Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by Denise Cross Photography https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ldcross\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>The Nevada Caucus is next up in the nominating process for the Democratic candidate for President of the United States.<\/p>\n
So far, we\u2019ve had one caucus in Iowa, which belly-flopped, and an election in New Hampshire. These two votes have shown that Dems are wary of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders has a committed following, Pete Buttigieg is running stronger than anybody expected, and \u2014 Surprise ! \u2014 Amy Klobuchar is moving up. These votes didn\u2019t tell us much of anything about Mike Bloomberg because he wasn\u2019t on the ballot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a horse race folks and it\u2019s fun. I enjoy watching Democracy in all its messy action. This is a big part of what America is about. This is who we are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWe\u2019ve got an elderly Jewish guy with fly-away hair, a religious gay guy of the liberal flavor of religion, a moderate woman from the snow belt and another liberal woman from the same state that threw JFK. Somewhere back in the crowd we have a former Vice President of the United States who\u2019s survived more horrific tragedy in his life than any one person should have to endure and keeps on ticking, and off on the side rail, but moving up, we see an erstwhile billionaire who says that he\u2019s willing to spend his entire fortune to stop the save democracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFor sheer grit, these people put the Boston Marathon all in the dirt. When it comes to happy, healthy democracy-in-action entertainment, they are \u2014 all of them \u2014 the best.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Nevada Caucus is next up in the nominating process for the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. So far, we\u2019ve had one caucus in Iowa, which belly-flopped, and an election in New Hampshire. These two votes have shown that Dems are wary of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders has a committed following, Pete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8154,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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