New Orleans There are five more primaries this week, and Senator Bernie Sanders is favored to lose almost all of them, extending Hillary Clinton’s lead and her inevitable nomination by the Democratic Party. Sanders is will-bringing it hard every day and trying for every vote, as he should. The simple political calculus is usually that …
Category: National Politics
Hillary: Forget the Young Women, Go for the Moms
New Orleans Hillary Clinton is having well-documented problems appealing to young women. Backers like Gloria Steinem have been no help to her. She can talk about student loans and the need to get a woman elected, but where she’s getting traction, very cleverly, is with the “moms,” and if we were whispering advice in her …
Clintons’ Barking Up the Wrong Tree at Black Lives Matter
New Orleans How many decades have the Clintons been in public life? Four going on five, right? We’re talking about almost fifty years navigating the public forum. How many times do you imagine that the President, the Senator, the Secretary of State, and just plain Mr. and Mrs. Clinton have had to walk through, around, …