Biden time
For the first time in many years, I’ve waited until election day to vote. I actually left the house on Saturday morning fully intending to vote, but as I got closer to the polling place, I decide to wait for the South Carolina results. With Biden’s landslide, I’m glad...
NC: It’s a two-way race with three people in it.
Joe Biden won a crushing victory last night in South Carolina, proving that he has the legs to go the distance. He garnered 48% of the vote to Bernie Sanders' 20%. No other candidate reached the 15% mark needed to collect delegates. The race is now a two-person...
It’s time for Bloomberg to drop out
It’s time for Mike Bloomberg to drop out of the presidential race. He stated that his reason for joining the contest was to prevent a Sanders nomination that could lead to devastating losses for Democrats in November. Now, Bloomberg is more likely to cause that...
Bloomberg’s folly
Public Policy Polling released a survey of Democratic primary voters in North Carolina that still shows Joe Biden still the frontrunner in the state--barely. He leads Bernie Sander by three points who, in turn, leads Michael Bloomberg by three. It's clear that...
Trending blue
Yesterday, I wrote a piece describing what I called Bernie Sanders’ path to victory. I don’t mean that I believe he will win the state, but he does have a way forward that might work. It’s grounded in the youth vote. It’s that vote that will turn North Carolina blue...
Sanders’ path to victory in North Carolina
Anybody who’s read this blog knows that I’m no fan of Bernie Sanders. It’s not that I think his policies are that misguided. It’s that he’s spent his entire career calling himself a socialist when anybody over 50 grew up watching socialism fail miserably. My fear is...
The spoiler
If Bernie Sanders ends up the Democratic nominee, we will probably have Michael Bloomberg to thank. Bloomberg’s plan to buy his way into the Democratic primary and largely by-pass the vetting process is backfiring. While he’s surging, he’s not surging enough. Instead,...
Rhyming with 1972
In poll after poll, Bernie Sanders is surging, Joe Biden is tanking and Mike Bloomberg is filling the gap. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight predicts that Sanders will sweep up enough delegates by Super Tuesday to have an insurmountable lead. I’m trying to get my head...
Shifting the tax burden
Sales taxes are regressive. They take a larger percentage of money from low income families than they do higher income families. That’s why liberals in North Carolina howled when the Republicans running the legislature reduced the income tax rate on the highest...
I’ll stand with Amy
When the presidential campaign started last year, I wrote a piece about why I liked Amy Klobuchar. Since then I’ve written pieces about most of the other candidates and have seriously considered them all. After a lot of thought, I’m sticking with Amy. As I’ve said...
