Imagine that you are applying for a job that doesn’t start for nearly 700 days and during that time you can’t do anything to prepare yourself mentally, psychologically and physically for the challenges.
Category: Candidates
Let’s not demonize Howard Schultz, rather help him do no damage
So, if Howard Schultz wants to run as an independent in 2020, I will beg to differ with other progressives and say that it’s okay, but with a major caveat.
Kamala, don’t forget why Hillary lost
Harris was speaking to an audience stacked in her favor. What was missing was representation of the voters that Hillary Clinton seemed to forget in the 2016 presidential election. The white blue-collar Reagan Democrats who were Donald Trump’s margin of victory in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Is this the latest disqualifier to run for president – no hardship story to tell?
Is this what it’s come to? Someone running for office must have a background story that is so gripping that we think that he or she came out of a Dickens novel. If the candidate can’t wow the socks off voters with how compelling his or her “womb-to-candidacy” story is, she might as well forget about running.
Courage won the midterm elections
What were the deciding factors in the 2018 midterm elections in the U.S.? Was it youth and diversity? Or status quo, ignorance, and fear?
Ann Wagner has support of Sex Trafficking Advocate?
So, let me get this straight. Ann is including an endorsement from a woman who is a sex trafficking advocate. If my understanding of English serves me correctly, this means that Jennifer advocates sex trafficking. Does it mean that Jennifer is actually running an operation; selling young women and men into sexual servitude? Jennifer seems far too nice for that, but this is what Ann implies that she does.
Trying to cut through the B.S. in Missouri’s U.S. Senate Race
Let me suggest ways in which at least one candidate, McCaskill could make her campaign more honest, spend far less money, and do the voters a real service. Here are some proposed talking points for Claire to say:
Jason Kander’s PTSD, and what it says about America
In a remarkable act of self-awareness, courage and public accountability, rising Democratic star Jason Kander, 37, has published a letter revealing his personal struggle
The Perils of Labels
I was once riding down an elevator and struck up a conversation. The gentleman told me that he was a ‘labeling specialist.’ I was
Watching the news: why do we have warnings about prescription ads, but not about political ads
We know that viewership of network news has declined precipitously in recent years, and the intended audience is primarily those who are currently or