On Primary Candidacies
Thinking about what is predictive as well as the usefulness of historical case studies.
Thinking about what is predictive as well as the usefulness of historical case studies.
Jimmy Carter’s Vice President and the 1984 Democratic nominee has died at 93.
Yesterday showed that Biden understands the “dignified” part of politics.
The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.
It’s time to start speculating about a brokered convention again,even though it probably isn’t going to happen.
Former President Obama has been largely quiet about the race for the Democratic nomination, but that may not last.
Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.
Nine months after what seemed like the end of his political career, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has mounted a comeback,
History shows us that candidates who enter the race for President late rarely do well, and rarely manage to win.
Virginia voters don’t like Donald Trump, or Republicans in general, very much right now, and that could translate into Democrats taking control of the state legislature for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Fifty years ago today, we were reminded of what humanity can accomplish if we put our minds to it. It seems like we’ve forgotten that over the past half-century.
A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?
Hours before departing the United States for a pomp and circumstance filled State Visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump sticks his foot in his mouth.
Pete Buttigieg is getting a lot of attention for a relatively unknown candidate. but it’s unclear if it can last.
For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.
For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.
Michael Cohen pulled back the curtain and revealed much about the true nature of Donald Trump yesterday. It’s not a pretty picture.
Another Friday, another political mess for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
All three of the elected state officials in Virginia are under some kind of cloud, and nobody seems to know what’s going to happen next.
Fifty years ago tonight, one of the most iconic photos in history was taken.
Cory Booker’s interest in running for President has been an open secret for some time, now he’s being far less coy about it.
Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro is preparing a run for the White House in 2020.
Democrats have pulled the trigger and essentially eliminated the power of superdelegates except in the unlikely event that a nominating convention goes to a second ballot.
Sad news about a Senate stalwart who has been fighting an aggressive form of cancer for more than a year.
Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.
The Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued indictments against twelve Russian intelligence officials for election-related hacking, and in the process has shown most of the arguments made by the President and his surrogates regarding the Russia investigation are nonsense.
The Democratic National Committee is one step closer to adopting a rule change that would make superdelegates largely irrelevant to the party’s nomination process.
Democrats are on the verge of reducing the power of superdelegates to the point where they will essentially become meaningless in the nomination process.
Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are objecting to the proposed changes in the role of superdelegates in the party’s nomination process.
As he has in the past, Bernie Sanders will seek the Democratic nomination for Senate in Vermont but won’t accept the nomination if he wins.
Even with yesterday’s indictments, President Trump still won’t acknowledge reality even though it’s staring him in the face.
There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.
The widow of Sgt. La David Johnson spoke out about the death of her husband and the controversy over the phone call she received from President Trump. And Trump proceeded to attack her and call her a liar.
Now Donald Trump is using the death of American soldiers to tell lies about his predecessor.
The problem with the Trump White House is the man who sits behind the Resolute Desk.
Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.
Donald Trump isn’t going to change, and that’s bad news for all of us.
A new head for the DNC at a time when the Democratic Party finds itself reeling and eager to take on Donald Trump.
Republicans sure have changed their mind about Vladimir Putin.
In what seems like a replay of the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, some top Democratic Party leadership positions may be in jeopardy.