Have you already picked your 2020 White House candidate? Plan to run for a delegate spot? You’ll be heading to Wisconsin. Incredibly, this will be the first time the Democrats have chosen a midwest convention host city that isn’t Chicago…
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I want to flag something for you – which is potentially very good news – before another day’s news cycle gets eaten by the horror movie parody that is the Donald Trump for President campaign. Do you know the name…
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I’m going to post this as the DNCC sent it to press, which will include all their language to describe what will roll out at the DNC July 25-28 at the Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia. Convention Will Showcase A Diverse,…
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The 187-member Democratic Platform Committee completed two long contentious days of work in the early morning hours today, after a long Saturday that got started late, frequently involved shouting, and went late. “Delegates on both sides noting it’s the first…
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A list came out today of members of the DNC’s platform committee. Usual procedure is that the DNC Chair – Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz – would select the 15 people who begin to develop the guiding positions of the national…
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The delegate “math” is often mentioned in the media but seldom clearly explained. So it seemed time to check it out. Here is the math pertinent for the Democratic party’s first delegate convention vote. If one candidate wins a majority…
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One word. We can sum up the message conveniently now. In just one word. Thanks to former President Bill Clinton. He gave us not only a roadmap on how to win this election in a 45 minute “clinic”. He gave it to us as a monumental message, wrapped in a huge bow. “Arithmetic.”
That one word, warms my heart as an engineer. When the talking gets too loud and shouty, when it seems that all the world makes no sense, when there are “your facts” and “my facts” and false equivalency, and opinion and spin, there is still one word that slices through that Gordion knot like a hot knife through butter. A word few can argue with. It doesn’t know passion, or artifice, or how to lie. Arithmetic.