That’s exactly how I feel! He’s stayed in this long, so he might as well wait through the last primary. However, I am MUCH more supportive of this plan now that he has turned his attacks on Trump and isn’t pushing the whole “rigged system” belief. He needs some time to start bringing his supporters back to reality,…

Yeah, the consensus in neuroscience is that the brain is not fully adult until around 25. I like to bring this up to my son, reminding him that his dad and I were 24 when we had him (unplanned, of course).

Thanks for saying this! I surprised myself last night by getting teary at the news. I can’t even fully explain it. It’s just something monumental, and at the same time, deeply personal.

That’s wonderful! I’ve been doing GOTV calls for Hillary in CA, and I spoke to a 96-year-old woman the other day. She was SO excited to vote for Hillary. I will think of her and your mom, as well as my own foremothers passed, when I vote for Hillary this fall.

Holy unhinged ramblings, Batman!! Of course, someone like that will never accept that this election wasn’t “stolen” from them. I don’t know what to do with this kind of thought process. My hope is that after the primaries, they’ll cool down a little and start thinking about fall options more reasonably. I remember…

Even worse: The Sanders campaign could not get enough volunteers in Puerto Rico to serve as poll watchers, so they cut the number of polling places drastically - and at Sanders’s request. Now, of course, the long lines caused by their lack of organization will be cited as evidence of “vote suppression” or “rigging.”…

My kid, who goes to school in an *extremely* liberal school district, was not allowed to wear his Obama shirt to school per the dress code. And this is an area that voted over 80% for Obama, both times.

I was actually thinking that about this kid, too. I was super political for a little kid, and at 9 I was also super-conservative, because that’s what surrounded me. By middle school, I’d started obsessively watching C-SPAN, developed a pre-teen crush on Joe Biden, and become increasingly liberal. By high school I was…

That’s terrible. I imagine that would be really traumatic at any age, but especially so young.

I looked at it and apparently the guy gave $5400 total. I thought you could give &2700 each for the primary and the general, so I don’t know if the Sanders campaign will have to give the $2700 “general campaign” money back, or if they've changed the rules so that the ceiling is now effectively $5400. I'm confused.

I would be more convinced if you didn’t have people like the $5000 guy, donating nearly twice the legal limit. Or the numerous (illegal) foreign donations. Or the mysterious, still-unaccounted-for $10 million donation.

I think extended voting and non-traditional balloting have proven to have the most impact on turnout. States with early voting - especially if it includes weekends - have higher turnout. States that do some or all of their balloting by mail have higher turnout.

This describes my approach to voting so well. Like, nobody who wants the job is ever going to be a perfect person. But I don’t know many, if any, perfect people anyway. I want to vote for the smartest, most capable person who isn’t going to ruin everything and might make the world marginally better - and who can…

I’ve been involved in gun control efforts since the Million Mom March, and I have no problem with the orange. The idea came from kids who wanted to do something about violence, and they picked orange because it’s the colors hunters wear so they won’t get shot. Basically, wearing orange = please don’t shoot me.

And Trump makes Bush look like an intellectual and moral giant. I didn’t think it possible to ever see a worse candidate than Bush, but wow Trump turns everything wrong with him up to 11.

Yes, when she’s not trying to be likeable, she’s great. I have read many profiles of her that say that she’s funny, charming, and wonderful in person. But she prefers to talk to small groups, and hates addressing crowds. One of the best profiles I read was from Obama’s former speechwriter Jon Favreau, who basically…

There is a form on the Clinton website where you can contact them, and “idea for the campaign” is an option. I've used it several times. :-)

Exactly this. Obama was brilliant and poised, and he used a teleprompter. Sarah Palin’s teleprompter broke during her convention speech, and she gave her first crazy ass ramblefest - which the GOP crowd loved. So they started this whole thing about how she was so great because she could speak off-the-cuff, unlike that…

I still love Samantha Bee’s “Casino Mussolini” nickname for him.

I agree with everything you’ve said, and the same worries keep me up nights. I do think that Hillary has one major advantage over Trump’s Republican opponents, which is that she can flat out call him on his crazy talk. None of Trump’s primary opponents could say, “That idea is insane” because they basically held the…