Problem is, a bad placing in NH makes the job even harder in NV. And it's a caucus!
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US PoliEra 2020 |OT 2| Dershowitz says "Quid Pro Quo on the Go?" [See Staff Post]
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Problem is, a bad placing in NH makes the job even harder in NV. And it's a caucus!
Even if Bernie didn't win on the error fixes would be weird for Pete to claim a strange made up unnecessary system that isn't codified into law or the constitution or there at all for any logical reason that somehow gives him the win even though he got less votes means he won when abolishing EC is one of his major platforms
Going to be fascinating to see how Dem House/Senate candidates (in purple/battleground states) will react to Sanders being at the top of the ticket. It may not be a good thing at all from Dems in such states. Equally fascinating will be how Sanders supporters will treat them.
Biden has always been a true Paper Tiger. It's why his polling, and the argument for the downticket upside that so many people bought into, has always been overstated. It is reminiscent, but worse in the way that Biden isn't an Obama level Candidate much less on Hilary Clinton's level.
You don't take chances on candidates with poor instincts and low voter enthusiasm. The arguement for Biden, that we must unify and put our differences aside, has always applied much more to Sanders than Biden. Sanders connects with voters to an increasing degree, and has red hot enthusiasm. If you want people to show up and to fight tooth and nail to unseat Trump? Sanders is the unity Candidate.
I think Buttiegeg said he isn't going to ask to re-canvas the votes after this. I could be wrong on this.
Tomorrow is the deadline to file so we'll see what happens.
Couldn't the government just federally mandate the minimum teacher salary at 60k and then pass a funding bill to provide schools with additional funds to make up the gap between what the school can afford to pay and what the minimum salary would be? That would also be a good solution to bring more teachers to states that otherwise can't afford to pay them well.
None of this is surprising. Of course one fucking second after impeachment was done he would remove him.
I think NH is a lost cause rn for him. But still, a final push could help. Double-edged sword.
I can't believe Biden could be donezo but it's happening. Unfortunately no thanks to Forma. :(
What's actually going to be even more fascinating is if Bernie can ever get above 35% even after some candidates drop out.
I keep thinking there is going to be a last moderate standing+Bernie w/ neither one having control because Bloomberg scooped out 12-15%. Dunno how the party works through that.
I keep thinking there is going to be a last moderate standing+Bernie w/ neither one having control because Bloomberg scooped out 12-15%. Dunno how the party works through that.
Look on the other side. Bend the knee or be ascribed a Never Bernie fake Democrat.
The reality is that, it doesn't matter who the Democratic nominee is, unless the Dems win back control of the Senate, Republicans will stonewall every piece of legislation put forward by Democrats. Bernie, Buttigieg, Biden -- it doesn't matter. If we don't have the Senate, the best we can hope for is executive orders, but something as big as Medicare for All isn't going to be implemented via executive order without being shut down in the courts. Our only hope for stuff like that is Senate control. Smaller stuff like marijuana legalization, gun control studies, declaring climate change a national emergency, etc., could all be done via executive order. All the other pie-in-the sky promises any candidate makes isn't going to pass unless Dems have control of all three houses.
Biden is just... bad at campaigning. His rallies are boring, he sucks in debates, he can't fundraise for shit, he can't handle criticism (who the fuck tells people to vote for someone else in an election?). Three presidential campaigns and he has yet to win a single primary.
Yeah, Biden is a paper tiger. If he could have had a strong showing in Iowa he could have cemented himself the force he tried to be. Now things are up in the air. Maybe this won't matter and Biden crushes it in SC and elsewhere but his campaign certainly won't take it for granted now.
Regarding Sanders being a unity candidate...you have to deal with the fact that a large chunk of Dems will at the very least be uncomfortable with Sanders for a number of reasons. Maybe it is overblown but the conversations I've had with people both old and young have me concerned regarding Sanders.
Wanting to abolish the Electoral College doesn't mean you still don't need 270 to declare victory.
Pete's campaign specifically built an organizing strategy around squeezing as many SDEs as they could out of these less populated rural areas. It's a strategy that worked, if just barely. Not his fault Iowa has these fucking arcane ideas for allocating votes to delegates. You play by the rules you're handed.
Other primaries may bear this out but as of now the only contest we have to go by is Iowa, where Bernie and Pete are basically dead even, so I don't know I feel comfortable thinking Bernie and Bernie alone has this red-hot enthusiasm that no one else can replicate.
that said, I feel like NV could be a gamechanger for his campaign.
The CNN black Democrats focus group basically showed Biden's problem. They all kind of support him solely because they think that he's probably the most electable. Only a single person chose to support him in the primary because the only thing he brings to the table is the nebulous concept of electability. All the other candidates either offer the same thing, but better, or offer more of what people actually want.
Dude, what if Vindman is finding this out right now and finding out he's being fired in the morning?
Petemaggedon.
Biden support has basically been "I support the moderate front runner".
Now he might not be that guy.
hop on this train y'all. If I know anything about America is that a democratic socialist isn't gonna win. It's gonna be Pete
Oh I know none of it matters without the senate, and that everything possible to block is going to be blocked anyway. That's actually my biggest concern/complaint about Sanders as the nominee. It's not that he'd personally be bad at the job, it's that he'd be unable to drag enough senate seats in for a majority. Subsequently he'd accomplish next to nothing of the big stuff he talks about.
I've entirely written off stuff like single payer which you couldn't get passed with like 70 dem seats. Just getting any majority at all should be the priority. That whole Socialism brand thing is not something that you want to try to make your winning message in purple states. The only reason I'd be remotely content to settle for Biden is because he is absolutely the best shot at getting the senate. Sanders wouldn't even get a cabinet confirmed if McConnell was in charge.
Bernie Sanders is holding steady at 24 percent, but Buttigieg is up four points over last night with 23 percent, a virtual tie in a survey with a margin of error of 4.4 percent.
Elizabeth Warren takes over third place with 13 percent, and Joe Biden slips to fourth with 11 percent.
Mayor Pete's gains don't seem to be coming at the expense of Sanders, whose numbers haven't changed much all week. Instead, Buttigieg seems to be attracting registered Democrats. And his biggest gains appear to be raided from key backers of Warren and Biden.
Pete could definitely win this if he got Amy and Bloomberg to drop out and endorse him.
The issue is Amy absolutely hates Pete.
If that holds, Warren is probably finished after NH.
People wanted Vice-President Biden, not candidate Biden. His message is all wrong. Instead of trying to go back to a place we can't go to, instead he should have been talking about winning super big and forcing a Republican minority into a never-ending series of bad situations while using the regulatory apparatus to dismantle their extraparty institutions .
Biden's collapse was always a matter of when, not if. But then I counted Bernie out in a competitive field too, thinking people who didn't like him would already be coallesing around one or two others.
Issue for Pete is the moment he steps into NV or more importantly S.C., he's going to get clobbered. Dude's got like negative black support. Like that shit might as well be in the basement. Sooooo where does it go?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Amy goes after Pete. Anyone paying attention can see she doesn't like him.
Wouldn't it be great if we had started in a majority black state or one with at least some diversity? Cause this shit is truly ridiculous.
The inexperienced attacks definitely work and he's gonna be getting hammered from all sides on it.
"Legislation doesn't excite me." - Bullock, announcing his candidacy for President and addressing why not the Senate.
Time to learn to get excited?
Come on Bullock, you're the only one who can win, you stupid idiot
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