Ever since former Vice President Joe Biden’s fast and decisive campaign resurrection, the momentum has been on his side.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1295889
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1295889
Sanders will lose big today. Then he’ll say it was rigged.
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I can hear the squealing already. Although, not as loud nor as heartrending as 2016.
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Bernie if you lose big please go home quietly.
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Hopefully it’s a big enough win for Biden that people start calling bernie to stop dragging it out and focus on drump. bernie lost either way but would be good if we can move onto the general.
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“Sanders is, as I understand it, somewhat favored,” said Markie McBrayer, assistant professor of political science at University of Idaho. “We don’t have any polls, so we can’t really know too much at this point.”
Is this person on track for tenure?
If not, someone should get on it right away.
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I never expected that we would be down to two soon-to-be octogenarians, so I’m not guessing anything about today’s outcome.
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If anyone doubted that the Democratic Party has no idea what it’s doing …
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O/T and FFS…
Donald is now tweeting that “We need the Wall more than ever!” to protect us from “China Virus”
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It’s just a string of characters to fill up a tweet.
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One possible reason polling was so far off in Michigan in 2016 was that they had switched from a caucus to a primary that year. That made polling very difficult since there was no historical data with which to gauge potential voters. That may be a problem in some of the other states that are having their first primaries tonight (instead of caucuses) though I doubt they’ll mess up Michigan again by so much.
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It is funny how things turned out, but it is what it is.
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Losing sucks, and I won’t rub Sanders supporters’ noses in it.
I was Dean in '04, to the extent of hand-carrying signatures to the Secretary of State’s office to get him on the primary ballot. And then we got spanked. It fucking sucked. Then I crawled over broken glass to vote for Kerry in the general, and I hope all serious Sanders supporters do similar in November.
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Or form a third party ticket for the general and sink Dems.
All the magnanimity in the world won’t stop Bernie fans from stamping their little feet and crying like they just dropped their ice cream cone on a hot summer sidewalk.
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I agree that voters are having their say and that’s the entire point of the exercise.
I guess what I’d like to see is younger people being encouraged and trained to make their way up. We did have younger candidates this time, including women, but instead of being helped by the system they had to fight it – and failed.
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It’s the votes. I don’t see some invisible leadership thumb on the scales.
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What the younger candidates lacked was, in the first instance, money. I’m sure you don’t think the way we fund our campaigns was handed down to Moses on unerasable stone tablets – so if you "don’t see some invisible leadership thumb on the scales,” the question is whether you see “leadership” doing anything to change the system so that it encourages, rather than stymies, younger candidates.
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He intends to expand the wall using all the funding from Mexico that he promised so that it effectively surrounds the United States. Then we’ll need a really big dome too.
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If not today, then next Tuesday.
I don’t expect Bernie to do what’s best for the Democratic party - he’s not a Democrat.
But, please do what’s right for the country. It’s not easy to realize it’s over, get past your disappointment and even anger, and push on with bringing the coalitions together to beat Trump. But, you will be thought of in a much more positive light by many more people than just the Bernie Bros if you do.
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