Blue Water

An Emerson College ePoll released earlier today shows a small lead for a Democrat in Arizona's 8th congressional district. Dr. Hiral Tipirneni leads Republican Debbie Lesko by one percentage point. How do I know this? Am I checking a list of special elections constantly? Am I reaching out to relatives in Arizona? No, of course not. I received an email from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) telling me about this race. This is the same way I, and I assume many other Democrats nationwide received information about some of the other special elections that took since the 2016 election. I doubt I would know who Jon Ossoff and Conor Lamb are, if not for these emails from the DNC. While the organization has received harsh criticism for approximately the past two years (it was hacked in 2016), it does a good job of spreading the word and getting the message out to Democrats nationwide. This specific special election, AZ-08, will be held one week from today on April 24. While the DN...

On April 5, Jeff Greenfield, a write at Political, published a piece that opens up with the following hypothetical situation: "It's Wednesday, November 7, 2018, and the Democrats have awakened to the taste of ashes in their mouths. Despite the poll numbers and the pattern of history, Republicans have somehow managed to keep their losses small enough to retain control of the House. They've even picked up a seat or two in the Senate." In The Left's Year of Magical Thinking , Greenfield later describes how this Democratic nightmare situation comes to pass, and references "friendly fire," as a major reason. Greenfield makes three arguments in this article, all of which are either irrelevant, or simply untrue. While I disagree with the points he makes, and while I'm not 100% sure what it is that he is trying to do, I agree with his sentiment that democrats should avoid campaigning against Trump, and campaign for something. As we reviewed in last week...

The 2016 presidential could be described as a political awakening for many of people throughout this country. According to a recent NPR article , there are twice as many women (431, 339 of which are republicans) running for office compared to 2016. Students who were victims of a shooting from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have kept the conversation on gun violence and common-sense gun laws going longer than the discussion after similar attacks at Pulse Night Club, Sandy Hook Elementary and Columbine High School. Between 2017 and 2018, there were demonstrations like the Women's March and March for Our Lives that featured hundreds of thousands of people. Citizens of the United States have responded to the Trump presidency with activism, and have spoken up about some of the more egregious things the administration has proposed or done. Politicians have taken notice, and political pundits on different television news outlets, and many campaign staffers have discussed the ...