Editorial: Democratic newcomers need to learn from 2016 mistakes
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 13, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If Democrats want to win back the White House, their presidential candidates need to learn from the last time around and not allow campaigning and rhetoric to get as ugly and intense as it did in 2016.
Editorial: Eliminating superdelegates is the best policy for democrats
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 29, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
But since superdelegates have never voted against the decisions of primary voters, granting special voting rights to party officials — including elected Democrats — never had any real influence on the election. And if Washington elites did have the audacity to vote against their base, they could throw the Democratic party into a hugely divisive state.
Editorial: Eliminating superdelegates is the best policy for democrats
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 29, 2018
Filed under Uncategorized
But since superdelegates have never voted against the decisions of primary voters, granting special voting rights to party officials — including elected Democrats — never had any real influence on the election. And if Washington elites did have the audacity to vote against their base, they could throw the Democratic party into a hugely divisive state.
Editorial: Third parties show need for all candidates to step it up
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 14, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If any aspect of the massively hyped special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District went unnoticed, it was Libertarian Party candidate Drew Miller. After a preliminary count of the ballots cast Tuesday, Miller emerged with a paltry 1,379 votes — slightly more than half a percent of all votes cast in the election, which would usually relegate a ca...
Lamb misses the mark on gun issues
By Jeremy Wang | Senior Columnist
February 21, 2018
Southwestern Pennsylvania loves its guns. And for many Democrats outside Pittsburgh’s City limits, that part of the region’s culture has become a stumbling block to winning public office. Throughout his campaign, Conor Lamb — the Democratic candidate for March’s special election in Pennsyl...
Editorial: Despite new district map, parties still responsible for success
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 21, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Supreme Court released a new Pennsylvania Congressional District map Monday, redrawn to correct the state’s 2011 Republican-drawn version of the map, which the Supreme Court ruled as being an “unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.” Democrats feel encouraged by the new map, while Republicans are understandably concerned this new congressional map...
Biden begs the presidential question
By Maggie Durwald | Columnist
February 16, 2018
I settled into my seat at the Carnegie Music Hall Monday night, surrounded by cheering audience members, whose exclamations of “Run, Joe, run!” rang throughout the hall. Former Vice President Joe Biden had arrived in Pittsburgh. Biden’s 27th and final stop on his American Promise Tour took him to the Steel City Monday to talk about his ...
Don’t count out conservative Democrats
By Henry Glitz | Opinions Editor
September 17, 2017
With a mix of fear, anger and sheer disbelief, I watched the television screen in my friends’ apartment as CNN’s correspondent tapped an interactive map, coloring Pennsylvania red. Last fall’s presidential election came as a shock to many, but for me the blow came when my home state cast its ...
Pitt’s political clubs: left, right and in between
By Grant Burgman and Henry Glitz | The Pitt News Staff
May 30, 2017
As political protests and marches rocked campus last fall, Pitt’s campus political organizations reacted and changed with the rapidly shifting political landscape in Pittsburgh and around the country. Politically-minded students of all ideological allegiances became more involved and, in some cases, formed completely new groups. The Pitt ...