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But we'll lose the most enthusiastic voters ...
How many times have we heard this? “If Sanders isn’t the nominee, we’ll lose the most enthusiastic voters, and it takes enthusiasm to win,” is the cry we read, day in and day out. But is it true?How do...
View ArticleSanders' Health Care Plan
What, exactly, is Senator Sanders’ health care plan, now just two weeks out from the first caucus of primary of the 2016 Presidential election? Well, there isn’t one. There are general themes, plenty...
View ArticleSanders'"College for All Act"
I read it. You can find it HERE. It’s not what you think it is. Summary: Sanders’ plan requires State participation and investment, and would significantly limit the school choices for students. But it...
View ArticleSanders' Paid Vacation Bill
Yes, I know a lot of people really bridle at the thought of analyzing Sanders’ actual bills. Instead, we’re told, either (a) we should talk about the “vision,” not the bill, because it’s the “vision”...
View ArticleSanders' Transaction Tax
I know these diaries upset some people. For some reason, looking at what Senator Sanders has actually submitted as legislation is seen as some sort of attack, because what we’re supposed to look at is...
View ArticleAnswer for Bernie Supporters, from a Clinton Supporter
There was yet another utterly disingenuous diary today with a Sanders supporter asking, ‘golly, gee, whiz, why on earth would ANYbody support Hillary Clinton when she’s such a soulless, dishonest,...
View Article“My own feeling is that the Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt.”
How’s that for an advertisement in every down-ticket Republican race, from the school board to the Senate? “We’ve heard it before,” you might say. Sure you have.But have you heard it from the top of...
View ArticleMore flagging for disagreement
Would you Sanders supporters please put a stop to this shit?Thank you.
View Article"Free Education" and "governors like Scott Walker." Clinton was right.
Last night, at the debate, Hillary Clinton said about Bernie Sanders’“free tuition” plan:And Senator Sanders's plan really rests on making sure that governors like Scott Walker contribute $23 billion...
View ArticlePPP South Carolina
Cross-tabs aren’t out yet, just the story, but Clinton still leads big in South Carolina, and they’re nearing the finish line. The poll was taken Sunday and Monday, so Sanders’ New Hampshire win is...
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"Nazi" is not a joke
We have a new member here on Daily Kos who thinks the user name “LibertarianSocialistNazi” is cute, is good for a giggle. We’re tried to persuade him that it’s not, but he’s so overwhelmed by his own...
View ArticleA Question of Privilege
White guy here, son of a doctor, about as privileged as it gets.And I just had an exchange here on Daily Kos that has me befuddled. It’s like one of those drawings where, when you look at it one way,...
View ArticleWho is really the better general election candidate?
There’s much talk here, based upon hypothetical match-up polling that has never been accurate or relevant come general election time, about who would be the better candidate in November. But that...
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STOP THE DAMNED NAZI REFERENCES!! (Warning - graphic)
Okay, so you like one candidate, not the other. You think everybody who supports your candidate is telling The Truth and doing it gently and respectably, and everybody who disagrees is a...
View ArticleTHIS IS BULLSHIT
I just got my ratings stopped for a week for “flagging for disagreement.”Fuck that.MargaretPOA wrote a very difficult and heart-felt diary about her experience in the Navy before DADT. You can read it...
View ArticleOh FFS
I get it. A lot of people are disappointed. I’ve been there, and I’ve been disappointed, too. But the constant stream of inanities, from emails to Hillary Clinton’s undergraduate love life, seem...
View ArticleSuper Delegates - how should they vote?
There is much sturm und drang about super delegates. How should they vote? At first, we heard they should vote as their state went. Recently, Tad Devine has suggested they should vote however the last...
View ArticleIt's just halftime in the primary
Don’t you just love sports analogies? I mean, nobody quits at halftime, right? So let’s get on with a sports analogy, shall we?But this time, let’s make it actually fit the situation.So, here are the...
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California Dreamin'
First, congratulations to Senator Sanders for his big wins in the Utah and Idaho caucuses. (Can we please agree, after this election, to do away with the grossly undemocratic caucus system? Yikes what...
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Yet another BS Nazi comparison (warning)
Sorry to be a bother, folks, and ignore if you want, but right now we have a man on the Republican side of the aisle who is actually emulating at least Mussolini, if not Hitler, and there, for the...
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