2020 presidential nomination

When I lived in San Francisco-- in the late '70s and '80s-- Willie Brown was one of the most powerful liberal Democrats in America. Now, at age 85... he's not exactly progressive icon.

Let me pick up where we left off early this morning, in the Blue Grass State. Whitesburg, home of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast, with a population of around 2,000, is the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky. In 2016 the county was Bernie country. And he didn't just beat Hillary; Bernie got more votes than everyone else running in all parties combined. Here's what happened on primary day:

Since Bloomberg's $35 million TV blitz started this week, one friend of mine told me that he's considering him and another told me she had made up her mind and that she's all in-- 100%-- on Bloomberg.Last week, journalist and activist Zaid Jilani penned a tweet storm about rich people buying elections that is very much worth reading.

Here in California, we don't usually get inundated with campaign ads, at least not the way Iowa and New Hampshire-- and more recently, Nevada and South Carolina, do. California has always been too late in the campaign season. And California is, by far, the country's most expensive media market. But that all changed. California is a SuperTuesday state now and early voting will already be in full swing by the time tiny Iowa caucuses.

- A guest post by emorejahongkongCore question for Berners to flesh out and spread to Warren-land: “Can Professor be Student of Her Own Mistakes?”A. History: Warren was a newbie, in electoral politics, who allowed herself to be persuaded that:

Having recently shuttered her offices in New Hampshire, Kamala Harris was in Iowa yesterday, desperately trying to keep her faltering campaign afloat... by handing out cookies at a Des Moines senior center. It isn't working. Her RealClearPolitics Iowa polling average is 3.8%.

Paul Waters-Smith noted, over at Current Affairs that if we want to build popular power, we need an organizer-in-chief and urged his readers to take a chance with a Socialist and "back the one and only chance at a pro-labor presidency we’re likely to have for a generation.

Yesterday, Ryan Lizza noted that all the vaguely viable Democratic presidential campaigns start with "what one close adviser to Barack Obama calls 'The Pilgrimage': the journey to the West End to meet the former president...

ZzzzzzzzzzThe Status Quo Joe campaign intends on rolling out every endorsement it can from status quo establishment politicians. His endorsers tend to be uninspiring centrist, play-it-safe careerists who no one cares about one way or the other. In other words, turgid, vision-free political hacks like himself. For example, he's been endorsed by 5 current U.S. senators (and 10 former senators).

Late yesterday you may have seen the new Boston Globe poll of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters by Suffolk. Bernie led the pack, followed by Elizabeth Warren, Mayo Pete... and Status Quo Joe bringing up the rear.