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 266 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 307 min read
Klitgaard’s Formula: C = M + D - A (Corruption Equals Monopoly Plus Discretion Minus Accountability)
Looking At A Slice Of California Through That Lens Ralph Vartabedian could have just as easily written “How Texas Became a New Center of...
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Howie Klein
Aug 243 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 155 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 36 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 276 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 177 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 15 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
Feb 153 min read
Do The DCCC Democrats NOT Want To Flip Valadao's Central Valley District? Rudy Salas Again!
The San Joaquin Valley’s 22nd congressional district should have been a Democratic seat. A majority-Latino district, it includes most of...
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Howie Klein
Jan 305 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
Sep 17, 20233 min read
Nice Blue CA-22 Election Shapes Up: 3 Shitty Conservatives And A Fascist
CA-22 is a fairly safe blue district in California’s Central Valley, parts of 3 counties— Kern, Tulare and Kings. Biden beat Trump by 13...
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Howie Klein
Aug 10, 20233 min read
Will Their Abortion Fanaticism Lose The Republicans Their House Majority? I Say YES
Did I Mention Their Dysfunctional Leadership? Extreme right House Republicans in safe hillbilly districts— to use Gym Jordan’s parlance—...
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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
Dec 28, 20226 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Dec 13, 20227 min read
The 2 Parties Grapple With What To Do About Unelectable Candidates, From JR Majewski To Rudy Salas
A new USAToday poll by Suffolk University shows Trump’s presidential bid in 2024 has cratered among Republicans. “By 2-1, GOP and...
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Howie Klein
Nov 23, 20224 min read
House GOP Extremism And Overreach Will Probably Kill Their Chances To Keep The Majority In 2024
Every time he’s run, conservative Republican Mike Garcia was given a nice present by the DCCC— the same unelectable GOP-lite opponent,...
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