Um...Warren is done. She won’t win any delegates in Nevada or South Carolina, either, so she’s banking on finding some way to emerge from Super Tuesday with a justification for remaining in the race. And that justification is not coming.

Bloomberg’s appeal is almost entirely illusory. I mean, yeah, on one hand it probably is an indictment on the field, but more than that, it’s just rich guy who hasn’t stood on the stage making the easiest centrist appeal. For the most part, the country doesn’t really know who he is, but they do like the idea that…

If that choice were available, you would obviously be wise to jump at it. But just getting five won’t be an option. The choice will be between getting 38 or giving up entirely.

Winning a legal argument for an amendment that has met the constitutional requirements for ratification is much less of a long shot than trying to get the amendment ratified all over again.

Believe me, I understand the challenges of achieving meaningful or real progress, especially the ratification of a progressive amendment to the United States Constitution. That doesn’t meaningfully alter the arithmetic that this was never going to work, and that starting over (as bad and unattractive as it is as an…

Even if you were to argue that the deadline shouldn’t matter, you have the problem of several state legislatures that either rescinded their support for the ERA or that underscored the deadline in their support for it. As much as it sucks to say that we need to start over, especially given the current makeup of state…

That was the year. It was also the year where, predictably, Phil Collins ended up winning for that terrible Tarzan earworm that was easily the worst song nominated and probably worse than half a dozen original songs from 1999 movies that weren’t nominated. 

It’s weird that Best Song is still an Oscar category, but I think the last time I may have ever watched an Oscars telecast from start to finish was probably 1999 when my main purpose for watching was to see whether Aimee Mann or the guys from South Park were going to win for best song. 

That’s not an accurate statement. The Biden campaign was the first to openly criticize the failures of the process, but if you go back and read the letter they put out that was directed to the Iowa Democratic Party or any of the statements made since, you’d be hard pressed to portray any of it as being designed to…

I don’t think she thinks or implies that both sides are equally bad. I think the moderates’ general assumption is that the Democrats will be lucky to emerge from this cycle with a 50-50 senate. And even if they do, they probably won’t even have the votes to kill the filibuster—and even if they do, that will just make…

But what I’m asking is what gives anybody the sense that *if* Sanders loses, his supporters will learn the right lesson in defeat and join the establishment Democratic Party. They haven’t learned the right lesson from any previous defeat. Why would they learn the right lesson now?

Sanders is so poorly tested as a candidate in large part because people are afraid of alienating his base—and because they take for granted that the majority of the party will eventually coalesce around a last candidate standing in opposition to him.

I’m willing to lose with Sanders if it means his base will get under the tent longterm.

Klobuchar has become a kind of Hillary Clinton (post 2016) type of candidate. Her entire persona from the start has been that of a mother who’s losing her patience with the kids and who is also desperate to make sure everybody knows that she’s the only person in the room who is telling you the truth.

How many should they have needed to receive? This is the problem with speaking in insinuation. Say what you mean. Don’t leave the reader to try to decipher why you think the things you’re saying are or should be perceived as suspicious. 

My point, though, is that Warren waited until she got to the topic of healthcare to acknowledge that, with or without the filibuster, we’re not going to be able to flip a switch. Everything about what she’d released prior to her healthcare plan and everything about her messaging up to that point was about her…

I just wish she’d been more forthright about that from the start. I think she’d be in a much better place today if she had staked claim to the middle ground between Sanders and Biden earlier in her campaign.

I’ve never worked in a campaign field office, but I’ve worked in several nonprofit community outreach organizations with a similar structure and purpose as a campaign field office, and let me say that it is an absolutely adorably cynical claim that anything I’ve said is anywhere near the border of “abuse.”

Historically, Iowa (for better or worse) is the second most important night of the entire primary season (after Super Tuesday). This year could be an outlier in which is means next to nothing. This would be the scenario in which Biden outperforms his polling either in New Hampshire or Nevada, rights the ship for a big…

Not bad, but it also feels like a very elaborate and very on-the-nose lay up. If Warren had an opponent with an online supporter base that were prone to conspiracy theories, I’m sure they would already be working on the perfect hashtag structure to identify this voter as a shameless, cynical plant.