Last week Snoopydawg let us know about how "The democrats called people in Montana who had signed the Green Party ballot and bullied them into recanting their signatures. The democrats also got the GP kicked off the ballot in Wisconsin."
This is starting to feel a whole bunch like 2016.
Back then Trump managed to steal the white working-class votes in the Rust Belt states because he talked about bad trade deals and how they cost us whole industries, while the Democrats wouldn't even consider the topic. The Democrats didn't care about the white working class in the Rust Belt states. They took them for granted for 40 years.
It's that time of the year again.
OK. It's the Onion, but you had to wonder for a second, didn't you?
There was an article in "The Week" about how the government fiscal policies worked. I kind of suck at this kind of thing, but I understood this article:
"The basic economic misunderstanding that's screwing up the coronavirus response"
https://theweek.com/articles/902903/basic-economic-misunderstanding-that...
Trump was already slightly to the left of the Democratic establishment on issues of wars and trade, but now the parties have totally switched positions.
The Democratic Party is a joke. Of course this isn't news to anyone around here, but after.... whatever the hell that was last night, it's apparent to pretty much everybody.
The DMR/Selzer poll fiasco the other day left the most trusted pollster in the country and CNN with egg on their face. But last night left every network in the country scrambling to make sense (and fill time) of the biggest clusterfuck in modern political history.
This will likely be the end of the Iowa caucus, and probably the entire caucus system. And it was a 100% self inflicted humiliation.
Iowa is still in play, but Bernie is placed well and has the momentum.
All he has to do is win by a single percent.
N.H. is pretty much over. Bernie has this one.
I. Can't.
Here's the link, but I frankly wouldn't bother:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-eli...
The TL;DR version is "Both the radical and the realist models warrant serious consideration. If there were ever a time to be open to new ideas, it is now. If there were ever a time to seek stability, now is it.
Joe Biden said that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong un called him a rabid dog who should be beaten with a stick. Overnight polling of likely Dem voters after the debate shows Kim pulling ahead of John Delaney in Iowa.
