He Can Do It by Nancy OhanianThe Kaiser Family Foundation and Cook just released a fascinating report about the "blue wall states," where last cycle's centrist status quo Democrat did so miserably against Trump. They chose 4 states-- Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
As of January 29, Republican oligarch Michael Bloomberg-- who is spending a million dollars a day on Facebook ads alone and who has the largest paid campaign staff in American history-- had spent $24,090,200 on TV ads in Texas.
Votes have finally still dribbling in from the New Hampshire primary when I was finishing up on this post. 100% of the votes have now been counted and all the candidates-- except Status Quo Joe, who was in South Carolina-- were already off to Nevada. The New Hampshire numbers were catastrophic for Biden but didn't cause him to drop out the way they did for Andrew Yang, Michael Bennet and Deval Patrick.
Everyone I know has come to absolutely hate Mayo Pete, mostly due to the fact that he's a plastic phony careerist running for president because of himself, not because of the American people. Was he always such a creep? When he was a senior in high school closeted young Pete won the John F Kennedy Presidential Library's annual Profiles in Courage Essay Contest. This was Mayo Pete in 2000.
He Can Do It by Nancy OhanianThere are a couple of theories about the strategy of beating Trump-- something that right now, the 5 top Democrats (even Mayor Pete, albeit by just 1 point) are seen doing in head-to-head match-ups. One strategy is to get Republicans and Republican-leaning independents to vote for the Democratic nominee.
I had a great afternoon on Sunday. I heard two inspiring congressional candidates speak at a fundraiser on Bunker Hill, Mike Siegel (TX-10) and Cenk Uygur (CA-25), one of Mike's supporters and a co-host of the event. Both were uplifting and inspiring, as were the other speakers. When I got home the phone was ringing.
Mayo Pete didn't come out of the closet until he was 33-- in 2015, when he was in electoral politics and there was no doubt he would be outed if he didn't do it himself. Last year, when he wasn't a top candidate, the New York Times' Jeremy Peters wrote the LGBTQ story on Pete.
I guess the Iowa counting is done now. Here's how the establishment cheated Bernie. In the first round, he received 43,699 votes (24.7%) to Mayo Pete's 37,596 votes (21.3%). In the second round Bernie received 45,842 votes (26.5%) to Mayo's 43,274 votes (25.1%). As you know 43,699 and 24.7% are more than 37,596 and 21.3% and 45,842 and 26.5% are more than 43,274 25.1%.
He Can Do It (detail] by Nancy OhanianTomorrow's the first-in-the-nation primary: New Hampshire. Bernie is looking like a winner there again, something that will be hard for the Establishment to write off as "he's just a neighbor" because of how poorly Elizabeth Warren and Deval Patrick, also neighbors, seem to be faring. The polling pretty much all shows Bernie polling in first place.
