Ordinary World 4Mar19
Ordinary World 4Mar19
[OW1] The Selma anniversary showcases Democratic figures from Clinton to Booker to Sanders:
[OW2] The top 15 Democratic presidential candidates of 2020, ranked
[OW3] Do you know the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates?
[OW4] 2020 Democrats Head To Wisconsin Early, Looking To Reverse 2016 Stumble
[OW5] Dead-End Bills Aimed at 2020 Elections Become Focus in Congress
[OW6] Sanders sends warning to 2020 rivals with rollicking weekend rallies
[OW7] John Hickenlooper 2020: Former Colorado governor enters crowded Democratic presidential field
[OW8] Americans’ mixed message for 2020 presidential candidates: Keep your socialist hands off our government programs
[OW9] Biden’s Hamlet act ripples across 2020 field
[OW10] Bill Clinton has 2020 advice, but few candidates seeking it
OW7: I like Hickenlooper but I wish he would run for the Senate against Gardner instead. Frankly, we (Dems) would be in a stronger position with both houses of Congress even if Trump wins than a Dem in the Whitehouse and a red Senate.Report
And Bullock in Montana.Report
Somehow, “junior Democratic Senator from a western state” would have to be made a more attractive position than it is currently. Consider how it looks if you’ve been governor: from the top of an executive ladder where you set policy and made the appointments to the bottom of a legislative ladder where you might not chair even a subcommittee; 25-30 transcontinental round-trip flights each year; unless you’re independently wealthy, almost certainly crappier living quarters than you’re accustomed to. If you’re looking at it as a launching pad to be Governor or President and you’re relatively young, fine. Hick’s two years older than I am and has already done the governor thing. If I were to guess, this is angling for head of Interior (almost always given to someone from the West), or Energy.Report
When did we start talking about Mitt Romney? LOL
Are there other good Dem prospects in CO to challenge Gardner?Report
Ed Perlmutter, 7-time US Representative from the 7th Congressional District, who would probably be governor now except Polis and his essentially unlimited ability to self-fund entered the race. Crisanta Duran. Cary Kennedy. Andrew Romanoff.Report
and Biden will probably announce his candidacy after O Rourke. It’s becoming dull and its only 2019.Report
Ow10-
“longtime”, ha. This definitely makes me think this was a Brock trial balloon. Otoh,
Good grief, 4 reporters (plus the byline reporter)? What a waste of journalistic resources. (well, each could probably knock out their portion in a hour – a phone call to their respective campaign contact, a quick interview for a pull quote, a paragraph writeup and then send to the editor. )Report
Okay! This is as good a place as any.
The Klobuchar thing.
There *IS* a sexist double standard where a guy does something jerky and people say “he’s acting like a boss!” and a gal does something like a boss and people say “she’s acting really jerky!”
That said, acknowledging the double-standard does not mean “therefore, it’s okay for women to be jerky bosses!”
A handful of the behaviors described by various stories like throwing binders (no information as to whether they were full of women) are kinda nuts and would be bad even if a guy did it. The stories about calling up people who offer staffers jobs and then undercutting the to-be-former staffers? That’s downright PSYCHOTIC. I mean, there is *NOBODY* who would defend that crap if a guy did it.
The fact that there are things that can be defended for a guy doing but not a woman doing (and thus demonstrating the existence of a double standard) does not mean that it’s okay to call up the people who hire your staffers and scuttle the hiring.
That said, you don’t need to be a good person to be a good boss and you don’t need to be a good boss to be a good president.
But the Klobuchar stories are creepy as hell and it’s too dang bad because she strikes me as being in the ballpark of “most electable”. Or she would have.Report
Probably a good place to note the current story from Jane Mayer about how Fox is operating as a “servile propaganda outlet”.
Although this seems to be blowing up the political blogs, what I find depressing is how little new information this adds.
Hasnt this been common knowledge all along, with the only question being who was leading whom?Report
Where I was with it. We kind of knew they would, right? Report
Hillary Clinton has *OFFICIALLY* announced that she will not be running in 2020.
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“Wow i’m so surprised” I said lying through my teeth. In other news sun rises, water wet.Report
BUT WAIT!!!
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