We’ve seen that movie before…
As a Bernie supporter, I am not blind to the Risks of Bernie’s candidacy…
I fear too many are blind to the Risks of nominating Joe.
Reasonable people can disagree who is more risky and how but given all of the variables, I’m not sure anyone can say with any assurance who is more risky.
Anyone who does is projecting.
Biden has to win S.C. to stay viable. If he wins, he can campaign in a few key states before Tuesday. He literally has no other choice until more campaign contributions come in.
It might be his excuse, but Sherrod Brown said something about his decision not to run like he didn’t want it badly enough so he was not sure he could do it (just paraphrasing). Impressive.
As for Biden, many people seem to think he’s doing it to save the country blah blah blah, but I think some people do want that position all their life, however old they are.
Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your preferences this seems to be a theme.
“Biden might be taking those voters for granted,” she said.
A large part of his electability argument was based on winning back wwc. The reasoning is that if he could keep HRC’s level of minority support and win back wwc, he’d win against ttump. I think that affected black people’s decision. They knew the discrimination black candidates will face. There’s his connection with black community, but there’s also the factor of playing it safe.
He may be counting on South Carolina, but I thought his argument was that he’d have broad appeal once he got past the lily-white/low participation states. If he’s banking everything on SC, he may be in serious trouble.
Pre-emptive reference to assumed “Bernie-bots” won’t earn Biden more support. In fact, it seems an attempt to deflect from the topic of whether Biden’s campaign is underdeveloped. To that point: Democratic primaries assign delegates proportionately. It’s definitely NOT about “winning.” If he’s strong in a state, he should be working for a landslide. If he’s weak, he should be trying to steal a few more delegates. HRC made exactly the same mistake in 2008.
I thought of that too.
I hope I still have health care in 2021 so I can treat the ulcer that 2020 is giving me.
I’m no purity pony, but God it’s come to this?
I am pretty angry with fellow voters right now. Again I ask, why didn’t “moderates” coalesce behind any rando white guy like Inslee, or someone decent like Booker? Why won’t “moderate” and “lefty” just get behind Warren (as Josh said, she would so obviously be the best president)? And that makes it so so so much worse, and feel like that much more of an insult, that y’all flipped her off.
I’m going to now go back to looking for jobs in Canada (I’m dual) and sub Saharan Africa (I can do some good). I’m out. Thanks for nothing, “moderates.”
It doesn’t bother you at all that so many people voting for Bernie are Republicans ratfucking? Or I guess, you don’t believe that. Whatever man.
From my perspective, obviously not in it, but observing from the distance like the rest of us, and given that I tend to look much more closely at how campaigns organize and run, Buttigieg’s campaign is head and shoulders above anyone elses.
That isn’t and endorsement of him as a candidate or ignoring some screw ups he has committed personally, but in terms of the things you want to see a campaign doing, his has pretty consistently been hitting the marks.
Warren is probably number 2 on that list. My limited experience though, has been that they seem to lack a lot of experience…you don’t need everyone experienced(they are gonna get it), but it certainly helps to have some experience to start with.
Sanders is doing some interesting things, but the aggressive assaulting nature of too many of his people creates big problems. And I don’t believe its “just a few bad apples”. It seems pretty clear its a top down driven culture.
I just gave my impression of Biden’s campaign, so I won’t repeat it. But this article doesn’t really shock me, though some of the details do make me raise my eyebrows.
I will say the one that has me the most puzzled, however, is Steyer. The man has been funding a ground game via NextGen for years. Why hasn’t he put them into play?
At this point I would love to be able to take a second look at Booker, or Harris.
He’s always run this way, Biden. He just ambles along, assuming he’s popular everywhere because he’s popular in Delaware. And it doesn’t stand out as much after Trump’s 16,000 lies but he’s extremely casual about the truth. He makes up stuff to make himself look good and lies to get out of sticky questions. He’s just not a great candidate. He’s somewhat popular, sure. He’s a relic, you might say, of a more normal time. But running for president is tough and he’s not working up to the usual standard. If this whole election goes wrong I think we can officially put him down as not having been helpful. Won’t look so good for whatever legacy he might have wanted.
This I agree with. Who the eff knows. But they both are bleak.
“Arkansas was, in my opinion, going to be a default Biden state,” Gray said. “He hasn’t been here.”
Over confidence in being “the Front Runner” has gotten Democrats in trouble before.
I think Bernie’s ratfucking voter bloc is quite small, but there are still plenty of things to be nervous about with a Bernie nomination.
I hear you. (I think we’re of an age.) But here’s an interesting take from a Gen-Xer. (I think she’s a Bernie fan - since she seems to aim her advice at Bernie.) I find anyone who discounts Boomers (Even without resorting to ‘OK Boomer’) annoying. But she has some interesting insights.
You mean he wasn’t arrested in South Africa with Nelson Mandela?
It far from clear that Warren’s ultimate strategy isn’t to eventually pledge all her support to Bernie in the end.
We’ve never received any word on what the Sanders/Warren pre campaign meeting was about…merely the “he said/she said” argument about one phrase concerning the electability of women. I am pretty sure they didn’t discuss just that topic for 2+ hours.