Opinion

Easy. Nominate Bernie Sanders. I’ve been through my share of blowouts. I was a kid when George McGovern won Massachusetts — and nowhere else. I was in Florida working for Jimmy Carter (on loan from Ted Kennedy’s office) when we lost not only the White House but also the Senate majority in Ronald Reagan’s first landslide. I was in Minnesota waiting to see if Fritz Mondale would carry any states. Two weeks before the 1988 election we were going to lose, with the help of then-Gov.

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When I was in high school, almost 50 years ago, we learned in PE Archery to stand firm and focus on the target, aiming our arrows at the center bulls eye. And then in track, we were trained to focus on the goal line, and to not pay attention to our fellow runners (by looking to the left or right) because it could cause us to not only break stride, but we also risked being discouraged, emotionally and/or mentally, by who was coming up behind us, or possibly even passing us up along the way.

Bernie Sanders was supposed to run away with the New Hampshire primary. This is his kind of state, where Democrats are mostly educated liberals. Yet the national celebrity from next-door Vermont bested Pete Buttigieg, recently an unknown from Indiana, by less than 4,000 votes. It appears they are both walking off with nine delegates. And that was after Buttigieg had split the moderate vote with Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who came in a strong third.

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There was a notice placed in The Livingston Enterprise about a meeting for the Livingston Growth Policy that has since taken place on Jan. 28. The meeting was well done with photos displayed on tables for people of Livingston and Park County to view and make comments. Discussion was varied and the participants’ interaction provocative. Many questions are yet to be asked and discussions to be aired.