Current Affairs 2020 Democratic Primary
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Apparently I've made an impression.
I can see that the best way to neutralize you on the barricades will be to suggest a certain laxness of joined-up thinking.
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Not really but whatever.
Let me put it another way... what would you like her to do -“about an independent PAC spending money on ads? Put out a statement saying she doesn’t want the votes of anyone who saw it?
I’m far from a fan of Bloomberg and think his age/health are a concern (along with those of Biden and Bernie) but this is a seems a gross misrepresentation by the Sanders press sec. You can have stents put in without having suffered a heart attack.
All of them should release far more detailed health records however.
All of them should release far more detailed health records however.
Unexpected (to me at least) that Biden’s non-white support would move to Bloomberg
look at that.
the average polls have Sanders, Biden and Bloomberg in 1,2 and 3
3 white 78 year old men
nuts.
We are 258 days out from the general, less given early voting.
Not trying to be snarky but at what point do you think they matter? Only after the primary has finished?
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Once again on the "Depends" question, Warrenistas show themselves to be optimally sane and magnanimous.
(Also, when the campaign season gets me too excitable, I'm pleased to make use of the Depend™ line of sanitary products.)
Pure arrogance and entitlement to suggest others should drop out from a guy who has yet to win a single delegate or be on a single ballot and who will himself be a significant factor if Sanders wins the nomination
A more positive head to head poll for Bernie (and the rest of the field tbh) although would really like to see the swing state results.
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"Senator Warren’s position hasn’t changed. Since day one of this campaign, she has made clear that she thinks all of the candidates should lock arms together and say we don’t want super pacs and billionaires to be deciding our Democratic nominee."
Does this meet your purity test, @abelard?
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Whatever you think of them (which doesn’t necessarily seem to depend on having actually... you know... listened to them) Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer did a really good segment (starting somewhere around the last half hour) on the latest Pod Save America... definitely worth a listen, whatever your persuasion.
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To be fair, what he is afraid of is EXACTLY how Trump ending up winning the GOP nomination in 2016. He was consistently pulling in his 35% of the votes while leaving the 4-5 other “real” Republicans in the race to divide up the other 65%. Had they managed to consolidate those votes behind a single candidate pretty early on, Trump almost certainly would not have secured the nomination.
However, Bernie obviously doesn’t pose the same existential threat to the country that Trump did/does.
Oh fully agree that Bloomberg is worried that Sanders will win the Dem nomination the same way Trump did the GOP one.
Where I vehemently disagree with him is that the best solution to that is for anyone, least of all a 78 year old with questionable history , to enter late in cycle which further delays consolidation around a non Bernie candidate.
He could have instead decided early on who was a candidate that he could support, Booker perhaps, and worked to increase his name recognition with voters and hope that he became the person who non Bernie voters coalesced around. Instead he prefers the ego trip of a run himself and, in my view at least, leverage his vast wealth into making it a grossly undemocratic one.
yup, bang on, there was a field of more suitable candidates who dropped out due to lack of funding and here's Bloomberg late to the party and shouting the odds.
It's great for Bernie because the whole focus tonight will be on tearing Bloomberg down.
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