Bern Out
For those millions of people enduring the withdrawal symptoms of no more NFL weekends or fantasy football, I offer some hope: you can get Vegas odds on the actual day he announces he is "suspending" his campaign.
Frank Underwood For President!
I just received my campaign materials from the Underwood Super PAC.
Bernie Sanders' Secret Service Code Name
Taking your suggestions right now.
Political Candidates Should Be Like NASCAR Drivers
I wish that in every Presidential debate, candidates from both parties were required to wear NASCAR jackets, displaying the logos of their biggest donors.
Hillary Clinton Declares Iowa Victory In A Dead Heat
John Cassidy (in his New Yorker blog post this morning) summarizes a startling demographic result from last night's Democrat caucuses in Iowa:
"The age gap between Clinton supporters and Sanders supporters was huge. According to the entrance polls, which wrongly predicted a Clinton victory, Sanders got eighty-six per cent of the Democratic vote in the seventeen-to-twenty-four age group, eighty-one per cent in the twenty-five-to-twenty-nine group, and sixty-five per cent in the thirty-to-thirty-nine age group. Clinton, by contrast, was largely reliant on the middle-aged and the elderly. Among forty-something voters, she won by five percentage points. Among the over-fifties, she won by more than twenty per cent."
As Bill Belichick would say, "we're on to New Hampshire".
Democratic Primary: Bernie Or Hillary?
We'll learn a lot more about the race for the nomination as the Iowa results emerge tonight, but this is an issue of critical importance for me.
Hillary's Emails
What's most troubling here is not that the unclassified emails on her personal server have now been classified "Top Secret", but that they were there at all in the first place. The arrogance, sense of entitlement, and stupidity of her decision as Secretary Of State to do things her way, for her personal convenience, put people and operations at risk and, in my opinion, disqualify her from leading this country as president.
Eyes Wide Open On Bernie Sanders
"...Sanders, as I understand him, isn’t claiming that his ambitious and costly program is realistic in today’s Washington. To the contrary, he says that the political system is so broken, and so in hock to big money, that it is virtually impossible to effect nearly any substantive progressive change. The only way to make big changes, Sanders argues, is to create a mass movement that faces down corporate interests and their quislings. Once this movement materializes, all sorts of things that now seem out of the question—such as true universal health care, free college tuition, and a much more progressive tax system—will become possible."
This excerpt from John Cassidy's New Yorker post today is a pretty clear-eyed assessment of the Sanders candidacy. I have believed from the outset that both Sanders and Donald Trump have tapped into the same current of extreme dissatisfaction within the American public in general, which is far more widespread and apolitical than the Washington commentariat understands.