Month: January 2016

Multiple articles dissecting the current support for presidential candidates like Democrat (nee Independent) Senator Bernie Sanders and Republican real estate mogul Donald Trump and Teahadist Senator Ted Cruz claim they support their candidates because of the inertia in Washington. Nothing is getting done and the country has fallen into one…

The 2008 presidential election was a milestone in the United States as we elected our first African-American president. Of course President Barack Obama’s race was a major topic of discussion at the time…but so was the gender of his major Democratic opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton. And not much as changed…

Apparently GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump is still using this as part of his ‘stump’ speech in Iowa to great effect…not the negative effect or recoil by the audience you would expect from something so heinous…but with applause and cheering. Later, he utters the line that gets the most notice:…

For my thousand and first post, I am going for pure snark: For his recent new found support for public education during is State of the State address, Governor Walker suggested that he’d work with the University of Wisconsin System to develop a three year degree program. Walker reiterated the…

Wednesday was the first meeting of our occasional governor’s new Wisconsin Commission on the Future of the Family, created “for the purpose of identifying issues and barriers relating to the overall wellbeing of families in the State, developing policies that lift individuals out of poverty, and developing and recommending polices…

On Monday Robert Reich, who served as Secretary of Labor in the Bill Clinton administration, wrote a post on his blog outlining why Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a better candidate than Hillary Clinton for those seeking real change in our nation’s political system. I’ve known Hillary Clinton since…

Last night Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump skipped the Republican presidential debate. In choosing to shy away from the debate, Trump cited his poor treatment at the hands of Fox News personality Megyn Kelly as the reason he chose to not to participate, but back in 2012 Donald Trump told…

This is my 1000th post on Blogging Blue since Zach asked me to join in 2010. I would like to thank all of you faithful readers…and commenters…and particularly those of you who reached out directly to me to thank me for what I have been doing…for letting me hang around…

The front and center podium should be set up and left empty. And maybe they can get Clint Eastwood to address it!

http://theweek.com/speedreads/601674/watch-3-bros-explain-why-theyre-voting-donald-trump target=_blank>THIS is Republican presidential Donald Trump’s base. *eye roll*