New Orleans In recent weeks Todd Gitlin, a Columbia University professor with deep roots on the left dating back to the 1960’s, the student movement, and the Students’ for a Democratic Society (SDS), wrote an interesting survey piece called the “Bernie Sanders Moment” in the New York Times. He looked at the rise of Bernie …
Category: National Politics
Field Operations are Still Key in the Land of Big Data
New Orleans Sitting around a barbeque grill in Missoula, Montana recently, I found myself in a mini-debate with a former political science professor at the University there who taught Jim Messina, a former Obama campaign manager and master political consultant. My friend’s position echoed Messina’s own post-election spin about bad political polling, arguing that “Cameron …
What Will be Left Behind After Sanders and Trump?
New Orleans This moment may be the “Progressive Spring” even in the blistering, clinging heat of July for two reasons: Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. How sweet can it be to have Trump on the border in Laredo, leading the polls among sixteen Republican candidates, ahead on the numbers in Iowa, and even the subject …