Democratic Presidential Primaries & Caucuses |March OT| Last Tuesday was 1000 years ago, old news no one cares about (Discussion Guidelines in OP)
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exactly the cause of my warren anger. the past is the past but she can make up for it if she does this right
Biden just showed he could win Massachusetts without warren so I'm not sure what having her as VP would do for him
Is it possible Warren drops, endorses Biden, and then gets picked as VP so Biden can cozy up to the progressive bloc?
Extremely possible, and IMO, would be the best move for both.
Yup, if she drops right now and endorses Biden, she has no leverage. Biden won her state.
Bernie+Warren could have some leverage though.
There's no way tbh, Biden and Warren dislike each other and I don't see the Biden camp giving so much importance to the progressives.
Would be a sound pick though, but Hillary should have picked Warren too and we know how that went.
Thank you, I tried to use Biden's website but even that I didn't think was too great at laying out his positions. It is good to know as well that Biden quietly includes nuclear energy in his climate/energy plan, something I don't think Sanders nor Warren do. Guaranteed housing for those leaving prison is pretty impressive, do we know if he has tried to limit voting restoration to nonviolent offenders? His education and loan plan is something I think could be better, marijuana too of course. Depending on who his VP is/how the rest of his campaign goes I can see some of these positions getting bolder
Biden winning Minn., Mass, and Texas in one night should give him a boost, but i could see it cooling down a bit with the 7 day gapPolitico says a recent Detroit news poll taken before super Tuesday had Biden up 7 points. And that Biden was the preferred candidate of by 20% for absentee ballots. Will be interesting to see if Biden gets the same bounce from Super Tuesday as he did from SC.
‘Biden can finish Bernie off in Michigan’
The next big state on the primary calendar is looking dicey for Sanders.www.politico.com
but its likely Biden's to lose at this point, a lot of the upcoming primaries are rough ones for Bernie
It's not an indictment on the majority of people who would have good reason to protest, and doing so with the best of intentions.
But yes, I think a contingent of the my-way-or-the-highway online exhibitionists would want something for Instagram and Twitter.
Have you ever actually been to protests before, or are you just talking out of your ass?
I would honestly be excited for it. If he said Warren was for sure VP then I'd honest to god be tempted to switch my vote to Biden for the primary.
Fuck, I thought you said Biden/Warren. Was thinking that since it was the latest news she was also talking to Biden.
Honestly if either of them secures Warren VP I'd vote that.
I messed up. Currently I'm a very very likely Sanders voter. If Biden grabbed Warren VP and support of the wealth tax or something I'd probably swap over.
But if Bernie got her I'd probably stay.
Good versus Democrats doesn't mean good against Trump. What good does it do if the votes that go to Biden won't help him win a general election?
But it's so much more than that. Bernie has shown a distinct unwillingness to work with his colleagues or build alliances to achieve common goals during his tenure as a senator. Not to mention spending a several years campaigning on the claim that every Democrat that does not specifically align with you is part of the *establishment" and therefore an enemy is generally not a great way to win endorsements.
beto could help with latinx voters and maybe might net him texas
Biden is a terrible candidate and I have million fucking things to do that are better than voting for someone as dumb as him. I live MA so what does it even matter? But whatever ignore that keep calling people "weak willed" that's gonna get people side with you.
Bernie can't mobilize the voters it seems. Biden is the better candidate.
Or how about not some rich millionaire fuck and someone who actually cares about working class?
I too love to decry "pathetic, performative crying / fake, cynical anger" while making up an imaginary cohort of people politically engaged enough to protest yet simultaneously not engaged enough to vote so I can (performatively) attack them.
If Biden loses it will be because he won't have done enough to drive engagement among normal people who are working all day rather than engaging politically in their free time, not because a scattering of people concentrated in safe D states don't turn out.
biden is gonna pick someone that will net him something
either a state or a lot of support
i could see him reaching out to warren, but like i said before, i dunno if she'd be up to it
in the end it'll probably end up being a safe pick aimed at helping him win a swing state
either a state or a lot of support
i could see him reaching out to warren, but like i said before, i dunno if she'd be up to it
in the end it'll probably end up being a safe pick aimed at helping him win a swing state
I think this would have the potential to be an incredibly strong ticket, but I've been saying all along that Beto/X or X/Beto could be strong.
Beto does. :)
Yeah, if she could negotiate herself a cabinet position, or even the vice presidency, then she would lend him credibility with left wing voters while also guaranteeing someone on the inside to more forcefully push for more progressive legislation.
Going with Bernie is very likely her just shutting herself out of a position of influence. But this assumes she has the leverage to get something big from Biden, which I don't know she does. She has the leverage to get pretty much anything she wants out of Bernie, though.
Unless Tuesday was just a total fluke, and demographic preferences and turnout are
very, very different in the majority of other states, I just don't see how Bernie pulls this one out. Even with 100% of Warren's voters, something he's not getting.
counterpoint: bernie just released an ad about how much he liked working closely with barack obama
Beto's gun stance loses the election. It sucks but its true.
Beto would be great, exciting pick. Could help swing Texas, Arizona, or Florida blue.
Are you seriously suggesting The Intercept is funded by Russia? Wtf is this garbage?
It's ultimately up to that district to remove them. Open primaries are THE thing keeping guys like that barely afloat.
better things aren't possible!!!!!!™
everything is russia, comrade.
Beto "damn right we're going to take your guns" wouldn't help in the general at all lol, even though I like the guy a lot.
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