Let's start off with some numbers, like the numbers folks at the Trump campaign-- if not their sheltered capo-- are confronting daily. These come from Change Media, one of this cycles' best polling firms.
Yesterday Lindsey Graham told an NBC News reporter, Frank Thorp, that "Biden has had a lot of personal tragedy, so I will never say a bad word about Joe Biden as a person, I just don’t think he’s the right guy to be president. He’s, in my view, a figurehead of the most radical movement in American history that’s coming from AOC and that crowd. And so my differences with Joe Biden are political, and they’re real, they’re wide and they’re deep, but he’s a fine man."OK, I agree that Biden isn't "the right guy to be president." But compared to Trump?
Tomorrow's a big day in Texas-- runoffs for the primaries. Two congressional races with progressive candidates are up for grabs-- TX-10 (Travis-Harris county corridor) and TX-24 (-- where, respectively, Mike Siegel faces moderate vanity candidate Pritesh Gandhi and Candace Valenzuela (Kenny Marchant's abandoned seat in the suburbs northeast of Ft. Worth and northwest of Dallas) faces moderate Kim Olson.
by Thomas NeuburgerThe Democratic Party's "Unity Task Force," the one tasked with merging Biden's proposals with Sanders', has recently released its recommendations, among them this set of proposals for marijuana: "Substance use disorders are diseases, not a crimes. Democrats believe no one should be in prison solely because they use drugs.
COVID-Don with COVID-RonOn Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican-dominated state legislature gave Florida 11,433 new corfimed COVID cases. Yesterday it was 10,360 more, bringing the ghastly total to 254,511 (11,850 per million Floridians). Also on Friday Governor Greg Abbott and his Republican-dominated state legislature gave Texas 10,063 new cases.
Tipping Point by Nancy OhanianA new Ipsos poll for ABC News shows why Trump is going to lose the election in November to the worst candidate the Democrats have nominated in my (very long) lifetime. Biden has nothing to do with it...
The Bernie/Biden unity task forces presented their proposals to Biden this week. No Green New Deal, no Medicare-for-All, no reparations for slavery, no legalized pot, no free college... none of the beautiful, bold ideas that invigorated young voters this cycle. In fact, Biden is promising what he's always promised: no fundamental change, just a little correction around the edges on a few things...
-by Dorothy ReikWhile we are all wringing our hands over vote by mail and long lines at limited polling places, we are missing the big picture. COVID-19 is killing off Black and Brown voters in droves. The dead don’t vote-- except in Trump’s demented mind.CNN reports that 23% of those dying of the virus are Black although they make up only 13% of our population.
