Tuesday exit polling had very quickly predicted a Bernie win in Maine-- where he also won in 2016. (In fact, he beat Hillary 64.3% to 35.5%.) But... by the time all the votes were counted:
• Status Quo Joe- 34.1%• Bernie- 32.9%• Elizabeth- 15.7%• Bloomberg- 12.0%• Tulsi- 0.9%
How did that happen? We asked former Senate candidate (2008) Laurie Dobson. This is what she wrote:
Bloomberg dropped out of the presidential race this morning, after spending half a billion dollars to... win a couple of delegates from American Samoa. Obviously, he endorsed Status Quo Joe, loving his unofficial campaign slogan, "Nothing will fundamentally change." Want to throw up? "I’ve always believed that defeating Donald Trump starts with uniting behind the candidate with the best shot to do it.
Last week, Danny Goldberg-- author, former chairman of Warner Bros Records, former manager of Nirvana-- penned an article for The Nation, In California Before the Democratic Primary, 'Nobody Knows Anything'. He was talking about Hollywood and the Biz.
Trump wants to prove he was right all along by banning travel into the U.S. from Mexico (to prevent coronavirus). As I was writing this the U.S.-- the world's example of how not to deal with a pandemic-- has 72 confirmed cases (probably closer to 72,000) while Mexico has 4 confirmed cases.
I had dinner with civil rights icon Fergie Reid last night and we were discussing how both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders had backed the 90for90 voter registration initiative but how Mayo Pete's team had refused. I noted that Mayo's racism was hardly something new or unknown.
