Blogging for choice – or choosing not to.

The demands of caucus and post-caucus coverage left the Reasonable Reporter unwilling to write anything more complicated than a grocery list on Blogging for Choice Day.
On January 22, which was the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, NARAL asked bloggers to write about the reasons it’s important to vote pro-choice. The request [...]

The caucus ain’t no pizza party, friends.

Two things, people. 1) The caucus is no place for casual voters. 2) If you don’t drag a few casual voters with you, your candidate will be crushed.
The Reasonable Reporter saw this contradiction demonstrated in Reno’s precinct 1003.
The precinct’s huge bands of Hillary and Obama supporters included more than a few [...]

Slouching Toward Caucus Day, part 3

Re-branding John Edwards
The Reasonable Reporter has written little about John Edwards. That’s because, embarrassingly enough, the Reasonable Reporter has found the Edwards campaign difficult to grasp.
After the candidate’s appearance at the Grand Sierra on Wednesday, the light went on. If Hillary is Coke, and Obama is Pepsi, then John Edwards is Old Labor Cola. It’s [...]

Slouching Toward Caucus Day, part 2

 Can Ron Paul’s Army put him over the top?
More than a few observers have predicted a strong enough caucus day turnout for Ron Paul to push him far above his statistical level of Republican support – perhaps he’ll even come in first, some have speculated. These are the unscientific projections of various credible political observers, [...]

Slouching Toward Caucus Day

Hillary and Obama and mortgage misfortune 
It was one of the most fascinating, but least commented-upon moments of the week. Perhaps only the Reasonable Reporter and Joe Harrington from KOLO noticed, although it hardly seems possible, given the number of eyeballs and cameras trained on Hillary Clinton when she sat down with Nevadans for a roundtable at Bertha [...]

Hillary’s Slide and Air America’s Rage Against the Machine

 
 
Hllary Clinton’s nomination is perhaps not inevitable after all, but while we wait to find out, it’s worth contemplating the possible role of progressive talk radio in creating the tide that may now suck her under.
Air America Radio was developed to counter the dominant conservative brand of AM talk radio. In recognition that Rush Limbaugh [...]

Reporter as public servant?

It was election eve on the planet San Francisco, and the doorbell rang. On the porch stood a neighbor, with whom no more than a nodding acquaintance had developed. She was clutching her voter guide, which in that particular year was the size of a small-town telephone book. She was aware of the Reasonable [...]