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Mary Jo MeloneMay 26, 2016

Like Donald Trump’s narcissism, the misogyny driving the vitriol aimed at Hillary Clinton is bottomless. The best that can be said of the legions of her critics is that some, women among them, don’t know history. Worse yet, few who are puzzled by the vitriol directed at Clinton bother to see her through the lens […]

Mitch PerryMay 25, 2016

Florida Democratic Party Chair Allison Tant announced Wednesday that New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will speak at the party’s 2016 Leadership Blue Gala on June 18 in Hollywood. “As the largest swing state in the nation, Florida will play a determining role in stopping Donald Trump and returning the Senate to Democratic hands,” Booker said in a statement. “While we know the work ahead won’t be […]

Phil AmmannMay 25, 2016

Congressional Democrats are beginning to broach the subject of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepping down as chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ahead of the party’s convention in July. The Hill is reporting that several Democrats backing likely presidential nominee Hillary Clinton are concerned the South Florida congresswoman is too divisive a figure, […]

Diane RobertsMay 25, 2016

The Bern? Duly felt. Duly appreciated. Sen. Sanders has put inequality where it belongs, in the center of the American conversation. He has energized hundreds of thousands of young people who’ve never felt a part of the political process and gotten America to revisit such “socialist” ideals as universal health care, universal education, and healthy […]

Tom JacksonMay 24, 2016

The atmosphere crackled like the approach of a late-afternoon thunderstorm with the release over the weekend of polls showing the current state of the presidential race. Which is appropriate, because so far there has been lots of menacing rumbling, if not a great deal of light. And, like any storm on the horizon, this one […]

Melissa RossMay 24, 2016

This wild 2016 campaign season, we’ve heard a lot about delegates. Pledged delegates. Superdelegates. “Unbound” delegates. Delegate math. Delegate count. The delegate tracker! The nation (er, actually just political junkies in this great land of ours) is tracking delegates the way people living in prefab housing in Oklahoma stay glued to the local news when […]

Mitch PerryMay 24, 2016

Citing reports about Donald Trump rooting for the housing market to collapse a decade ago, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn called such sentiments “shameful” and “disqualifying” during a short conference call organized by the Hillary Clinton campaign on Tuesday. “I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure how you make America great again by rooting for it to fail so that you […]

Mitch PerryMay 24, 2016

Last night in Santa Monica, Bernie Sanders called Hillary Clinton‘s decision not to debate him in California “insulting” to the voters in the Golden State. “A number of months ago our campaign and her campaign reached an agreement on a number of debates, including one here in California,” Sanders told the crowd, according to a […]

Darryl PaulsonMay 23, 2016

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The opposition to Donald Trump has been constant from the start of the 2016 presidential campaign. However, it has been unfocused and essentially leaderless. Many Trump opponents believed he would not enter the race. When he entered, they believed he had no chance of winning. Now that Trump has all but won the nomination, they […]

Associated PressMay 23, 2016

For Donald Trump to win the White House in November, he’ll need the votes of women like Elizabeth Andrus. Yet Andrus, a registered Republican from Delaware, Ohio, sees “buffoonery” in the presumptive Republican nominee and says “I am not on the Trump train.” With all the trouble in the world, she went on, “you just […]

Tag: Hillary Clinton

Mary Jo Melone: Hillary Clinton, without apology

Cory Booker to headline Florida Dems Leadership Blue Gala in Hollywood in June

Democrats discuss possibility of dropping Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair

Diane Roberts: Bernie Sanders, stop trashing Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party

Tom Jackson: GOP won’t like what follows the summer of Donald Trump

What goes into being a convention delegate? For starters, some travel expenses

Bob Buckhorn blasts Donald Trump’s decade-old comments on exploiting the housing market collapse

Mitch Perry Report for 5.24.16 — Hillary nixes a last Dem debate in California

Darryl Paulson: It’s now or never for #NeverTrump

In swing state suburbs, white women are skeptical of Donald Trump