If this is the only takeaway from 2016 then it's clear nobody is prepared to beat Trump in 2020.
There's a reason the ACA still hasn't been repealed. It's really hard to take something away from people after giving it to them. A rightward push after a potential MC4A pass is still a massive net gain because anybody who votes to repeal it is not getting reelected, D or R.
why would Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Cylburn and the gang support a non-Democrat as the Democratic nominee?
You're referring to my post, and I was saying that caucuses are unrepresentative of the locations they take place in and I never once said that Bernie didn't have POC. I was just repeating something I've been saying this entire primaries: caucuses are disenfranchisement by the very nature of being caucuses.
I know, and I'm worried about that. But I will still take it over the dumbass up top right now. I've had too many depressive episodes over our current state with him in power, I can't do it.
So you think black voters came out and voted for him in a massive wave because "he's the last candidate available who won't meaningfully try to change our nation's wealth inequality or interventionist foreign policy"?
I don't understand posts like this
If only Bernie was Obama's vp. What was he thinking?
Thank you! It's so ridiculous and annoying. Polls are 100% certainty when it comes to Bernie beating Trump, but the same exact polls that say Biden will beat Trump are incorrect. Makes so much sense..
It just further solidifies that this is sadly just a game to so many people.
I would struggle to say Biden's run a great Campaign during these primaries.
Actually Bernie just forgot that when he said he won working class voters in South Carolina by big numbers.
I don't disagree. I just feel a lot of people will either not vote or just vote Trump cause if you are voting for more of the same, why change?
You don't think him having been Obama's VP had anything to do with it?
Once everyone realizes that the fight isn't really against Trump or Republicans, but the structure of business power in politics, then you will get your change. Democrats are just as guilty as Republicans in this regard.
That's just the tip of the iceberg too. the general is gonna be nasty.
"What do we do about that" has been the problem for the Dems for the past 50+ years, because it's been THE thing keeping them from political power. The populace getting more metropolitan/educated actively helps fight that as both those things assist the party with getting power in the House on a national level, but the problem is that the Senate and EC don't benefit the Dems from those changes (yet) to the same degree because of the demographics differences, which became unfortunately clear in 2020. The (bad) solution besides waiting for the EC PV compact to come online is to add more states to the Senate to try and compensate for this, but to even do that you have to fight and win the uphill battle in national elections.
Polls aren't 100% certain either way, last election proved that.
