I don’t want to minimize anyone’s concerns (Biden wasn’t even in my top 8 12 at the beginning of this process), but I think your percentage figure is wildly inaccurate.
Anyways and surprisingly, I feel good this morning.
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Ok Boomer. 
I read that he had 7 paid staffers. Only 351 people caucused in Samoa. Literally 2% of the caucus goers were on Bloomberg’s payroll.
He took a few 2nd places in some Massachusetts towns including some of the most affluent: Weston, Dover, Hingham, Cohasett, and Duxbury. Insert joke about the upper crust here. Bloomberg’s 3rd places were a mixed bunch which included mill towns like Fall River, New Bedford, Chicopee and Southbridge and Trumpy suburbs of mill towns - Agawam (Springfield), Dracut and Tewksbury (Lowell/Lawrence), Swansea (Fall River), West Bridgewater (Brockton).
My favorite results were the tiny (year-round population of 76) town of Gosnold (the Elizabeth Islands off the coast of Falmouth). Dems - Three way tie with 3 votes each - Pete/Liz/Joe. R’s - Weld 4 votes to Trump 3 votes. Republicans in Pelham, a very progressive town near Amherst, gave Weld a 10 - 7 victory.
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Same here about a Biden/Harris ticket. I know if he’s elected Biden will want to recreate the same kind if close partnership that Obama had with him. A wingman, not window dressing. And no sitting president would be politically foolish enough to say he wouldn’t seek a second term in advance, but it will be on his mind. So I think who he picks will be someone to be set up for the 2024 election. After 4 years as a visible VP I can see Harris pulling that off. Plus, he owes the black political heavyweights bigtime, and they have been quietly lobbying for Harris as his VP since he got in. Biden always believes in taking care of allies and paying his political debts. It’s one possibility.
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I’m a senior Gen-X’er, please (ok, 55 is not super-close to 60, but it’s feeling like it lately).
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I’m in the same grey area as you (pun intended).
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I wish folks would stop lumping all Sanders supporters together. It’s super annoying.
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Hmm… Booker was to? Harris was to tough on crime and female. Amy was to mean, and Warren was to shrill. So 30-40% collected around the safe bet 3 time looser Joe Biden. So Trump had more of an impact then the candidates in the Primary.
What could go wrong?
But where do you live in the meantime?
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To me it was less about Bernie collapsing than it was Biden regaining consciousness.
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As a Warren supporter and Massachusetts resident, I agree with you and @khyber900. If, as it appears, she won’t be on the top of ticket, I’d rather her be the Chair of her committees in the Senate. She has 4 more years in her term.
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I have been hoping for Senator Amy since she announced. She is the true opposite of Trump in temperment and her approach to politics. Having said that I voted for Biden in MN yesterday. This is bigger then my personal preferences and Biden needed to win MN to show he wasn’t jsut doing well in the south.
Bernard’s revolution has dried up over night, beaten by a guy with no money and no org. All of K900’s talk was in fact the reality. Looking back Bernard never got the numbers he got in 2016 and he had less competition then.
Full speed ahead to November. Speaker NastyNancy has 400 bills to send to Majority Leader Schumer and President Biden in January. Time to start fixing America.
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Befitting, since Sanders himself is super annoying.
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To be fair, there are two sets of Bernard’s Revolution. Berners, folks who can’t see his flaws and see conspiracy at every setback. Then there are folks who treat him as any other politician they like or don’t like instead of the messiah the Berners think he is.
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I would have no problem with that ticket either. The main point in my post was that the dem party as well as the nation is being led out of the woods by suburban women who have been coming out in overwhelming numbers since off year elections in 2017 and continue to do so. The numbers in Fairfax county and in VA generally last night were unimaginable. African Americans likewise have been coming out in big numbers in 2018 and again in 2020. Right now these two groups are the driving force behind the revival of the dem party and this needs to be recognized.
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Yes, we all need to remember this when people complain that the “dems haven’t done anything.” They’ve passed a huge amount of legislation that a majority of people would want. The republican Senate majority leader has refused to bring any of it to the floor, much less to a vote.
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Thanks for that–I’d heard her name before but didn’t know much about her.
She’d be a good fit for Biden, it appears.
ETA: I confess to being a bit Texas-centric in my thinking, chiefly because, well, Texans tend to be Texas-centric in their thinking . . . and because of my admitted ignorance about some other possible picks.
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If you wish Senator Warren or Bernard shoulda won cause they have the more progressive policies read HR1 and take heart. Biden will sign that if we get 51 Dem senators. That law would change politics for the better in our nation forever.
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