So the folks in the Miami area prefer a corporate connected cheater and liar. Bodes well for the $hill. Too bad about Grayson too. He had much more baggage than Canova. We've been saying for months the Dems are now rethugs. FL has a history of rethugs running as Dems, and now y'all have another one for your senate candidate against Rubio.

I come back again and again to a complicit corporate media misleading the public. Until folks are properly educated we will be manipulated to the end. In FL case - when most of the state floods from ocean rise.

At least you had some progressives running. Consider my fate in deep red (neck) Alabama - a lot like the conservative FL pan-handle. At least we got Jill on our Nov. ballot.

All the best Alphalop

the most ridiculous state in the US. I mean no offense to anyone who lives there, you have enough problems.

Possibly more than any other state, Florida is threatened by massive climate change issues. When I track environmental stuff in the news, I come back to Florida again and again. Action needs to be taken right now, and failing to do so is going to cause incalculable damage, both in money and in lives.

Despite that, they vote for these idiots. Its just incredible the extent to which people fail to look out for their own interests.

whose complexes have their own damn zip codes don't get out much, beyond the mall and the grocery store. Whatever they hear, they heard from their neighbor who heard it from the teevee in the gym. Short-sighted, propagandized, useful idiots...

the party of pay-day lenders, in addition to never-ending wars, and extra-judicial executions when the executive branch authorizes it. Jill is 100% right that voting for the supposed lesser evil has gotten us everything we feared from the greater evil.

The folks in both parties in Florida just love their political grifters, criminals and scammers for political office down there, and continue to vote them in.

Scary.

And if there were, how many were manufactured by a donor to the Clinton political corporation.

Oh now and then a progressive might get elected, but really, when you look at the endorsement of Clinton by nearly all "liberal politicians" (superdelegates), any wonder why progressives lose. Look what happened in AK several years ago with Blanche Lincoln and progressive Bill Halter. The party leaders reduced the number of polling places from 42 to 2--I think there were other shenanigans. I assume the same things defeated Canova along with ballot counting "errors".

I'll say it. Progressives running in the party will be cheated by the establishment. Some exceptions as is always the case. The ones who have a chance are without research and only my guess now, from states with good tamper resistant voting such as Oregon with mail-in ballots, which curiously elected the only Senator who supported Sanders.

Bernie was cheated and it seems that getting any traction against the corporate democrat party is going to be near impossible, between power wielding and cheating. They can promise to deliver government positions and influence that can't be matched by the democratic process.

So are we now on plan B, that is unseating the (D)kleptocrats? I think so. I hate to say it but for the short term the only way to yield power is to threaten the electability of the establishment Ds. To me that means holding your nose and voting for Rs where they appose corporate Ds. The Democrat party will NEVER reform as long as they have political power. The only chance for reform is to put them in the wilderness.

It's not for nothing that they say the Democratic Party is where progressive movements go to die. The core party base consists mainly of A) top ten percenters, degreed professionals with comfortable six-figure incomes who believe the neoliberal policies of the party's leaders work just fine for them; and B) blue team partisans, the low info voters who have an uncritical, tribal devotion to the party elites based on family or community ties, and in some cases patronage, and whose world view is shaped primarily by the mainstream media.

To the extent that progressive candidates like Sanders, Canova and Grayson continue their efforts to make common cause with these groups, which are not the least bit receptive to their message, "progressiveism" as an ideology will continue to be relegated to the radical fringe, safely ignored by mainstream pols and the mass media. Far better and more productive to attempt to build an entirely separate critical mass of voters consisting of the young, the financially threatened, and the huge block of non-voters whose interests are routinely being thrown under the bus by the powers that be.

Slowly but surely, more and more people are waking up to the realization that without a radical course correction, human civilization is heading for a future that will be an apocalyptic nightmare for the vast majority of people on this earth (as it already is for many in the here and now). Those currently in control have absolutely no interest in preventing this from unfolding - in fact, they are doing just about everything they can to accelerate the process. As this reality becomes more widely recognized, new political entities can and will rise to fill the leadership vacuum that currently exists. The question for progressives is whether they can effectively prepare themselves for the opportunities that will undoubtedly present themselves in a future that will be upon us much sooner than most realize.