Stabenow, Peters slam GOP Senate for dropping Flint aid (Grand Haven Tribune) When will millennials start liking Hillary Clinton? (USA Today) During the 2004 election, and to a lesser extent the 2000 election, Democrats expended a lot of time and energy trying to silence Ralph Nader and David Cobb, their presidential campaigns and their supporters. Democrats lost both of those elections. In 2008, and again in 2012, there really wasn’t that same push, at least by the Democratic Party establishment, to obstruct and silence the presidential…

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Libertarian Gary Johnson Keeps Fighting to Join the Presidential Debates (truthdig.com) Can Gary Johnson And Jill Stein Crash The Debates? (huffingtonpost.com) Fact check: Trump misfires on debate claim (USA Today) Although the first televised presidential debate in American history in 1960 is famed for how it shaped voters’ perceptions of Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, it’s important to remember that it wasn’t followed by another televised debate in 1964, or 1968, or even 1972. The second presidential election to feature a televised debate didn’t…

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Is Green Party Candidate Jill Stein ‘Anti-Vaccine’? (snopes.com) One of the more troubling aspects of recent federal budget negotiations has been congressional Republicans’ insistence on prolonging a ban on using federal funds for research into the effects of gun violence. I’m very strongly opposed to this ban, but my opposition has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with research. It wouldn’t matter what was being targeted by the research funding ban; I believe that banning funding into any kind of research is counterproductive…

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Bernie Sanders just declared war on the Democratic establishment (Washington Post) I remember the 1976 Democratic presidential primaries very well. I don’t mean that I was there — in fact, I was busy being born that winter, so that kind of kept my eyes off of politics for a while — but it’s an interesting case study of the machinations of Democratic party politics and the primary process that I’ve studied time and time again. This was the first primary after the McGovern debacle, which itself…

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