2020 election

Election Connection: 41 Weeks: Be Informed

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Being informed is not simply about the 2020 election although it is important to keep up to date on news. In order to do that, it is especially imperative to only glean your news from reliable news sources. This graphic should help you with that. Note the key on the right side of the graphic.

MediaBiasChart.com (c)2019-2020

In addition to using this graphic as a tool, Google is your friend. I can’t tell you how many times I correct a cousin or an uncle because what they’ve posted on Facebook is untruthful when the truth is only a Google search away. (It’s practically a full-time job.)

As you know from previous posts, I listen to several podcasts that relate to the news, politics, and current events including the impeachment and the upcoming election (which will have separate posts as needed). It is possible that you have noticed that I am a big fan of the Crooked Media group. I listen to almost all of their podcasts and follow most of the major players on Twitter even when I don’t listen to their particular podcast regularly. Joking aside, they really should put me on their payroll!

Their new one, What A Day is something that I can’t remember how I managed without it. It is about fifteen minutes each weekday morning with what’s going on in our world and some headlines with a really needed dose of humor. I do not start my day without it and highly recommend giving them a try. There is also a read-only update that you can receive nightly by email subscription.

What a Day from Crooked Media. (c)2020

While What a Day is my favorite, two others out there with a similar idea of getting you the news on a daily basis are:

Today, Explained from Vox

What Next from Slate

UPDATE: Democratic Party Presidential Candidates for 2020

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Since the original post I made about the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates, two more have announced their intention to run for the Democratic nomination: Seth Moulton and Joe Biden, and three new Pod Save America interviews have come out: Moutlton, Kamala Harris, and Jay Inslee. Those interview links can be found on the original post.

Until the 2020 Election, the link for the candidate post will be on my Welcome page as well as on my We the People page.

People are donating and supporting their favorite candidate, kind of kicking the tires as it were, the eventual nominee is going to have some work to do in order to catch up to Trump who so far, isn’t going to be primaried.

At the end of the primaries, we will need to support the nominee no matter which candidate it is. All of their voices should be heard; they all have important messages on morals, decorum, policy and who we are as Americans. I have my favorites and I’m sure I will talk about them in future political posts.

Once the primaries are over and the general election campaigning begins, the Democratic Party candidate needs ALL OF OUR support and unity. They will also need a lot of money to compete with the Repuplican and Trump Propaganda machine, and the folks at Crooked Media have come up with a plan that you can participate in right now.
The Unify or Die fund.

All contributions  to this fund will be transferred to the candidate who is nominated at the Democratic National Convention for the general election. This can be done now.

I will also be adding this link to the original post, and adding it to my home page and my We The People page.

This is life and death. Literally. We must unify or die.