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Howie Klein
2 days ago4 min read
2024 House Races Set Up 2026— Some Tough Times Ahead For Democrats Who Won In Trump Districts
Although Who Knows What Will Happen Between Now And Then This past cycle, there were only 3 congressional districts that Harris won and...
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Howie Klein
Dec 5, 20246 min read
DelBene Is Certainly Not Going To Fix The DCCC— Will Jeffries Appoint Someone Who Even Wants To?
It Starts With Strong Recruiting, Not With Corrupt Blue Dogs This cycle, the DCCC re-recruited two of its worst 2022 candidates,...
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Howie Klein
Nov 29, 20243 min read
The Last Uncalled Race— Who You Rooting For? The Corrupt Blue Dog Or The Faux-Moderate Republican?
Both CA-13 Candidates Are Putrid CA-13 came into existence after the 2020 census in time for the 2022 midterms. There was no incumbent in...
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Howie Klein
Nov 20, 20243 min read
The Margin In The House Is Going To Be Very Tight— Tight Enough To Prevent MAGA Mike From Governing
Dysfunctional Congress + Fascist White House Isn't Good As of today, 218 Republican and 212 Democrats have been elected to the House with...
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Howie Klein
Nov 14, 20244 min read
Would The Democrats Control The House Now If The DCCC Didn’t Keep Supporting Corrupt Conservatives?
This year, the DCCC had the worst roster of candidates I’ve ever seen. Their red-to-blue program was absolutely putrid— and most of them...
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Howie Klein
Nov 12, 20245 min read
My Guess: The Final House Tally Will Be A Dysfunctional 222-213... Until Stefanik And Waltz Leave
The Associated Press' Election Calls Are No Longer The Gold Standard AP hasn’t officially called some races yet where they should have....
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Howie Klein
Oct 22, 202414 min read
With The New Dem-Run DCCC Calling The Shots It's Miraculous That There Are ANY Democrats In Congress
Anyone Who Imagined DeBene Would Be Better Than Maloney Must've Been High For most Democrats in Congress— not all— the election is either...
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Howie Klein
Sep 26, 20246 min read
Will The Best Republican Ever Be Better Than The Worst Democrat? That Was Once A Common Occurrence
Not In These Hyper-Polarized Times When I was growing up, Republican senators like Jacob Javits (NY), Mark Hatfield (OR), Charlies...
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Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20243 min read
Standing Between The DCCC & A Blue Wave: Grotesquely Bad Candidate Quality In New York & California
The DCCC Has One Thing Going For It: Republicans Are Worse In New York State, 2020 saw Biden beat Trump 60.9% to 37.7%— not as good as...
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Howie Klein
Aug 15, 20245 min read
Flipping The House Red To Blue— A Focus On California And Wisconsin. Is It Even Worth The Effort?
Blue Wave Headed This Way? Yesterday, James Rainey reported something that isn’t exactly earth shattering: Kamala and Tim are building a...
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Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20246 min read
Trump Got More Votes From California Than From Any Other State
Rudy Salas & Adam Gray Were The Worst Dems In Sacramento— They Want To Be The Worst In DC California may not be all that progressive, but...
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Howie Klein
Apr 27, 20246 min read
6 Cali Seats Will Decide Who Controls Congress— & The Dems Have Opted For Lesser Of 2 Evils Gambles
L.A. Times Coverage Doesn’t Include Candidate Quality Yesterday, L.A. Times political staff writer Julia Wick noted that “While...
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Howie Klein
Apr 17, 20247 min read
NOT ANY Blue Will Do— Episode 3,725... California + Buffalo, NY
I’m not really that familiar with Melanie Mason’s reporting. I’ve seen her stuff at Politico and I have no impression that she is...
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Howie Klein
Apr 1, 20245 min read
Look No Further Than The ACA To Understand Why Not "Any Blue Will Do" In Congressional Elections
The any-blue-will-do drumbeat has begun— from the DCCC and from the DCCC-minded. Most of the candidates in the DCCC’s Red to Blue program...
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Howie Klein
Jan 30, 20245 min read
The DCCC Celebrates It's Inability Or Unwillingness To Distinguish Between Shit And Shinola
The New Red To Blue List Is Mostly Shit Late last week, the Washington Post ran a pointless puff piece on the latest DCCC chair, Suzan...
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Howie Klein
Aug 8, 20237 min read
The Most Important Factor In The 2024 Elections Is Happening Now: Candidate Selection
The DCCC leaked/planted a memo with former Republican Jennifer Rubin and she got all excited about it, although it’s a version of the...
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Howie Klein
May 8, 20236 min read
The Problem With The Dems' Lesser Evil Strategy Is That Some Voters View The Republican As Less Evil
Establishment Democrats have so little faith in what the party is supposed to stand for that they count on a lesser of two evils approach...
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Howie Klein
Apr 30, 20232 min read
Why Isn't California Leading In Progressive Solutions-- Corrupt Conservative Dems In The Legislature
Here Are Their Names This year’s Courage Campaign ratings of all the California legislators just came out. It’s important to mention that...
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Howie Klein
Feb 25, 20232 min read
The Question Of Extremely Poor Candidate Quality Plagues Both Parties
It shouldn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out that especially bad candidates are more likely to lose elections than especially good— or...
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Howie Klein
Feb 10, 20234 min read
Sometimes There Just Is No Lesser Evil Running-- So The Democrats Lost CA-13, A Nice Blue District
California’s new 13th congressional district southeast of San Francisco in the rural Central Valley— including voters from Merced,...
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