Flinging Poo at the SOTU
When I was a college sophomore in Washington, DC I lived a short walk from the National Zoo. On an afternoon when I didn’t have a class (or did) I would take a book, sit on a bench, not read the book,...
View ArticleWhat Congressional Representation Tells Us About DEI and Politics
I think race is almost always the most important issue in a U.S. presidential election. The challenge for the party more committed to the needs and interests of minority groups is to get those voters...
View ArticleThe Six Stages of Political Grief
The Six Stages of Political GriefDenial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance and …….Element removedJim HannonNov 23, 202465ShareI have felt a lot of emotions since the election. It has taken me a...
View ArticleElection Night Victory Viewing, Part 1
Senate and east coast house racesJim HannonNov 03, 2024I’m looking forward to tomorrow night. I am increasingly confident that Harris will win, for reasons I laid out in my last post, “Why Harris...
View ArticleWhy Harris Wins: Turnout, Sanity, GOP Racism, Women
Turnout 2024“It’s all about turnout” is a joke meme among campaign veterans. Yeah, duh, you’ve got to get your people out to vote but most elections are not so close that 63% participation by likely...
View ArticleRepublican Rape Culture: Daughters Have No Autonomy When Daddies Want to...
From Maggie Astor’s reporting in the New York Times (10/24) on Tucker Carlson’s introduction of Trump at a rally in Duluth, GA on Wednesday night:If you allow your hormone-addled 15 year old daughter...
View ArticleCanvassing Report from Wilkes-Barre, PA
I spent last weekend canvassing for Kamala Harris in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a city situated beautifully in the Wyoming Valley and Pocono Mountains.The Harris campaign has 50 coordinated offices in...
View ArticleVirgin, Momala, Whore
Semiotics: the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.As a talking head on PBS’s coverage of the DNC, never Trump Republican David Brooks of the NYT opined that the Democrats were...
View ArticleCelebration Poem
For all who have resisted the past four yearsthe marchersdoor knockerspost cardersphone talkersFor the candidates who gave it all of their time in GeorgiaArizonaor on Philly’s Main LineIn memory of...
View ArticleHow Dems Can Regain the House and Senate in 2018
How Democrats Can Retake the House and SenateThe 2018 mid-term elections could and should be a wave election for Democrats. Democrats lead the generic congressional polls by an average of 13%, an...
View ArticleTrump: Just Another Medicine Show/Ready To Be Exposed
As the American frontier expanded there were many communities that had no real health care. In these rural areas folk remedies, most of limited effect, were the only treatments. Indian medicine...
View ArticleTaking Care of Ourselves and Each Other
Brothers and sisters: tonight is a devastating event that will leave many of us grief-stricken, angry, frightened, confused, and feeling like we have entered an alternate universe. Mother Jones once...
View ArticleNotes from Kenya on Clinton v. Trump
I’ve been in Kenya for three weeks, traveling from Nairobi to Naivasha, a market town an hour west of Nairobi and then down to the coast to Mombasa and Kilifi, a beach town an hour north of Mombasa....
View ArticleDon't tell me I'm not a progressive because I voted for Hillary
I am really tired of Bernie supporters acting as if they are the only true progressives. It is so arrogant that I can’t justify it even though I know they are butthurt about being on the losing side...
View ArticleWhy I Have Switched from Bernie to Hillary
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the presidential race. As a democratic socialist it seemed obvious to me that I would support Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race. I have followed his...
View ArticleA Poem for Smug Victors Who Can't Help But Overreach
Fulvia, wife of Antony, Considers The Skull of CiceroO senex! O greatness descended from so little!O orator, give us a speech. Please praise the republic.How hungry your ears must be to hear the...
View ArticleIt's the Base, Stupid!
It’s the base, stupid.Every election is now a base election. It really is quite simple. In the U.S. voter turnout is low and variable (from very low to very, very low). In mid-term elections...
View ArticleGive Them Something to Vote for
It's a devastating night for Democrats. We can talk about how great 2016 is going to be but that's hope. Tonight is reality and it is a serious slap in the face.Yes, six years into an administration...
View ArticleMA-10 handed to Dems.
Teabaggers didn't limit their favors tonight to the Delaware and New Hampshire senate races (although they were yummy and thank you very much). In an open House seat rated as a toss-up by many...
View ArticleCapuano--the progressive choice, not Martha Coakley!
Mike Capuano is the progressive candidate in the special election to replace Ted Kennedy in the senate and he deserves our support. There are a lot of good things to say about Capuano but it is also...
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