In the old days there was, and probably still is even in this age of “breaking news”, a hierarchy of news alerts from the Associated Press, when the AP and its competitor news services (called wire services back in the day) were the breakers of breaking news.
The levels of urgency in the alerts were associated with the number of times bells on the wire teletypes would ring to signal them.
Ok, let’s take stock and attempt to keep track of who’s running for the Democratic nomination for president or yet might run now that it’s late January 2019 – a situation that changes almost daily and will for a while more.
Below find a list of those mentioned here in Part I of this continuing series — declared already or mentioned as being interested in running back in October 2018 or at least being mentioned by others as potential candidates. It is modified here to remove three who have announced they will not run and to add a few who lately mentioned themselves.
But first, what are highlights of what’s happened since October as far as finding the next Democratic nominee for president?
Peeling the Onion 