Someone working for Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D-CA) campaign accidentally left an internal memo mentioning the campaign’s “summer slump” in a New Hampshire restaurant, according to a Monday Politico report.
This barely seems like news. Nothing I. That memo seems even surprising or remotely scandalous.
Why are stupid people in the campaign doing things to make it harder for a Dem candidate? What else will they leave lying around?
Why is this so bloody hard???
In its editorial tilt, TPM is basically all in for Warren/Sanders and against Harris and Biden in these primaries. Sorry, but there is really no reason for this article to be up there. You want controversy? Bernie used the ‘n’ word. Not a peep from the Media.
I’m voting for Harris in the CA primary in March, and I don’t care about notes seen by somebody leaked to somebody.
i bet that person is kicking themselves in the ass right now.
Kudos to the Harris campaign for exhibiting an appropriate amount of self-awareness.
While I agree that this article is about a big nothing, I do not see what you’re seeing…
I wish DNC could do a national primary on the same day. I hate how 7/8 of the candidates never even get to ask for my vote, and it makes it impossible to get enthused about anybody.
I’ve been in favor of a national primary since 2000. There’s no reason for this piecemeal system we have that was developed in the days of horse and buggy campaigns through the wheat fields of the midwest. One day is all that’s needed.
I envision a system where the polls all open at the same time and all close at the same time and no results, not even exit polls, are revealed until the last poll is closed. There’s no reason in this highly technological world that this can’t be done. Both the primary and the general should be one day - 12 hour period to cover all the time zones.
It’ll never happen, but it should.
ETA: Along with the one-day primary, no one should be allowed to declare candidacy until 1 January of the election year. This three year campaign nonsense is ridiculous, for the same reason.
It gets dragged out for TV ratings and ad sales. That’s the reason.
I’m more in favor of an American-Idol-style elimination game, with national voting (but yes, only one vote per person each round…).
Eliminate one or two people every week or every other week until the field is whittled all the way down.
Probably get higher participation, but I’m reluctant to make a game-show atmosphere out of something so serious. It would be a trade-off.
It’s article choice and slant. Nearly every Biden flub has gotten front page treatment. Really nothing from Bernie/Warren. The slant on Harris’ HC plan wasn’t ‘wow, what an interesting addition to the HC debate’. It was ‘flip flop. Harris gets questioned on authenticity.’. I mean I expect that crap from far left pubs or Politico, but TPM is supposed to be the intellectually honest source and it’s fallen victim to primary pie fights like most news sources do.
You clicked on it, didn’t you??? 
I like it. But if there’s a talent competition, I suppose Buttigieg is a shoe-in, since he plays classical piano. Although Tulsi can probably do the hula…
Not saying it has to have that atmosphere, just utilizing the elimination-style of voting that we currently have by default, but by making it nation-wide, eliminating the fact that the first rounds of the elimination are skewed significantly and not representative of the overall population.
Hell, most of the States have been working to move up closer to the front because of that un-Democratic bit that they never get a chance to vote for the people they want, just the ones that are left.
Having a poll every 2 weeks for a couple of months would be taxing, but something along those lines would allow everyone a say in the final pick.
Probably participation would be much higher, but would people take it as seriously - that’s my concern. You’re leaning more toward my national primary idea - nice hybrid.
Biden’s flubs are significant, because he’s running almost entirely on his “mystical electability,” as one writer called it, and yet he keeps making mistakes like the same guy who couldn’t make it through the primaries before.
