Sometime between the banter about Georgia weather and a riveting discussion on the redeeming qualities of lettuce, it hit me. My grandmother and I were talking politics.
And not just the “our country is in a mess” rhetoric. We were analyzing candidates as this 80-year-old Southern woman articulately explained NAFTA to me. She even knew the [...]
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March 9, 2008 – 5:48 pm
Ian Sherr tries to find the delegates…
February 12, 2008 – 2:34 pm
Published Feb. 12, 2008 in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Count the Delegates, If You Can
by Ian Sherr
Just when I thought I had figured out why the Democratic Party has superdelegates, Nancy Pelosi comes along and says I have got it all backward.
“The superdelegates were established to give many more people at the grassroots level the opportunity [...]
