Cross posted from the new home of Heidi Li’s Potpourri.I know this annoys many people but I for one do not care too much whether John McCain or Barack Obama wins this election. Since I find Senator Obama and Senator McCain each unacceptable, although f…

Cross posted from the new home of Heidi Li’s PotpourriWith all due disclaimers about the reliability of polls, the ones that interest me the most are the ones that are focused on traditional swing states and states that this year are tending toward bei…

CQ Politics is reporting a new twist in the shameless collusion between Senator Obama and the DNC to suggest that, at a time when the Democratic Party is deeply divided, it is somehow Senator Obama’s prerogative to pick the next DNC chair. (Thanks to D…

[This is the latest post from Heidi Li's Potpourri at its new home. The subscribe by feed and by email features are now clearly set up at "Potpourri 2.0"]The challenge of being President of the United States is the same challenge each adult faces eve…

I have received a number of communications in which people express various forms of confusion about Act Blue and its treatment of The Denver Group. This will be my final post regarding this matter but I will do my best to answer the questions I have be…

Read it to believe it.This is what my Party, MY Party, the Democratic Party, the Party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., of Hillary Rodham Clinton, of Stephanie Tubbs Jones, of William Jefferson Clinton has come to. No internal c…

I am aware that on September 2 the DNCC managed to post its official tally of the roll call. I had not posted it here because I too hastily assumed that the information was sufficiently accessible already. But I am all for sharing facts, so for those s…

A few days ago I posted a response to one of the few polite communications I have received from a a strong supporter of the Obama-Biden ticket. I took the time to write the post because of the courtesy and intelligence displayed in that original commun…