Bernie 2020

I don't have the impression that most Democratic political leaders have a clear program for going forward as a nation. Republicans, though  do. The conservatives' vision is dystopian but they never take their eye off their goals. Obsessive money-greed does that to people. It's a problem.

Here's hopin'A post yesterday depressed me-- let me share it with you... no, just kidding; I already did: Why We Can't Have Nice Things. I felt right after I posted it that I couldn't just let it lie there, unresolved.

Too extreme for the Scouth Carolina Democratic establishment?A question that often comes up in the comments section-- which has about 3 regular commenters-- is about why anyone (myself generally) could assert the Democratic Party is better than the Republican Party. Wishful thinking, mostly... although the Democrats aren't really as bad as the Republicans have become.

Yesterday, Bill Barrow at the AP ventured that Trump's midwestern wall is at risk. "The pendulum," he wrote, "could swing against Trump in the band of Great Lakes and Rust Belt states that delivered him to the Oval Office.

I read yesterday that John Kerry is thinking about running for president again. There's a huge battle brewing inside the Democratic Party over who the corporate Dem who will be the representative of the status quo ante to go up against Bernie will be.

Gideon Resnick is wrong. The Daily Beast is wrong. Must be a slow news day, so they made up a story about Elizabeth Warren running for president. She isn't. It wasn't made up out of the blue; it was made up out of a badly misinterpreted keynote address she made at Netroots Nation Friday.

There are very few campaign e-mails with opening, even if it's from one of your favorite candidates. The candidates don't write them and the campaign e-mail-writing industry is the most hackish piece of the political business. The e-mails can ruin the image of even the most authentic candidates.

This week, Morning Consult released extensive polling on the favorability of senators and governors across the country-- every single one of them.

I guess there weren't many DNC super-delegates voting in the massive YouGov poll released on Wednesday. It's a fascinating survey and I'm sure you'll be hearing lots more about it.

I'm sure Bernie will role out his 2020 presidential campaign carefully and on his own time table. In 2015 Blue America was the first independent PAC raising money for his 2016 campaign and this year we are the first independent PAC raising contributions for the 2020 campaign. You can contribute here. Disclaimer: No one from Blue America has talked with him about 2020.