by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020 To a certain kind of Democratic Party establishmentarian, Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because she was not “likable” enough – a sentiment that may or may not be thinly veiled code for saying that she’s a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 4, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
A good article presenting the reasoning on why we should NOT run Biden against Trump. Stop saying Biden is the ‘most electable’. Trump will run rings round him | Nathan Robinson Supporters of Joe Biden are unlikely to be persuaded by most of the common...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 2, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
Opinion | Wake up, Republicans. Your party stands for all the wrong things now. Stuart Stevens is a writer and GOP political consultant who is working with a political action committee that backs Bill Weld for president. Here’s a question: Does anybody have any...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 31, 2019 | • Politics, The 2016 Presidential Race, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
The Non-Voters Who Decided The Election: Trump Won Because Of Lower Democratic Turnout An astonishing spectacle of the election aftermath is the false account of why Trump won. The accepted wisdom is that Trump succeeded in awakening a popular movement of anger and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 31, 2019 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
WTF! NO! Are Joe Biden and the other Republican candidates who talk about working with Republicans on the other side of the isle crazy? Who? This crop of Republicans? The Trumplicans? How the F is that a good idea? I have nothing against working with Republicans some...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 28, 2019 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race
My support for Bernie Sander is both ideologically based (I think he has the best vision and ideas about the direction this country needs to go) and strategic in that I think he is the inspiring leader we need both to get out the base and build up a supply of new...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 26, 2019 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
‘People Should Take Him Very Seriously’: Sanders Polling Surge Reportedly Forcing Democratic Establishment to Admit He Can Win Sen. Bernie Sanders’ recent surge in national and early-state polls, enthusiastic progressive base, and resilience in the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 24, 2019 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
“We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country’s interest and concern, the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 22, 2019 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
From the article— “Biden has no explanation for why he is suitable to lead a party whose base is rapidly moving leftward, given his history on the center-right of the party. Why should a guy who voted for the Iraq War, financial deregulation, and bankruptcy reform;...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 15, 2019 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist. John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist. Obama won in 2008 posturing as a progressive. (But then lost both houses of Congress after being exposed as a centrist) Running as a centrist in 2016 wasn’t good enough to beat the worst...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 10, 2019 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race
Beating Trump Is Not Enough: The Real Change Democrats Must Pursue If we have another Obama-type presidency, without real change, we will eventually get Trumpism without Trump.. I have always believed “politics is the art of the possible.” This was well...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 4, 2019 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race
If Debate Skills Mattered, Kamala Harris Wouldn’t Be the One Dropping Out Christine Pelosi, who knows a thing or two about politics, had a sound take on Kamala Harris’s decision to suspend her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential...
