To be clear, the House rule there is a sound one.

Are there any good analyses of what real impact this amendment has? As anyone who’s though about Medicare for five minutes (let alone read a coverage determination) can tell you, Medicare doesn’t pay for services that aren’t medically necessary (and effective, but that’s not in question here). What number of scenarios…

that urgency to get rid of it apparently hasn’t reached the House of Representatives

Biden has not been irrationally hated by half the country for 20+ years.

Good thing I wasn’t doing that, I suppose. I’m in favor of a no-more-terms-for-Trump strategy. While some people are so distraught over Biden’s history with contraceptive coverage, they seem disturbingly willing to let Trump nominate RGB’s and possibly Breyer’s replacements.

The problem is, the majority of voters aren’t as far left as the candidates you want to align with them. See: literally any presidential election (or even primary season) in the past 70 years. It’s about a third left, a third right, and a slightly larger squishy middle. Of that middle, about 10 percent vacillates…

I could write a much longer post on this but basically- while the population base in the country overall is arguably becoming more progressive those changes are disproportionately distributed — heavily concentrated in areas of the country Democrats already win— this is heavily shorthanded but- getting an additional…

He’s more charismatic, he has a more natural grasp of his own working class roots, he is less vulnerable to damage from gaffes, primarily because he now is embracing his gaffe-prone nature and rebranding it as just being plain spoken (even when the gaffe just involves him lying about shit). He also has a more natural…

One thing this article sidesteps and avoids is that many of these older long term core Democratic primary voters are black.

Squeezed shit in a plastic bag would be less garbage than the article.

Good post. All this lofty talk of coalitions and demography ignore the hard fact that people vote for people, particularly voters in the middle 60% of the population (“moderates”) a lot of whom voted for Obama and Trump. They did that because in both cases, they voted for the more charismatic candidate. If Democrats…

He might be wrong on his policy ideas, more specifically that the people he’s trying to court want these milk toast Republican lite ideas. But he’s 100% correct about twitter and facebook and blogs being the same opinion of the majority of people. Most voters are busy, very busy, with family, jobs, and pets, and shit…

Also and I realize it’s been nearly 8 years and he’s an older person, but I think some progressives are buying into the caricature of Biden that Republicans and the media walked into in 2012-- yes, Biden makes a ton of gaffes, and no, he’s not a policy wonk but political debates are neither National Forensic League…

“This is not a recipe for a lasting coalition. It is stitched together and powered by Trump, who will, one day, no longer be the president. You can’t run against him forever.”

Maybe Biden falls off, I’d like both him and Bernie to, but if it happens, I don’t think it will be the debates for a number of reason.

This. Not being a raving lunatic to get attention during the primaries in order to win in the general is the sign of a seasoned politician, and Diamond Joe has been in the game long enough to have seen this play out. (Notable exemption being our current president of course, but im not sure we want to make that how we…

Not really addressed to you, but really?  People need the Government to pay the $5 a month the birth control pills cost at walmart?  Are there any other extremely minor costs that you believe should be the responsibility of the collective versus the individual?  oh lol of course there are, because everything has to be…

This politics is defined entirely by imagined political enemies. Don’t ever try to change anyone’s mind, just try to find middle ground between yourself and the median Republican voter and emphasize it.

It is stitched together and powered by Trump, who will, one day, no longer be the president. You can’t run against him forever. Where do your precious moderates go when the Republicans nominate someone who doesn’t saying the quiet part so loudly?

Libby you might want to look at your “dad’s” shit poll numbers with POC again. Really it’s getting tired at this point. Your “dad” has no plans, no path to victory and sycophants like you are now realizing that his shit is over. Do us all a favor and go away. For real. You keep saying that it won’t be old and white…