michigan primary in 2016, some analysts described it as one of the biggest upsets in the annals of modern political history. Michiganians yawned. After all, this is the state where […]
NEEDING AN IMMEDIATE BIG WIN, CAN BERNIE GO ON THE ATTACK AGAINST BIDEN?
by Matt Taibbi Real Clear Politics March 9, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at Virginia Wesleyan University in Norfolk, Virginia Samuel Corum/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A former aide to Bernie Sanders tells a story about the old days, when the little-known House Independent used to crisscross Vermont holding town hall […]
RIEGLE EMERGES FROM HIDING, JOINS BERNIE AT FLINT’S BALLENGER FIELDHOUSE
By Roberto Acosta MLive/Flint Journal March 9, 2020 FLINT, MI – Bernie Sanders was like a returning rock star Saturday night during a town hall on the campus of Mott Community College. “It’s great to be back here in Flint,” the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate told the crowd of roughly 1,200 supporters waving […]
DID GENDER SINK DEMOCRATIC WOMEN IN 2020? NOPE.
Warren, Klobuchar, Harris, Gillibrand: ALL GONE! Elizabeth Warren is a disrupter at a time when many voters are exhausted by Donald Trump and looking for salve. That is why the odds are on Joe Biden. Jill Lawrence March 7, 2020 USA TODAY Gone are the women, the black candidates, the Hispanic candidate, the gay candidate. The Democrats […]
WILL BIDEN KICK IT AWAY?
By Patrick J. Buchanan Real Clear Politics March 7, 2020 Share Pat’s Columns: Friday – March 5, 2020 “All in all, a triumphal week for Biden, who racked up 11 state primary victories. Before last Saturday, he had not won a single primary in three presidential campaigns. But if earlier reports of the demise of […]
DEMOCRATS EXECUTE A SHOCKINGLY COORDINATED PIVOT
A FRACTIOUS PARTY UNITES By Jim Newell Real Clear Politics March 4, 2020 It worked. Joe Biden used his resounding South Carolina primary victory on Saturday night to quickly knock out—and earn the endorsements of—two rivals, coalescing the other center-left candidates around his candidacy just in time for Super Tuesday. Center-left voters wary of a […]
SLATE: WE’LL MISS ‘MAYOR PETE’
by William Saletan SLATE online On Sunday night, Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, dropped out of the presidential race. With each passing week, he had lost ground—first in Iowa, second in New Hampshire, third in Nevada, fourth in South Carolina—and he was facing a grim landscape on Super Tuesday. Many […]