On Monday, Pete Buttigieg wanted some pizza, Bernie Sanders wanted some bucks, and Joe Biden wanted just another petition.
Continue reading “Day 84: 8/12/19”Tag: Jay Inslee
Days 82 and 83: 8/10/19-8/11/19
Over the weekend, Tim Ryan figured out how targeted emails works, Jay Inslee went full super hero, and Joe Biden was exaggerating his difficulties.
Continue reading “Days 82 and 83: 8/10/19-8/11/19”Week 12: August 4-August 10
Last weekend, there were two mass shootings in America, coming fresh off another mass shooting just last week. While Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro, and Tim Ryan called the victims their constituents, it was clear that none of the candidates knew how to campaign in the immediate aftermath of a tragedy. The email count dropped sharply.

Day 79: 8/7/19
Content warning: There will be more talk of the weekend’s events in this post.
As the candidates resume their campaigns, their debate dreams are top priority. Candidates who haven’t qualified for September yet are pushing for donations and polls. Beto O’Rourke, Joe Biden, and Julian Castro all reacted to the President’s attacks on them, and Kamala Harris is taking a five-day bus tour across Iowa.
Continue reading “Day 79: 8/7/19”Day 77: 8/5/19
Content warning: There will be more talk of the weekend’s events in this post.
In the wake of a national tragedy, a country looks to its leaders for guidance, for comfort, and for hope. Though the shootings in El Paso and Dayton and the bloody night in Chicago were not on their own a tragedy of the same scale as 9/11, for example, they are indicative of a greater, on-going tragedy. The country is mourning, and suffice to say, at least half of us are not expecting any comfort from our President. Sure enough, he failed to even name the correct city one of the attacks happened in.
Love her or hate her, Nancy Pelosi is not a leader of the country. She is a leader of Congress. The Democratic party is currently without a single head. President Obama did step up and make a statement on Twitter, drawing hundreds of thousands of sighs of nostalgia, but we cannot go back to an Obama presidency. Instead, we must look to our field of candidates and see how each of them are responding.
Continue reading “Day 77: 8/5/19”Day 74: 8/2/19
As the week came to an end, on Friday: Joe Biden got upset Obama’s record was attacked, Kamala Harris didn’t actually hit her fundraising goal, and Julian Castro was so pleased that his fearmongering worked, he upped the ante with some red font.
Continue reading “Day 74: 8/2/19”Day 73: 8/1/19
Things were quieting down on Thursday. Kirsten Gillibrand continued to ignore her financial supporters, Joe Biden joked about his debate closing statement flub, and Julian Castro tried some fearmongering to raise funds.
Continue reading “Day 73: 8/1/19”Day 72: 7/31/19
On Wednesday, the gloves were off! Joe Biden released a new sticker, Andrew Yang is literally selling nothing for $40, and Bernie Sanders’ average donation is slipping further.
Continue reading “Day 72: 7/31/19”Debate 2: Night 2
In just a few minutes from this post going live, the second night of the second Democratic Presidential Primary Debate will begin on CNN! If you’re wondering about the candidates, here are their email strengths:
Note: Donor and non-donor emails are not separated for these counts.
Continue reading “Debate 2: Night 2”Day 71: 7/30/19
On Tuesday, everyone was preparing for the July debates, Andrew Yang celebrated too soon, and Kamala Harris sent the most boring campaign email I’ve ever received.
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