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The following USA Today piece is not by horse race junkies but by Robert Alexander, director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University, is author of "Representation and the Electoral College." Lauren Copeland is an assistant professor and associate director of the Community Research Institute at Baldwin Wallace University
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 10:55pm
I wish Tom Steyer had stayed out of the race and continued to pump money into Democratic candidates.
Is that a "SuperPAC"? I don't care. THe Republicans have crooked Saudi & Russian money, NRA money, huge billionaire donors, assholes like Karl Rove doing their PACs, and a variety of other legal and illegal sources of money. At this point I just care about someone smart enough to win, preferably understanding coattails to bring in others who will support an agenda. Do SuperPACS imply compromise? Fine, cut off that 10-15% of the progressive agenda if it's not the most important part and call it the price of doing business. Elections have consequences, being rich & embedded into the business/power structure has consequences. We're getting slaughtered except for Nov 2018, and we seem to have lost the focus that made those midterms a success.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/28/2020 - 5:10am
JuvieTheGreat disagrees with you on Steyer, PP
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/28/2020 - 10:11pm
There are criteria for wearing a tie while rapping - cf. the Hump:
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 2:13am
Actually very intriguing! I clearly am missing a lot of the jokes. What is the price tag on the hat about? Is he basically the Minnie Pearl of rap?
All that said, Steyer's tie hits me as a richer signifier, more irony. It's very WASP--Tartan!
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 4:20am
Yeah, Minnie Pearl - good eye for a bargain buy tie.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 4:30am
thinking how Minnie Pearl style self-deprecation pretty much a good sign of successful assimilation going on
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/29/2020 - 5:13am
Whatever Warren's up to, she's taking big risks as far as possibly alienating the lefty base:
Elizabeth Warren Super PAC Run by Former ‘Oil Advocacy Group’ Frontman
@ LawandCrime.com | 6:03 pm, February 28th, 2020
She's also smart enough to know all the purity testing stuff ends at the convention. Doing an "ends justify the means" at this point?
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/28/2020 - 9:18pm
Obama's followers hated Superdelegates until he got enough of them.
Bernie hates Superdelegates because he's not tied into the party mechanism.
As has been known for a while, Superdelegates are one party mechanism to avoid suicide.
We may need it this year. It's less undemocratic than Caucuses - Superdelegates are people
who put in work, chaperone the party to a more winning position.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/28/2020 - 5:03am
The current rules are Sanders' creation. He was heavily involved in the rules that exist today.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 02/28/2020 - 7:20am