Political Bandstand

The media has been a common scapegoat when it comes to instigating controversy about issues that have potential to provoke the public emotionally. In some cases perhaps justly so, in other cases perhaps not. In this case we have to take a good look at the nature of the media coverage from day […]

Hillary Clinton has recently gone balls out in Indiana and North Carolina in an effort to strip Barack Obama of his significant delegate lead. Some analysts have been saying Clinton needed a solid win in both states to justify even staying in the race. Other analysts felt if she could claim a […]

The Hillary Clinton campaign continues to champion the idea that delegates from states containing higher percentages of African-American Democrats and states where higher numbers of cross over voters reside are somehow less valid than delegates pledged by states consisting of larger numbers of Democrats like New York and California.
“I have won the big states. […]

I’m Laramie Sharp, a self-appointed political pundit.  Politics is a subject that everyone either loves, hates, knows nothing about, or any combination of the three.  It is a science of endless fascination because so many end results are realized by methods of government.  Politics can be an avenue for the acheivement of power, a mechanism for social change, an outlet […]