Michael Bloomberg Officially Crams Himself…
“Prince Charming disappointed shoe doesn’t fit. Will try Elizabeth Warren next.”
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Every. Fucking. Time.
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It would help me if I had also downed a fifth of gin. If it were Tulsi, I wouldn’t get past the gin.
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And now this. Looks like Spencer may not have clean hands here either. ETTD.
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what usually screws up a democrats path to victory is well, another democrat
or the new russian election meddling process
even in the old days democrats have pulled that off a lot through my lifetime.
stuck there feet up there own butts.
the powers that be in the democratic party better get it together and super organize a path to beat trump and stick with it till the election.
as in, get on the same page for the right reasons, all of them
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Just when I was so looking forward to having an old rich white knight in tarnished armor hobble up and rescue Amurrikah… you and @castor_troy are such wet blankets.
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I don’t get Nate Silver’s analysis that Bloomberg is hoping for a brokered convention. Why would the party nominate someone who almost nobody is going to vote for in the primaries? Does he think the superdelegates would be that scared, if Warren was getting the most votes? And even if they were, why wouldn’t they throw their support behind Biden?
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Polling just ahead of Tulsi Gabbard, and just behind that The-Rent’s-Too-Damn-High Party guy.
Irish bookmakers currently give better odds on John Anderson’s empty chair from that first Carter-Reagan debate.
(G-d, I’m old.)
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Clint Eastwood’s chair is a shoe-in for it’s VP candidate.
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Point.
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He could buy half the Brazilian rainforest and save it.
He could build solar power stations and wind turbine pillars and power half the country.
He could build hospitals in poorer counties and give care for free and save thousands of lives.
nope. He wants TV cameras trained on him and the freedom to shake hundreds of hands and give his wonderful opinions to the masses, pour out money like wine, and then lose the primary.
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Without commenting on his analysis in particular, one could argue that there are, at present, two sites of power in the corporate Democratic Party: (1) the Obama side and (2) the Clinton side. Consider the possibility that the Clinton side primarily does not want Sanders to be the nominee; whereas the Obama side primarily does not want Warren to be the nominee.
With this framing in mind, even only hypothetically, see what you make of Nate Silver’s (or anyone else’s) analysis of what Mike Bloomberg is doing; and, for that matter, what Deval Patrick is doing.
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I think the theory is, he has enough money to stay in the race till the convention which a lot of others won’t.
But for that to work, he still has to pull down enough delegates to ensure that nobody has 50%+1.
Quite frankly, I think there are several scenarios where that happens without him, and I don’t think he makes it more likely (mainly because I don’t see him getting many…if any…delegates).
In the scenario where we do end up with a brokered convention, what the means is the first count from the floor doesn’t end up with a clear winner (50%+1), then everybody recanvasses, lesser tiered candidates tell their delegates to vote for one of the top spots, and also the superdelegates get to vote in the second round. We keep doing that until someone is the winner.
Usually, however, that brokering occurs before we get to the floor. So, for example, Harris will have already made a deal with Biden or Warren, and her delegates will vote according to what she tells them. So the first vote will most likely declare a winner. (Parties are loath to have a brokered convention happen before the cameras). And superdelegates don’t get a vote in the first pass.
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With Charlton Heston’s cold, dead hands lying on the seat.
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You mean ‘wise’, don’t you?
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Esper asked for Spencer’s resignation after learning that he had privately proposed to White House officials that if they did not interfere with proceedings against Gallagher, then Spencer would ensure that Gallagher was able to retire as a Navy SEAL, with his Trident insignia
.Well isn’t that how the government does business in Trumplandia?
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How’d I get dragged into this?™
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It’s horrific, and will destroy the military. If anyone knows that they can ignore any orders they get, and just run to fox news to plead their case directly to the president…
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Of course it’s horrific, that’s what Trump does, that’s who he is-monstrous. What’s upsetting is that no one will stand up to him.
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