Here's a lighthearted look at the primaries

[BlueMTexpat]

from The Surge that also incorporates recent events. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/2020-elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-donald-trump.html

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Elizabeth Warren
~She’s taking the leeeeeead~
It sickens the Surge to recognize that one candidate’s campaign is going so undeniably well that we are forced, for the first time, to declare a back-to-back Surge champion, preventing us from using this space for an ironic celebration of, say, Bill Weld. While most of the news focus this week pertained to certain goings-on in the House of Representatives—goings-on that of course Elizabeth Warren was the first candidate to call for, in April—Warren has started to take Joe Biden’s lead. She led Biden narrowly, for the first time, in two national polls released this week, and she has taken the lead in the Iowa polling average as well. She took the lead in a New Hampshire poll. She is nearing the lead in Nevada. She is drawing healthy shares from supporters of both Clinton and Sanders in the 2016 primary contest. She is starting to see some movement among black voters. Democrats are the most enthusiastic about her candidacy. There is … nothing going wrong right now? Nothing! This newsletter likes to make jokes about how politicians are failing at politics, and she’s just not giving us anything.

Donald Trump
No one knows how the politics of impeachment will play out.
True story: A couple of hours after the Surge closed up shop on last week’s edition, in which we wrote that the president had a decent week, a scandal involving Ukraine and a whistleblower blew wide open, and now the House is almost certainly going to impeach Trump. What else is there to say, except that an actual cabal of clowns, from the circus, puppeteer the hell-world simulation in which we participate daily? One thing that has always been certain among pundits is the following: Supporters of impeachment are confident that it will redound to Democrats’ political benefit, whereas opponents believe that Democrats will suffer a horrible backlash, costing them the 2020 presidential election. Might we say that no one has any idea, since there is but one (1) semi-recent data point for how impeachment “plays”? We might. We would also observe, however, that President Donald Trump has not behaved this week like a guy who’s pleased to have suckered Democrats into impeaching him.
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More at the link. Whether one agrees or not, it is entertaining.

[BeyondGeography]

1. This Sanders line made me laugh

These are messaging tweaks that sound like they have the potential to sway roughly four voters across the country.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. The whole piece is

tongue in cheek, but that was one of the best bits.