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The DCCC Has A Reminder For Progressives: "We Hate You And Want Your Candidates To Lose"
Battleground: Oregon I enjoy reading Max Cohen’s morning political reports in PunchBowl when I wake up most days. But yesterday, he wrote...
Howie Klein
May 14, 20244 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Apr 17, 20247 min read
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The House In A Total Mess— And Neither Craven Party Has What It Takes To Bring It Back To Health
The Lesser Evil Party Will Likely Win In November Blue America has an ActBlue page dedicated to flipping the House. There are no Blue...
Howie Klein
Apr 8, 202410 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Apr 1, 20245 min read
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The DCCC Is Preparing To Lose In WI-01 Again... It's Something They're Very Good At
Peter Barca Is A Turd; He's Not Going To Beat Bryan Steil The other day, the DCCC added 4 more candidates to their Red to Blue program— a...
Howie Klein
Mar 30, 20244 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Jan 30, 20245 min read
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The DCCC Could Be A Lot Less Ham-Handed And Mechanical In Their District Targeting For 2024
A DCCC-adjacent PAC, the Congressional Integrity Project, launched 18 pretty cool identical ads today that were poorly targeted—using the...
Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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Is Gym Jordan Toast-- He Needs To Do A Lot Better Today... Or He's Screwed
Hours before the balloting started yesterday, Jamelle Bouie wrote that “Even some of the Republicans who have vowed, publicly and...
Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20235 min read
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Just What The Democratic Party Needs-- Another Sam Bankman Fried, Financing Conservative Candidates
Another Right-of-Center Billionaire-- This Time Rick Caruso When billionaire developer Rick Caruso ran for mayor of L.A. as a "Democrat"...
Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20235 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Aug 8, 20237 min read
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Republicans Doubling Down On Their Anti-Choice Hysteria-- Voters May Have A Message For Them (Again)
This list of Republican congressmembers below may look familiar to you. They are all incumbents in seats that Biden won in 2020. And...
Howie Klein
Jun 22, 20236 min read
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Dems Will Probably Take Back The House Next Year-- But Only Because The GOP Is Committing Hari Kari
There are some swing districts with Republican incumbents that look like they may very difficult for the GOP to hold next year. For...
Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20234 min read
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The Electorate Has Turned Sour On Republicans... Can You Imagine That?
The Whole Party Has Been Tarred By The Freedom Caucus & QAnon According to the DCCC right now there are 31 Republican-held districts more...
Howie Klein
May 26, 20234 min read
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Another Xenophobic, Racist GOP Scam— This One In The Hudson Valley
Republican members of Congress from New York, like Marc Molinaro and Brandon Williams, have been fear-mongering in their districts about...
Howie Klein
May 21, 20233 min read
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The DCCC Allowed The Republicans To Waltz Into MI-10-- Will They Screw Up Again?
After the 2020 census, when the new maps were drawn in Michigan, southern Macomb County (and some of Oakland County)— the new 10th...
Howie Klein
May 17, 20232 min read
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Startling New Report: Turnout Among Democratic Party Supporters Crashed In Last Year's Midterms
Voters decide which candidates to back based on all kinds of cockamamie criteria, some of it far from rational. Just look at this ugly...
Howie Klein
May 3, 20233 min read
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Which Awful Establishment Party Will Screw Up Worse In Swing Districts?
Republicans in blue districts and swing districts have one thing they can count on— Hakeem Jeffries and the DCCC undercutting...
Howie Klein
Apr 29, 20235 min read
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DCCC Game-Plan For 2024 Is Starting Out Ambitious
The DCCC is taking aim at 31 red seats (+ two purple ones being vacated by Katie Porter and Elissa Slotkin, each of whom is running for...
Howie Klein
Apr 4, 20234 min read
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How Fake Partisan Polling Firms Screw Up Elections-- With An Assist From The Media
The New York Times assigned a trio of reporters— Jim Rutenberg, Ken Bensinger and Steve Eder— to get to the bottom of the plague of phony...
Howie Klein
Dec 31, 202211 min read
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Could The Democrats Have Kept The House Majority With A Little Extra Effort And Competence?
One of the most unexpected wins to drop into the Democrats’ lap was in southwest Washington state where a thoroughly red seat was won by...
Howie Klein
Dec 28, 20226 min read
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