Maybe you should go back and refresh your memory on the things candidate Obama ran on. He ran as a pragmatic idealist. The policies he ran on were virtually identical to the ones Clinton ran on in 2008. He was just a stronger messenger of those policies. Anybody who thinks there was a gulf between the candidate and…

Out of curiosity, who’s ticket do you think he’s going to find himself on? Back at the start of the fall/end of the summer, I thought he was auditioning to be Warren’s pick, but she seems to be foundering.

Castro was a much stronger presence in the campaign than I expected him to be. In the past, I’d always seen him as a kind of John Edwards figure (i.e., an attractive empty suit whom the party wanted to elevate for reasons related to geography and demographics), but he was a lot more genuine-seeming than John Edwards…

Except more people voted in the 2016 primary than in the 2008 primary (which itself had an enormously large turnout), and Clinton won by seven percentage points (approximately 400,000 votes).

Strictly speaking, when you write a compound sentence that’s linked with a conjunctive adverb, it is appropriate to use a semicolon before and a comma after the conjunctive adverb. That is: “Bernie would win/would have won in November if he *were* (really, dude, use the past participle; it is the proper way to phrase…

Dude, “Bernie would win if he was the nominee” is actually a grammatically incoherent turn of phrase because of your use of the word “was.” In place of “was,” you want to use “were” or “had been,” depending on when you’re making the statement.

Okay, here’s your grammar lesson. “Would have” plus a past participle does not refer to something that happened in the past. It is a modal verb phrase. A conditional statement that, in this context, refers to a hypothetical outcome that theoretically might have occurred but cannot occur (and later did not occur)…

Gosh. Grammatically incorrect? Really? So we are going to add compound sentences and independent clauses to the list of concepts you need somebody to explain to you. I’ll leave that explanation to somebody else.

The argument was “Look at these polls. Hillary is going to lose, but Bernie would’ve won.” So yeah, they were making the argument after the nomination battle was over to try to convince super delegates to overturn the will of the Democratic electorate.

I sense skepticism. But it happened. It’s already happening now. If the Democratic Party nominates the person Sanders clearly believes is going to be the nominee, they will get destroyed by Trump, or so says Bernie Sanders.

Well, obviously, that is the subtext. I wonder if it’s the up front check or the tiny decimal off the backend he may have written into her deal.

Saying “disenfranchised/disillusioned” is a cynical bit of pandering that does a disservice to the actually disenfranchised holding up their plight as being equivalent to people who chose not to participate in the process because it didn’t affect them and/or they just couldn’t get excited about a candidate.

Actually, I think the main reason why it has traction is because the people whom Bernie attracts are the same people that the institutional Democratic Party has been telling to eat shit for thirty years.

The biggest problem with the “Bernie would have won” lament is not that it’s based almost entirely on magical thinking (although it is). The problem is that it was a narrative the Sanders campaign decided to amplify the moment he lost California and, therefore, any rational or reasonable argument for remaining in the…

There’s no requirement. But in the confines of that narrative, there was no reason that her plan needed to be secret other than creating plot. It is not as though she suspected that Poe was a traitor sending information to the First Order. She just chose not to reassure anybody in the remaining fleet that she had a…

A New Hope is tonally a bit of a mish mash because it’s a bit of a homage to old adventure serials, which are not that emotionally deep and because it’s the movie from OT that George Lucas had the most control over, and he’s not emotionally deep.

Boba Fett is more of a Western/Samurai archetype than an actual character. He’s not really under written as he is a silent bad ass who is there to look and act like a bad ass. People got frustrated with the way his character gets “wasted” in Jedi mainly because of the cool shit they expected him to do because of how…

And they all seem more or less okay with that. I know that in terms of the story, a lot of people died. Go compare the final act of Empire, where our heroes are that their lowest to the final act of TLJ, a movie that should have ended without the salt planet battle.

Personally, I think Rose was written as a plot device more than a character. She exists to be Finn’s travel companion/guide through an ultimately pointless diversion that functions mainly as a hamfisted attempt at satirical allegory only to be shoehorned into being his romantic suitor at the end.

Google Star Wars Christmas Special. But I’m warning you: Don’t watch it.