1. I am telling you this because you are asking people to tell you why they like her and insisting it must be policy differences, but if policy isn’t the only factor then there are other reasons to choose the candidate. Thus, by continuously saying you want them to say what policies they support, it starts to sound…

1. Policy is not the sum total of what makes a candidate. This is a year where I’m weighing actual policy proposals a little differently, because it is straight up impossible to reclaim the House (Dems need 24 seats, only 12 are in districts where they are considered contested). Because of this dynamic, I’m weighing…

We only need to win back the Senate for confirmation hearings. That’s entirely doable. It’s the House that is mathematically impossible to win back at present.

I’ve seen a lot of commentators who have been targets because they are calling out some of the flaws in what someone upthread referred to as Bernie’s “no war but the class war” ideology. The attacks that are then made on those commentators ends up reinforcing that by showing that a number of his vocal supporters fall…

I think that one of the things that has been keeping me from fully getting on board with Bernie is the sneaking suspicion that even though he says good things with regard to a lot of causes that are deemed “social issues” that he sees those as secondary to his comfort zone issues and doesn’t quite get how they…

I was thinking about this in regards to the ACA. People who are against the ACA because it didn’t go far enough talk about it being a gift to the insurance companies. And I’m like. Yes. Duh. That is probably the only reason it got through. By treating them as stakeholders rather than something to be destroyed, I’d…

Cool! More info on the distinction fro what looks like a DC area professional group. It’s super important to check out the credentials of any “nutritionist” you plan to see/take advice from/read their book/etc. Some are dietitians who just use the term nutritionist because it’s what people know and others are…

I agree with you guys on your political discussion but am piping up to say that the weird shit those nutritionists are doing is “applied kinesiology,” not to be confused with actual kinesiology. It’s basically total nonsense. Totally unrelated fun fact: apparently in most areas “nutritionist” is not a protected term,…

I’m not going to die on a hill to defend the HRC (it has some real problems), but framing PP as part of the establishment that he is fighting might be a breaking point for me. I don’t care if he thinks it’s unfair that they endorsed so early or how many connections he feels there are between these organizations and…

I guess this lady can go hang out with the lady that wrote the Christian themed inspirational romance set in a concentration camp that somehow also got published a few months back (if you missed that, get ready to be deeply horrified).

They’ll also almost certainly be younger and either from a swing state or a state they are trying to put in play (or at least have strong connections to such a state).

Probably not. Generally, the best plan for picking a VP is someone who balances you in some way and/or helps pick up an additional demographic. She’d almost certainly pick someone who is a young up and comer in the party, since she’s a bit older (much the way the young and comparatively inexperienced Obama picked the…

This is an area where the squabbling between the Sanders campaign and the DNC concerns me. And to be clear, while the DNC needs to get its shit together, I do fault Sanders to a point in this. He has a real history of alienating the Democratic Caucus. If he wants the DNC to be nice to him, he has to prove that he can…

I think the biggest thing this election has been trying to not get into bubbles. I live in a super liberal area so a lot of my friends here are strong Bernie supporters and I feel like I have to keep being the asshole whose like “yeah but...” because I’m obsessive about politics.

There’s a couple of things you’ve got wrong here.

He is doing extremely well with the progressive vote, but there are a few factors working against him. [Note: this came out a bit rambling, but I was trying to collect some of the potential factors that could work against Bernie when voters are deciding.]

I’d imagine she still likes the idea of it but also recognizes the political reality that we just cannot possibly expect to get it through for at the very least another four years (which assumes we can undo some gerrymandering that gives the GOP a deathgrip on the house in the next redistricting).

I’d put money on Julian Castro.

This is an extremely important point. (Full disclosure here before people yell at me: I’m on team whoever the Dems nominate. They can nominate a sandwich and Team Sandwich 2016 will be preferable to the GOP side) Hillary has been the focus of negative ad buys already and is a regular target of GOP talking points. From…

There’s been additional reporting (see below) that... looks not great. I don’t think Bernie was involved, but I think he’s going to need to clean house in his data department. Even if they accidentally had access, then they shouldn’t be running multiple searches on the Clinton data, which is what is shown on the logs…