Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I shouldn't be reading Hunter Thompson this week. I should be reading something hopeful. Last week, during the Republican National Con...

Eight years after... In August 2008, I spent a week as an embedded blogger at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.  We we all so ...

Once again, we find ourselves in the midst of political convention season. Republicans gather in Cleveland this week -- they will wrap it ...

62 out of 75. Democrats are running in 62 of the 75 legislative races this year. This may be the most Dems throwing their hats in the ri...

All Democratic Party gatherings tend to draw bigger crowds during presidential election years. That is especially true when the race is a h...

Some of you may be wondering what hummingbirdminds thinks of the current election cycle. OK, maybe you don't, but hummingbirdminds is ...

You have to be a little bit wonky to like the debate over a party platform. I'm a little bit wonky. But I have to hand it to the pla...

Pete Gosar of Laramie just announced that he's running for governor. This is welcome news. In his very short speech, he said that as the...

Rep. Stan Blake from Rock Springs joins the band for a lively rendition of "Truckin'" at Friday night's reception. The b...

I am a delegate to the Wyoming Democratic Party state convention in Rock Springs. I had to fight hard for the convention spot. Really,...

My first Democratic Party county convention was 2004 -- a decade ago. I showed up as a Dennis Kucinich delegate primed for bear dove. I had...

This news from Laramie County Democrats : On Friday,  February 21 at Suite 1901 in downtown Cheyenne, 6-8 PM, is the Annual  Democrats   ...

My fellow Wyoming prog-blogger Jeran Artery at Out in Wyoming will be posting this week about his experiences as a delegate at the Democrat...

It was too bad that many thousands of Democratic Party volunteers and supporters didn't get to hear President Obama's acceptance s...

Cheyenne's Jeran Artery from Wyoming Equality is a delegate to the Democratic Party National Convention in Charlotte. He's being in...

Chris Cillizza on The Fix at the Washington Post parses the speechifying winners and losers at the DNC at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blo...

Linda Stowers, chair of the Laramie County Democrats, sends this invitation:   Come join us on Thursday night to see and listen  to Pres...

From Bob Lynch of Americans for the Arts: Madeleine Albright, Gov. Quinn, Bernie Williams, and Mayor Kevin Johnson will speak at the Arts...

An AP story by Julie Pace in this morning's Denver Post said that Democratic Party officials are concerned that Bank of America Stadiu...

To my readers: You may have noticed that I did quite a bit of posting last week about the Republican National Convention in Tampa without ...