Author: Thom Hartmann

Jonathan Capehart isn’t sure that Bernie Sanders will be able to “move to the center” if he wins the Democratic nomination. The inside-the-beltway conventional wisdom is that the GOP and the Democratic candidates can be as extreme as they want in the primary – but they better be centrists in the general. I’ll tell you why the Democrats could win big in 2016 – but only if they ignore that conventional...

Whatever happens in tonight’s New Hampshire primary – the mainstream media narrative is that Hillary Clinton will still be in a good position to win the Democratic nomination for president – mostly because she has a “firewall” of loyal African-American voters in the South. But how strong is that firewall – really? As civil rights activist Shaun King points out in a new piece for the New York Daily News – black Americans are not a monolith – and Hillary Clinton doesn’t exactly have the greatest record when it comes to racial justice issues. For example – as first...

Thom Hartmann asks Senator David Pryor, Hillary Surrogate, to summarize Hillary Clinton’s...

So what’s the mood like on the ground in the Granite State – and what are voters saying about how they cast their ballots? In the wake of Bill Clinton’s unpresidential temper tantrum – a pro-Hillary super PAC is beginning to bang the drums of war and is calling for new attacks on Bernie Sanders. Going negative hurt the Hillary campaign in 2008 – so why are her people making the same mistakes 8 years later? Luke Vargas, George Landrith, Kymone Freeman, & Bryan Pruitt join Thom...

Thom Hartmann talks with MSNBC host Chris Matthews about Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie...