I try to be realistic about the primary and avoid getting into any team sports mentality over it. Not going all-in to the point where I feel the need to let every jab or snide remark or accusation by another candidate's supporters affect how I feel about that candidate. Tensions are high, the first caucus is here, we're all this big mix of excited and worried and furious about the state of our country. And part of me trying to be realistic about the primary is: while I prefer Warren, I see she's behind in the polls, nationally and in the early states. The momentum's with Bernie. And if everything's still trending this way, it maybe makes more sense to vote for Bernie, because he's got the better shot. And I may end up doing just that. He's been my 2nd choice for along time, far ahead of the other candidates who are still in the race.
But I still can't help feeling like Warren kind of got a raw deal here. Does everyone seriously think that she or the decision makers in her campaign thought putting out the "a woman can't win in 2020" story out there would help her campaign? That she thought "Yes, this is how I'll get progressives to turn from Bernie"? It sounds so much like an attempt to get supporters of both Bernie and Warren mad at each other, to really stick a knife in that divide that had, mostly, been cordial during this campaign. Legitimate differences between candidates, strong feelings for each, but not so heavy on animosity. Now it's all "She's a liar, a snake, was waiting all this time to stab Bernie in the back and make him look sexist. She was never a progressive, she's the same as hillary, biden, she's a centrist, etc." Yet again, I have to couch this in "not all Bernie supporters," because of course it's not all of them. But it's tiring the hatred she gets for something that's a he-said-she-said discussion, and most everyone's just believing the candidate they support already anyway.
That said, I'm not letting this affect my primary vote. I'm just tired.
