Iowa Caucus Guy’s Presidential Election Blog

While the Democratic and Republican nominations ended with a whimper, and not a bang, the next two biggest parties look to name a nominee. The Green Party seems to be moving forward with naming Howie Hawkins as their nominee.  He was with the party from the first, essentially one of the founders of the party. I tried to get some of the Green Party candidates to contribute something to the blog, but was met with silence all around.  Even the briefest of looks at the Green nomination race, one can tell there was some resentment fro the other leading candidates towards Hawkins.  Then, the most recent news was that Jesse Ventura might be interested in being the nominee.  It's uncertain if we have seen the last of this race. The Libertarian Party will be naming their nominee very soon. This was a race I talked about a lot on the blog, and consider a very important one, since the Party had run Gary Johnson twice in a row, and this race will be determining their next direction. A

There is one politician who I get more ire online from than any other. Someone attacked me when I predicted that Elizabeth Warren would have better polling numbers than he did. (I was right. This was around May of last year.)  I didn't say anything about Sanders good or bad, simply an observation. So, that is the kind of thing people complain about.  Ironically, I am a bigger Sanders guy than you might guess.  Heck, many of the arguments I get to on social media are with people I agree with.  I am used to it! You already know about books like this, and they are the type of "strike while the iron is hot" screeds written for the candidates' supporters. Politics move fast though.  Books by Ralph Nader, Jesse Ventura and Sarah Palin among others were big sellers but did they have relevance four years later? I suspect Bernie thought the same thing when he wrote it back in 2016. Hillary was going to surely win and move things back to Center.  I have no idea wha