Excellent refresher. It is very good to have one's memory not only refreshed and extended, but repaired. Not long ago I discovered that I had swallowed some Republican bunkum about JFK's defeat of Nixon.
Perez Now Says He Didn’t Want Statewide Recanvass Less than 10 hours after announcing that he was “calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass,” Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said he had actually been calling only for isolated recanvassing of areas where irregularities had been reported in the caucus results, the New York Times reports.
Will Trump’s Operatives Now Biden Bernie? [Click] “If Sander’s momentum towards the nomination grows this political targeting will happen as surely as night follows day. So it’s important to start preparing for it now.” I expect Bernie has foreseen the attack. ==================== From The Guardian:
From politicalwire.com: Biden Shakes Up Campaign Leadership
Classical decision of an incompetent manager: when in doubt, reorganize. It looks like you are doing something, without the trouble of actually doing anything.
From a couple of different sources: Thirty-one of Iowa’s 99 counties voted Obama, Obama, Trump in successive general elections. In the 2016 caucuses HRC won 16 of those counties, and Bernie won 15. Biden targeted those counties this year, expecting to demonstrate his “electability.” Buttigieg won 21, Bernie won 7, Klobuchar won 2, and Biden got ONE. Sure sounds like they wanted someone other than Joe.
I see that not only is the 8th debate tonight, but it starts NOW. I don't care to watch it, but anticipate that there should be some interesting things. I hope, as a matter of decency, that the other candidates don't give Biden a rough time.
I just finished reading the debate liveblog at talkingpointsmemo.com. Sounds like it was a pretty decent debate. One or more of the interviewers was a bit of a jerk, trying to get the candidates into fights; they pretty much ignored Warren. Steyer and Yang didn't have much to say, I gather. Buttigieg demonstrated his aggressiveness once or twice, and took a hit from Klobuchar over changing his tune on Medicare For All.
I really should continue with the sketch for my next printing class project--a four-color reduction woodcut. [Reduction woodcut: ink and print first color, then cut away parts of the block with that color; then ink and print the second color and cut away the parts of the block with that color, and so forth.] It is supposed to be something like a Tarot card, so after dismissing a couple of ideas, I decided to make a taro [Click] card in roughly the format of a Tarot card.
Dispelling the myth of centrist electability
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Excellent refresher. It is very good to have one's memory not only refreshed and extended, but repaired. Not long ago I discovered that I had swallowed some Republican bunkum about JFK's defeat of Nixon.
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ReplyDeletePerez Now Says He Didn’t Want Statewide Recanvass
Less than 10 hours after announcing that he was “calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass,” Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said he had actually been calling only for isolated recanvassing of areas where irregularities had been reported in the caucus results, the New York Times reports.
Biden Goes Missing In New Hampshire
Bloomberg Meets with Affluent Donors [Click] Interesting; it’s worth reading.
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From talkingpointsmemo.com:
Will Trump’s Operatives Now Biden Bernie? [Click] “If Sander’s momentum towards the nomination grows this political targeting will happen as surely as night follows day. So it’s important to start preparing for it now.” I expect Bernie has foreseen the attack.
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From The Guardian:
Uber changing app to avoid reach of California's new gig workers law [Click] They hope.
From politicalwire.com: Biden Shakes Up Campaign Leadership
ReplyDeleteClassical decision of an incompetent manager: when in doubt, reorganize. It looks like you are doing something, without the trouble of actually doing anything.
From a couple of different sources:
ReplyDeleteThirty-one of Iowa’s 99 counties voted Obama, Obama, Trump in successive general elections. In the 2016 caucuses HRC won 16 of those counties, and Bernie won 15. Biden targeted those counties this year, expecting to demonstrate his “electability.” Buttigieg won 21, Bernie won 7, Klobuchar won 2, and Biden got ONE. Sure sounds like they wanted someone other than Joe.
I see that not only is the 8th debate tonight, but it starts NOW. I don't care to watch it, but anticipate that there should be some interesting things. I hope, as a matter of decency, that the other candidates don't give Biden a rough time.
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ReplyDeleteThe Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America [Click] “In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry.”
Is Bloomberg on the debate? I don't see him. The main reason I'm watching the debate is that I wanted to see if he as clueless as he seems.
ReplyDeleteOK, no Bloomberg. Ineresting in a way but [sigh] I have things to do. So I turned it off at the break.
DeleteSo I'm not the only one who thinks Bloomberg is seriously out of touch; birds of a feather flock together, I suppose.
DeleteI just finished reading the debate liveblog at talkingpointsmemo.com. Sounds like it was a pretty decent debate. One or more of the interviewers was a bit of a jerk, trying to get the candidates into fights; they pretty much ignored Warren. Steyer and Yang didn't have much to say, I gather. Buttigieg demonstrated his aggressiveness once or twice, and took a hit from Klobuchar over changing his tune on Medicare For All.
ReplyDeleteI really should continue with the sketch for my next printing class project--a four-color reduction woodcut. [Reduction woodcut: ink and print first color, then cut away parts of the block with that color; then ink and print the second color and cut away the parts of the block with that color, and so forth.] It is supposed to be something like a Tarot card, so after dismissing a couple of ideas, I decided to make a taro [Click] card in roughly the format of a Tarot card.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it is about time to watch the movie Dave again. Might be.
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