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Not Every GOP Crackpot Is In Texas & Florida-- Here Are Some Loons In Pennsylvania & Michigan
The other day we looked at the misery the Pennsylvania Senate candidates are going through, but just focused on a pair of also-rans,...
Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20223 min read
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Beware: Wealthy Families Conservative Shill Betsy Johnson Is Running For Oregon Governor
Oregon is a pretty progressive state. The PVI is D+6, same as Delaware and New Jersey, a point under Illinois and Connecticut. Trump only...
Howie Klein
Jan 31, 20223 min read
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Seth Magaziner Drops Out Of The Rhode Island Gubernatorial Race
Blue America has only endorsed 3 gubernatorial candidates for 2022 so far, two you know-- Beto in Texas and Stacey Abrams in Georgia--...
Howie Klein
Jan 29, 20223 min read
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Can Bad Politicians Be Forced To Do Good Things?
Rhode Island is a strongly Democratic state-- but a shining example of why not any blue will do. It's been a hotbed of neoliberalism and...
Howie Klein
Jan 18, 20224 min read
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Will Trump Be More Of A Drag On Gubernatorial Candidates Than Biden Will Be?
How low can Biden's approval ratings sink. Did you ever imagine he'd be less popular than the orange fascist blob? His job approval is...
Howie Klein
Jan 13, 20225 min read
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You Say You Want A Revolution? Meet Matt Brown, Rhode Island Gubernatorial Candidate
This Is What Solidarity Means Matt Brown is running for governor of the smallest state in the Union, but he's running on the biggest...
Howie Klein
Jan 9, 20223 min read
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Never A Good Idea For Dems To Take Anti-Worker Stands-- Meet Maine's Lousy Governor Janet Mills
Looking for a politician to inspire voter turnout by blocking workers from unionizing? You know just where to go: Republican Party...
Howie Klein
Jan 8, 20224 min read
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Trump Doesn't Mind If Stacey Abrams Becomes Governor Of Georgia-- As Long As Brian Kemp Loses
This past January, Republican incumbent, Senator David Perdue of Georgia, was defeated in a runoff by Democrat Jon Ossoff 2,269,923...
Howie Klein
Dec 6, 20212 min read
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Fascism And Naziism Are Not The Same... & The GOP Is Dragging Us Straight Towards The Latter
Last night, I mentioned in passing that Trump wasn't invited to the Republican Governors Association conference in Phoenix last week....
Howie Klein
Nov 22, 202111 min read
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Trump's GOP Is An Ugly Dysfunctional Mess-- But Will Midterm Voters Bother To Notice?
You may have noticed that one of the more successful Republican governors, New Hampshire conservative Chris Sununu, is at odds with his...
Howie Klein
Nov 22, 202110 min read
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The DCCC & DSCC May Be Hopeless-- But Progressives Can Still Hold Off A 2022 Red Wave
In the decades we have been writing about him-- including after an in-person encounter-- there has never been a mention of Terry...
Howie Klein
Nov 13, 20216 min read
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Revenge Of The Morons-- The Kids Who Got All "F"s In High School Have Their Own Political Party
We don't follow Republican politics in Idaho that closely but a couple years ago we stumbled on a fringe politician straight out of...
Howie Klein
Nov 10, 20215 min read
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Remember #NeverTrumpers Are Not Our Friends. This One Wants Ron DeSantis As An Alternative!
America has never had as existential a threat to the country and Trump and his followers. If the 2016 and 2020 elections didn't get me to...
Howie Klein
Oct 31, 20219 min read
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Today, A Rabid Madwoman Announced She's Running For Governor Of Nevada
I think the last time we had anything to say about Brooklyn-born Nevada crackpot Michele Fiore was 5 years ago when we saw how the most...
Howie Klein
Oct 20, 20213 min read
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How Much Harm Will Trump Do To Republicans In The Midterms?
Normally, this is a story about how Trump will select nominees for a basically supine GOP and those nominees appeal to no one but the...
Howie Klein
Sep 28, 20217 min read
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Are There Enough Swing Voters In Texas To Replace Abbott With Beto?
Although he could change his mind and decide to not run, I'm hearing from very reliable sources that Beto has made up his mind to jump...
Howie Klein
Sep 21, 20214 min read
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Republicans Would Rather Die & Kill Their Families Than Do The Right Thing-- Especially In Texas
Texas Governor Greg Abbott's 2022 electoral strategy has been to deal with his primary opponents to his right and not worry about swing...
Howie Klein
Sep 19, 20212 min read
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The Good News: Trump/Elder Got Pulverized! The Bad News: Newsom
Like 5,887,471 other California voters (63.8%), I'm glad Trumpist crackpot Larry Elder is not going to be governor of my state. Unlike...
Howie Klein
Sep 16, 20218 min read
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Is It Fair To Ask Voters To Blame Republican Governors For Pandemic Explosions In Their States?
Or, as Greg Sargent put it in his Washington Post column today, The Zombie Trumpism Of GOP Governors Gives Democrats A Big Opening....
Howie Klein
Sep 7, 20216 min read
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Trump Wrecking GOP Hopes In Swing State Georgia
The Democrats have several big tasks in Georgia in 2022. The top two would be reelecting Raphael Warnock to the Senate and electing...
Howie Klein
Aug 19, 20213 min read
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