Bernie won the SNL debate but a few hours before the show aired, the Washington Post's Paul Kane asserted that "For almost four months, House Democrats have enjoyed something that once seemed unattainable: relative calm inside their caucus.
Jason Johnson's tweet storm yesterday, led me to The Root, where he's politics editor and where he wrote a piece this week, Mayor Pete Ain’t Got to Lie, Deval Patrick Is Gonna Try and the Harris Campaign Won’t Die: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 18 1/2.
Pretty decent debate last night. Elizabeth started off strong but in the end Bernie won. Biden was as pathetic as usual and I get more certain by the day that I would never vote for him-- and I was completely certain of that in 1980. Kamala was desperate, dishonest and hideous and ought to drop out this afternoon.
American politics has turned very strange. Of course, much of the reason for that is the truly weird person occupying the White House (and yeah, he’s also corrupt and downright evil, but you can’t deny, he’s just plain weird, too). But it’s definitely not just Trump. Republican sycophancy is at a historic high, and this cycle’s Democratic presidential primary gets pretty high marks for strangeness, too.
Biden's issues-free campaign finally has taken a stand. Old man Biden is against marijuana legalization, calling it a "gateway drug." He's the only major candidate who is. According to Pew, 78% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents want to see legalization.
In 2018 EMILY's List shill, Brooklyn hipster, Hillaryite and wealthy Qualcomm heiress Sara Jacobs tried buying the San Diego/Orange County congressional seat that other people-- not her-- had driven Darrell Issa out of. She failed spectacularly and didn't get through the primary-- after spending $2,125,798 of grandpa's money.
Ipsos did a new national poll for Reuters. I just want to focus on respondents who described themselves as independents (12%) rather than Democrats (43%) or Republicans (37%).
Henry Gomez, reporting for BuzzFeed News, noted yesterday that a pretty major piece of Mayo Pete’s very murky past "remains a mystery to voters. For nearly three years, he worked at McKinsey & Company, an elite management consulting firm with offices around the world. It was work that took him, he has said, to Iraq and Afghanistan.
