...and is favored in Hawai'i, which starts its caucuses in a few minutes.  Between 2008 and 2016 it seems HRC can't organize a caucus ground game to save her life.  In many of these caucus states I've heard what's left of the Dems is a very … [Read more...]

Violent confrontations caused the campaign to cancel a Chicago rally at the last minute tonight.  He's trying to act like the reasonable person citing safety concerns, but Rachel Maddow has done a good job laying out how Trump himself has … [Read more...]

Most of them, anyway. The state party has posted the caucus locations for our two candidates to elect delegates to the national convention.  I did not see the allocation breakdown, but given the March 1st results I expect a relatively … [Read more...]

Two and a half hours after final poll closures the networks finally decided to call Michigan for Sanders moments ago.  It is close, 50-48% or some 22K vote spread.  I guess the trade argument worked, though I for one have never been … [Read more...]

Mitt Romney is apparently keeping his options open after all. … [Read more...]

The Dems are debating in Flint on CNN tonight while the GOP are debating on Fox News.  I can't live-blog them both.  I'm watching the Dem debate, which again is a debate between adults.  This is not to be confused with the GOP debate which … [Read more...]

First Lady Nancy Reagan (nee Anne Frances Robinson) passed away this morning at the age of 94.  She was almost half a generation younger than her husband who would have been 105 last month.  Like him she had Hollywood background.  As First … [Read more...]

So far, he has placed 3rd in IA, 5th in NH, and probably 3rd in SC (though at the moment Bush is a close 4th in SC).  Yet he is being touted as a strong candidate, possibly the one Clinton should fear the most.  I'm sorry, but I just don't … [Read more...]

The shenanigans that we have seen regarding a successor for Justice Scalia before his body is even cold is the just the latest evidence that the constitutional advice and consent process is broken.  While in at least one instance the … [Read more...]

Progressive Massachusetts decided this year to release midterm report cards for both the State House and State Senate, so I wanted to use them as a conversation piece on what it means to be "A Progressive".  There has been a lot of … [Read more...]