Photo courtesy of The New Yorker. With New Hampshire now behind us, the Democratic primary field seems to have narrowed down significantly. Septuagenarians Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, have wasted…
Photo courtesy of Getty Images. For many Democrats who believe in “vote blue no matter who,” electability may be an important quality to look for in a candidate during the…
Image courtesy of Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer. The apocalypse had arrived. The New Hampshire Democratic primary was close, and the Iowa caucus an abject disaster. Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight ominously forecasted that…
Voting should be a handful of things: easy, accessible, private, and quick. In fact, the part of the voting process that should consume the most time is the researching of candidates and the issues.
Nearly one month from the Iowa caucus, thirteen Democrats have dropped out of the presidential race--mayors, governors, and U.S. Senators among them. There are still fifteen (!) left, including the first prominent Democrat to announce their candidacy: former Congressman John Delaney of Maryland. As of this writing, Delaney has struggled to break ground in the polls, but he has recently redoubled his efforts in Iowa in the hopes that his brand of “pragmatic idealism” will eventually catch fire. In The Zeitgeist recently sat down with Delaney to talk national service, infrastructure, foreign policy--and that box jump video.
After the 2018 midterm election, Beto O’Rourke was a rising star in the Democratic party, but the Texas native’s career has since fizzled out. I write this as someone who still supports Beto O’Rourke, but also as someone who is choosing to be realistic.
In their respective campaigns to beat President Donald Trump in the next election cycle, Democratic candidates have proposed disruptive legislative ideas as part of their campaign slogans addressing America’s out of control student-debt ($1.5 trillion), largest outstanding consumer debt other than mortgages.
There's a lot of presidential candidates. Photo courtesy of Vox.com. With Beto O’Rourke’s recent announcement of his bid for president, a staggering 14 Democrats have thrown their hat into the…
President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget proposal calls for major reductions in spending on Medicare and Medicaid, although he promised not to cut the programs as a candidate in 2016.…
The past few weeks have seen more candidates jump into the increasingly crowded competition for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper launched his campaign…