Editorials & Other Articles

They can read polls as well as we can. They know what it looks like right now, and what will happen if they let nature take its course.

I have never heard of this political analyst blog (signal?), and disagree with the result of some poll that claims that our next presidential nominee will be Newsom, Harris, AOC or Buttigieg. My opinion is that it will be none of the above, though I wish Buttigieg could bypass the primary process and go right to the nomination. Newsom doesn’t (yet) come across as really wanting to fight for it, AOC seems smart enough to know she needs a bigger national base from which to start a run. Harris, as one of the 2020 “Franken Five,” is someone I would never support in a primary fight for the nomination, though I obviously would (and did) support her if she were to become our nominee.

There are others, including the powerful NOTMY (not on the map yet). Even two friends of mine are suddenly blog darlings, though I will first get excited when Charlie Cook starts listing them as possibles. While I found some to agree with in the article, there was some to disagree with as well, and there was always the irritating use of our side’s version of the cliché adjective (”libbrul” if you are a Republican, “corporate” if you are a Democrat).