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Building the bench of the Democratic Party; the extraordinary fundraising among members of Congress

Things have been looking up for Democratic candidates throughout the country in recent months, aided in no small part by the fail-to-deliver-promises record of the Trump administration. The news has been spread out in many states in the general election and some special elections on the congressional and state legislative levels, including Jeremy Zellner’s recent win in state...


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Switching to even-numbered years for local elections will drive up turnout significantly, but what is the actual pol...

A forewarning:  this post is an “into the weeds” review of political analysis.

New York State has switched the election cycles for most local elections from odd-numbered years, when no statewide or national elections are held, to even-numbered years, when presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and other statewide elections occur that generally produce much ...


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The race for governor

It’s only mid-February and we are already into the 2026 elections. Blame it on the decision to move primaries from September back to June.

Moving up the primary had all sorts of consequences. Party endorsements in February and petitioning kicking off at the end of the month. What were they thinking? The likelihood of freezing temperatures and snow packed sidewalks p...


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Zellner wins big in the Senate special election

With all the snow and cold we now know how hardy the base of voters is in the state Senate’s 61st District. The turnout, as expected, was low, but Jeremy Zellner’s win was solid.

Here are the vote totals with all but two of the 128 Election Districts reporting as of midnight:

Zellner, Democrat – 18,752 votes; 60 percent of the total votes cast Dan Gagliar...

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Some facts, observations, and heard-on-the-streets

The weather has been brutal as of late. The end of the Bills’ season was also brutal. Topping it all off was that strange press conference with Terry Pegula and Brandon Beane.

Here are some facts, observations, and heard-on-the-streets:

With Kansas City, Baltimore, and Cincinnati removed from the playoffs it should have gone better, even with all games on th...

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