Yesterday, The Washington Post introduced us to a sad new feature of its 2020 coverage, The Post 2020 Power Ranking. Karen Tumulty, the moderator, noted that her "pick for the most interesting candidate-to-be is Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
Jim McGovern (D-MA) is one of the most progressive members of Congress. His D+9 central Massachusetts district-- which includes Worcester, Northampton, Amherst and Uxbridge-- gave Trump just 36.8% of its vote. Last year McGovern beat Republican Tracy Lovvorn two to one-- 191,332 (67.2%) to 93,391 (32.8%). In the 2 decades between 1998 and 2018, the Republicans had only fielded candidates against him in 2004 (28%) and 2010 (39.2%). He has a safe seat and his 96.7 ProgressivePunch lifetime crucial vote score is in the top 10 in Congress.
Hunter Walker, Yahoo News' White House correspondent reported last week that Bernie is set to announce that he's running. My sources inside the gestating campaign told me Walker is just guessing.
Northam now says it wasn't him in the photo. Was it Joe Biden?Ralph Northam has a long, horrible, conservative career in Virginia politics. For starters, he admits he voted for George W. Bush-- both times. In his own 2013 campaign, Northam said "I don’t consider myself as a liberal... I think the less government, the better" and said he is "very conservative fiscally." He has a record in the state legislature to back it up.
Tom Moran is the editorial page editor of the Newark Star-Ledger, New Jersey's top newspaper. This morning before dawn he ws writing about Cory Booker's official, but not unexpected, announcement that he is running for president. He's probably not as bad as some of the other moderates-pretending-to-be-progressives but he's not someone I'd want to see as the Democratic nominee. Better than Trump? Duh. Better than Gillibrand, Biden, Bloomberg? Um... probably around the same, maybe a tad better that Gillibrand. Better than Bloomberg. Same as Beto.
Marianne Williamson is different from any other Democratic candidate for president-- so the rest of them, and the establishment media, are all ignoring her. She wasn't on 60 Minutes or on with Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O'Donnell... or even CNN. Marianne has reached millions of people through her books and lectures, including four New York Times number one bestsellers. More people know who she is than the Starbucks Guy let alone some random member of Congress who thinks he or she would make a good president.
Last night Marianne Williamson announced her presidential campaignThank God Gina Raimondo isn't running for president. Everyone else is.
Yesterday, Dave Weigel tweeted "One fallacy you’ll never see me fall for is that an election between Trump and 'someone on the left like Warren' would leave a huge path in the middle. If you’re saying that, find me the polls and point to the unpopular idea the left is running on.
