Anyone else read this as exhorting his “supporters” to game the system and break up their donations into multiple, supposedly “separate” donations? (Like in 2016 with the infamous 220K donations in one hour, ALL of which were exactly $25, all from the same IP subnet?)
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The always pro-Israeli TPM attacks Sanders for being negative when he wasn’t!! Does this mean Sanders is not the Zionists choice??
Why is a non Democrat even permitted to run in the Democratic presidential primary?
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I hate to tell you this, then, but it’s style that wins elections, not policy.
If policy won, Al Gore and John Kerry would have been presidents.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) broke with the general friendliness that has characterized how the 2020 Democratic contenders have spoken about each other so far, sending out a fundraising blast where he calls Beto O’Rourke’s $6.1 million first-day haul “bad news.”
The subject line reads: “Bad news: Beto outraised us. Good news: we probably had a lot more donations.”
Fer chrissakes, I expect better at TPM, I come here to avoid clickbait and mischaracterization. This is a simple fundraising message to his contributors and others on his contact list and says that it’s bad news for his campaign that Beto was able to raise so much so much so soon, and he’s asking for more. It certainly doesn’t rise to the level of bad blood.
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if I was a betting person. I don’t think I would put my money on a tired old horse; i’d go with the vigorous colt.
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troll alert!
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Exactly. Maybe it’s not “news,” but it’s bad.
and I’ll take style and coherent speech over Trump any day of the week
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That would be smart money.
He’s a phenomenon on the campaign trail. Young voters in particular love him. And women.
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Huh?
Shirley you can do better than that.
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As we used to say back in the Usenet days, * plonk *
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That goes without saying. I think we can set the bar a little higher than basic coherence.
And did we mention
No Corporate or Pac money
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Why the Democratic enthusiasm for their candidates (even if they are not Bernie) is bad news? Why not to have a positive fundraising message, say like this:
“There are many great candidates in this race. We need more money to spread our positive message and compete!”
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Probably no one who isn’t already predisposed against Senator Sanders.
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You’re quite correct that there are a lot of people who are predisposed against Sanders. FWIW, I lay most of this at the feet of Sanders.
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I’m honestly surprised O’Rourke raised so much money on his first day, where was that headline?
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Well…
If that were to end up true, it would mean compared to Trump, Beto is still man of substance.
Actually any given Republican at this point.
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I absolutely hate the horse race nature of our politics, but that seems to be the way the game is played, and I cannot change it. I would prefer that people didn’t approach it as if it were a professional sporting event (but it probably helps that I don’t follow sports, for a very similar reason, even if genuine sporting events are much less consequential to our actual lives).
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