Oh, that’s not to disparage the choice, it’s logical. Just reading the tea-leaves of what we can infer from it.
I don’t hate him at all-- I am Vermont born and raised, voted for him plenty of times, and supported him in 2016.
Just of the opinion that he’s totally the wrong person in 2020 for what we need-- too risky.
I understand why he’s all in on MI but, not only will he need a win it needs to be a big one and, I don’t think it will be a blow out (for either candidate).
I’m more curious as to WA Primary
And what was your sense of things as of, say, October 2016?
As for campaigning in Mississippi versus in Michigan, not only does one have to consider how many delegates one can win in each place, one also has to calculate the expected value of working even now to gain electoral votes in November.
Of course I can’t say what the best decision is for each campaign to make – I leave that to others.
I know, right? Can’t wait to get onto the Sundowner trials!
It would be prudent not to be over-confident of the Sweep prediction. Do so hope but not banking on it. Keep one’s expectations modest.
Not to pat myself on the back, but I called the shit back in May of 2016
Wait … “If the DNC hadn’t rigged the nomination for Hillary”?
Et tu, Brute?
You Bastard. So, it’s all your fault!
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Not my fault, I was just observing and bitching about the potential result, which ended up being exactly what played out.
Though I did, Sanders was supposedly going to win Minnesota in 2020. He didn’t, but that’s supposedly the ‘establishment’s’ fault.
That seems likely, the ceiling and the off sense of things relative to running against Hillary who fairly or not (I think fairly re public persona, not per se the smears) had all the affability on the Big Stage of … an ice queen.
Was tricked into seeing Pink Flamingos.
By children!
We all were.
OK, thanks, that makes me feel better.
Finally, after forty years.
There are very weird people on both sides.
Yup. The DNC was doing everything in their power to make sure that Hillary was safely escorted to the finishing line of the nomination. Everything from colluding with her campaign (as e-mails later proved), to stacking the deck upfront with superdels, to limiting debates, to leaning on lots of other prominent folks to not get in the race…
I hope this didn’t stop you from seeing 200 Motels.
Yeah, the electorate is now “the establishment”. He almost certainly got, more or less, the number of votes he was predicted to get, but candidates dropped out and their votes went to the “establishment”. If they’d stayed in and split the votes he could have claimed a victory on the plurality as he did in Iowa.
