Remember President Jerry Brown in 1993? Remember President Hillary Clinton in 2009? Well if you went with early Presidential Polling, Brown and Clinton should have been the President according to polls taken months before the first Iowa Caucuses. History played out differently and Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, after the 1992 and 2008 primary and … Read more
Congratulations to Senator Bernie Sanders for breaking out of the Echo Chamber and having a town hall on Fox News. While Fox News has deplorable individuals among its commentator ranks like Jeanine Pirro, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and Tucker Carlson, it is important that Democrats and Progressives continue to reach out to most news outlets … Read more
Great enthusiasm filled the David Garcia for Governor Rally in the main gathering room at the Arizona State University Student Pavilion on October 23, 2018 as approximately 700 people heard speaker after speaker (including Dr. Garcia and Senator and 2016 Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders) electrified the crowd and passionately called for everyone to vote for progressive Dr. Garcia and other Democrats and get family, friends, and co-workers to the polls as well.
At 5 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2016, I had an existential crisis. How could a Progressive candidate like me win election on the same day as Donald Trump?
The LD9 team won early on Nov. 8. Randy, Steve and I were the first winners to take the stage at the Pima County Democratic Party party in the Marriott Hotel, where many of us watched President Barack Obama win twice.
Excitement was in the air. Everyone was so cheery. The polls all told us that our candidate– the first woman president– would win handily. Yes, of course, one poll said that Hillary Clinton would win by only 3%, but how could that be when all other polls were so high in favor of her?
Now we all know what happened. The polls were wrong. Twenty-five years of lies; millions of social media shares of questionable meme attacks and fake news; editorializing instead of news analysis by mainstream news media; Russian hacks; dithering, drawn-out FBI investigation of those @#$% emails; and deep-seeded sexism took down the most qualified candidate and gave us a president who promises to rule with an authoritarian hand.
So, how did I win on the same night Trump won?
Crossposted at DemocraticDiva.com
Protester: Hillary Clinton has "cheated in every primary, in every caucus. She is a cheat, a fraud." pic.twitter.com/tKXJnpRNsL
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) April 16, 2016
Hillary somehow cheated in every primary, in every caucus. Okay.