2016 Elections

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton debate head to head tonight for the first time and you're invited to join us here at PlanetPOV for a simultaneous live chat throughout it.

The Iowa Caucuses close their doors at 5:00pm PST tonight to start their caucusing process. We shall see if they also close the doors on some of the candidates' campaigns when they announce their results.

repub debate1Join us tonight for a live chat during tonight's Republican debate...sans Trump. The debate begins at 6:00pm PST.

It seems pretty clear that many "law and order" Republicans support criminality as long as it promotes their goals, whether it's these anti-abortion fanatics committing fraud, Kim Davis, militias seizing federal facilities, police shooting unarmed and innocent black men...and whenever a court finds the truth on the other side of them, they hate on justice.

Satire explained, "The final straw for us was really Sarah Palin endorsing Trump. We leveraged ourselves big time into a Trump/Palin product line and lost everything when Reality came out with the identical product. We just can't compete any longer with Reality so we have to close our doors."

The last Democratic debate before the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary takes place tonight, Sunday, Martin Luther King holiday weekend at 6:00pm PST...or as Hillary Clinton would call it, "prime time".

Tonight's Republican debate begins at 6:00pm PST. As usual, we're hosting a live chat to accompany the debate (the best prescription for not punching your tv) and you're invited to join us then!

There is one very important number that makes it impossible for Donald Trump to win the Presidency. And ironically, it is 47%. No, it's not Mitt Romney's 47% but it's just as destructive to Trump's hopes.

How is it that gerrymandering is legal? It is in essence, the power to corrupt democracy. I certainly understand why many politicians would want gerrymandering to continue to be legal but neither they nor anyone else can argue why it is not anti-democratic.

So, here we are coming to the end of a pretty unbelievable year. A reality show host is on the verge of becoming a...