This is Biden’s Catholic upbringing on display. He imagines that the Bernites are a monastic order. Sort of like the Benedictines, but too lazy to have that long a name for their order.
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Well… They do have challenges in getting other members of the species to date them…
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Vote count in CA is narrowing. Biden is outperforming the projected margin from the exit polls by over 8 points (was predicted to be 15 based on the exit polling, now 7.4 and will continue to drop).
Bernie will likely lose MI by a high single to double digit margin. Chances of it going into the double digits are higher b/c one should assume there will be a Biden bounce from Super Tuesday that current polling has not accounted for.
Bernie will lose MO by the same average margin as he lost TN, AR, OK (19 points). This could be a 25 point margin if a bounce is factored in.
The most fascinating poll was SUSA’s poll in WA, which showed Biden leading Bernie 36-35. The poll had 51% of the electorate as under 45 (that hasn’t happened in a single contest thus far). In addition, it has Biden leading among Latino voters and narrowing the gap among younger voters. It will be a tight race there, but the trajectory looks more like a narrow Biden win, though Bernie could pull it out if early voting margins slow down the Biden e-day surge.
Mississippi will be a wipe out.
Biden will likely double his present delegate margin by Tuesday.
If that happens, there is a decent chance that Bernie bows out before the FL primary to save face. That result will be brutal.
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When, in the last 40 years of his career, has he ever done anything to save face?
He’s going all the way to the convention.
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Yep. This was Biden’s actual message:
“What we can’t let happen is let this primary become a negative bloodbath,” Biden told more than 100 donors, according to Politico. “I know I’m going to get a lot of suggestions on how to respond to what I suspect will be an increasingly negative campaign that the Bernie brothers will run. But we can’t tear this party apart and reelect Trump. We have to keep our eyes on the ball, in my view.”
I know — crazy, right? But let’s run with the Twitterverse instead. Good grief,
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Last time, he had misogyny, the ‘establishment’ dog whistle, the Russians, and a late primary date for California to justify to his people why he should stay in despite getting repeatedly beat worse by HRC than Biden beat him on Super Tuesday.
With CA off the board, there are no states left for him to make big delegate gains. The Russians are shell shocked. Trump is off his game because he’s too busy spreading a pandemic than fighting to contain it. Bernie will start to run out of money. Biden is also a white male and opposing Biden simply won’t have the juice that opposing a woman who was made the nominee with the strong support of black voters did. In addition, Biden’s dominance in rural counties makes it impossible for Bernie to make any type of come back or to claim that working class whites are with him. It’s over. On Tuesday, the Bernie campaign moves into a transition to zombie status, and goes full zombie after the FL primary.
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So, then why the fuck would Biden be so stupid as to risk alienating his supporters by calling them “Bernie Brothers”?
BTW: My wife and daughter and sisters are “Bernie Bros” too.
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Oh, I’m with you on all that, it’s going to be a bloodbath from here on out, given that all of the not-Bernie vote has been consolidated.
Just don’t see Bernie actually dropping out at any time.
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Sander Siblings
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Well, it’s better than referring to them as “snakes”.
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Joe’s trolling: Sanders, Sanders’ silo’d followers, people who think he’s old and out of touch, people who think he’s senile, and Trumpers who think he’s goofy. Nicely done!
But he should have used “Bernie Brox” to tease those of us who find the academic term “Latinx” way too earnest.
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Jeez! With all of the genuinely toxic crap that Trump says on a daily basis, Dems are hand-wringing about Mickey Mouse misstatements like this.
Sometimes I lose patience with all of the “circular firing squad” talk, but this is a great example of some folks being far too sensitive for anyone’s good. For sure, this is the way to beat the Republicans.
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Agree. Schumer took both barrels this week from the GOP the kind of stuff Trump says four times a day. Move on. Move up.
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I guess I don’t really have a problem with this if I get to use the term Biden Brigade or Biden Bandwagon.
I just have to decide which one is more offensive.
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It’s hard NOT to get caught up in the Joe-mentum.
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Strategery.
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It is rather sweet.
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Off topic
My late father preferred the term Hispanic
he felt it more descriptive
He felt the term Latino was a vestige of the Monroe Doctrine and an expression of US hegemony as a not too subtle way to deny Spanish influence on the continent.
I personally don’t mind the term Latino/Latina
Spanish is a gendered language
I LOATHE the term latinx i’d never heard it until I lived in the bay area
It was decided, I guess, at a meeting I wasn’t invited to.
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Who would be so stupid as to think this will matter to Sanders supporters other than those who will complain about Joe Biden regardless of what he says?
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When the Bernie Bros stop their baseless smears on Biden having dementia, then perhaps Biden will slow his roll on the clap back. He isn’t going to take any crap from the Berners, nor should he. The end is coming.
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