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Last Night’s Brown & Black Forum in Iowa
Clinton, O’Malley and Sanders take the stage live from Iowa to discuss where they stand on the issues that matter to young, diverse America. Including: social justice, immigration, education, health care, and the economy. The Forum is moderated by FUSION anchors Jorge Ramos and Alicia Menendez as well as FUSION contributor Akilah Hughes and New York Magazine Writer-at-Large Rembert Browne.
Help Bernie Sanders get on the Ballot in the Delaware
While I may not be a Bernie supporter, I am all about fair play. So if you are so inclined, and you want to help collect signatures so Bernie Sanders can get on the ballot in the Delaware, please read the following information. If you just want to sign a petition form so that he gets on the ballot, please contact de4bernie@gmail.com.
Townsend has an impressive haul
State Senator and Congressional candidate Bryan Townsend released his 2015 fundraising totals for last year, bringing in over $212,000 in the last three months of 2015. According to the campaign, Delawareans made up more than 63% of their donors and more than half of their donations were for $250 or less.
Monday Open Thread [1.11.2016]
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Dan Balz: “The more the Republican candidates have amped up their rhetoric, the more they have triggered a sharp response from the Democrats. Hillary Clinton, who said last fall that she is proud to think of Republicans as enemies, never seems happier on the campaign trail than when she is denouncing the other party as one captured by extremists.”
Saturday Open Thread [1.9.2016]
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David Corn on why this is the most unpredictable race for the Republican nomination in generations:
The reason for the chaos, though, is obvious. The party elite has become unmoored from the party’s base—and that base has veered further into extreme territory. After years of being fed Obama hatred—death panels, gun-grabs, and secret socialism imported from Kenya by a terrorist-loving covert Muslim!—many die-hard GOP voters are alienated from elected Republicans who haven’t been able to repeal Obamacare, impeach the president, or, better yet, lock him in shackles. Consequently, the wise men of the party can no longer easily direct its voters toward a preferred candidate. At least, not when self-financing, say-anything Donald Trump is in the race, brazenly exploiting the anger and frustration the party’s leaders had previously fueled for their own purposes. So the GOP is in for weeks, if not months, of disorder, in what will likely be a historic break from its usually orderly past. For a party that has encouraged fear and loathing, this is what democracy looks like.
Perhaps if the GOP Establishment had not been so blinded by racism, and if they had not decided on a strategy of opposition that employed complete and total obstruction, and instead worked on compromises with the President and the Democrats, their base would been kept in line. But then again, plenty of GOP incumbents still lost to tea party crazies despite this total obstruction strategy (remember Mike Castle!). No, it is likely that this is all the end result of the base been more aligned with talk radio and Fox News that it is with the Party itself. If Rush Limbaugh et al stoking fear and loathing 24/7 since 1993, this was eventually bound to happen. And it could not happen to a better party.
The Weekly Addresses
In this week’s address, the President remarked on the incredible progress that has been made in the American auto industry.
In his weekly message, Governor Markell underlines the significance of employing people with disabilities as a means of growing the economy and driving social change.
Friday Open Thread [1.8.2016]
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If you are one of those people who isn’t buying the Republican fear mongering about how this country is going to hell in a hand basket and the world is on fire, you’ll want to read Michael Grunwald’s piece titled: Everything Is (Even More) Awesome!
America is already great, and it’s getting greater. Not everything is awesome, but in general, things are even more awesome than they were a year ago. The rest of the world can only wish it had our problems.
Start with the economy, which, if you listen to Sanders or the Republicans, is a garbage dump of existential despair. Actually, it’s doing quite well. Unemployment has dropped from 10 percent during the worst of the Great Recession to 5 percent today, thanks to a record 69 consecutive months of private-sector employment growth that has produced 13.7 million new jobs. The past two years have been the best two years for job creation in the 21st century. After a near-death experience during the financial meltdown of 2008, the U.S. auto industry enjoyed record sales in 2015. The housing market has also rebounded from the crisis, and after-tax corporate profits are at an all-time high. It can sound partisan to mention those facts when a Democrat is in the White House, but they’re facts; it ought to be possible to acknowledge them without necessarily giving President Obama too much credit for them. […]
Sean Barney just got our attention
I am still a Bryan Townsend partisan, but Sean Barney just got my attention through the announcement of his campaign team. Come inside to see. Teaser: Joe Trippi.
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