The End of the Shutdown was Not a Republican Victory

RS Seminar- Economic Crisis: The End of the Shutdown was Not a Republican Victory:  Today’s Democratic Party is divided along two separate axes: an ideological one and, for lack of a better term, a strategic one. The former...

Too Many Americans See the Democrats as a Hostile Elite

Too Many Americans See the Democrats as a Hostile Elite: Even though that perception is partly the creation of right-wing media, the Democrats surely need to hone their identity.

HAROLD MEYERSON, 

The Joyful Warrior and the Happy Warrior

The Joyful Warrior and the Happy Warrior: The new and improved Democrats sound like some very old and very good Democrats of long ago.

It Took a Village in Georgia

  

It Took a Village to Try to  Seize the American Presidency 

 

On the NS blog 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/it-took-a-village-to-try-to-seize-the-presidency

 

With 19 indicted conspirators and 30 unindicted conspirators, there are now almost as many Republicans caught up in Fulton County’s wheels of justice as there are Republican candidates for president. At some point, we may want to indict those candidates (among whom only Chris Christie and, lately and reluctantly, Mike Pence have noted that Trump appears to have broken the law), too. On the charge of contributing to the erosion of American democracy, any number are guilty as sin.
by Harold Meyerson 

California labor and the fall elections

Labor's campaign in California has been an ambitious mix of trying to persuade swing voters while at the same time trying to mobilize those Democrats who don't often vote in nonpresidential elections.

Harold Meyerson

August 31, 2010

Just how blue will California be this November? Will this Democratic state return Barbara Boxer to the Senate and Jerry Brown to the statehouse, or will their mega-funded GOP opponents ride the red tide of what's looking to be a strong Republican year into office?

Let's start with the governor's race. Brown has been no more than intermittently visible this year, husbanding his limited funds for an autumnal media blitz. Meg Whitman, by contrast, has bought into every media market known to humankind. By the normal rules of politics, she should have opened a lead on the late-starting Brown. But by the measure of almost every poll, she hasn't.

Part of the reason for that is California's union movement, which has put up ads and begun its field program earlier than ever this year to counter Whitman's spending advantage. As Seema Mehta reported in Monday's Times, labor has already spent $14 million on advertising and getting its ground game in place.