the sniderman
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Current Affairs 2020 Democratic Primary
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Middle finger from our friend incoming haha
Everton1990
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Very nice
the sniderman
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joe is the man if anyone can joe can.
Back on topic thought this was an interesting article.
news.virginia.edu
Larry Sabato Discusses Super Tuesday Results, the Race Ahead – and the Secret Service
The UVA Center for Politics’ chief said that former Vice President Joe Biden’s resurgence on Tuesday was almost unprecedented, and set up a two-man race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Good read.Back on topic thought this was an interesting article.
Larry Sabato Discusses Super Tuesday Results, the Race Ahead – and the Secret Service
The UVA Center for Politics’ chief said that former Vice President Joe Biden’s resurgence on Tuesday was almost unprecedented, and set up a two-man race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
This piece of it stood out.
"Bernie, if he is the nominee, would in many ways be the Democratic mirror of Donald Trump – keeping his base as excited and angry as possible to get massive turnout. For him, the question is, can he solve this age-old question of getting young people registered to vote and to the polls?"
Martin Alvito
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I'm not sure that the wailing and gnashing of teeth over which soon-to-be-octogenarian faces Trump is all that justified. I realize that this will be controversial, but hear me out.
From a domestic policy standpoint, it doesn't much matter who wins a given party's primary. Whoever becomes president is still dealing with the same Congress, and the president is just one of many veto points on any given piece of legislation. You need a full party switch rather than an intra-party one for the switch to matter in most polarized configurations. As an example, if you're getting Medicare-for-all because the votes in Congress are there, you're getting it with Sanders' support or over Biden's objections. But Trump can and will block anything short of the override supermajority.
Now, foreign policy is a whole different matter, and the ideology of appointmented officials can shift substantially due to such a presidential switch (eg: Reagan never appoints Souter). Selecting the nominee is thus not a purely tactical, win-the-general choice. But if you're making that call on the legislative package the candidate is running on, you're probably doing it wrong unless that candidate is named Ronald Reagan (who broke all the rules, thus proving them).
From a domestic policy standpoint, it doesn't much matter who wins a given party's primary. Whoever becomes president is still dealing with the same Congress, and the president is just one of many veto points on any given piece of legislation. You need a full party switch rather than an intra-party one for the switch to matter in most polarized configurations. As an example, if you're getting Medicare-for-all because the votes in Congress are there, you're getting it with Sanders' support or over Biden's objections. But Trump can and will block anything short of the override supermajority.
Now, foreign policy is a whole different matter, and the ideology of appointmented officials can shift substantially due to such a presidential switch (eg: Reagan never appoints Souter). Selecting the nominee is thus not a purely tactical, win-the-general choice. But if you're making that call on the legislative package the candidate is running on, you're probably doing it wrong unless that candidate is named Ronald Reagan (who broke all the rules, thus proving them).
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this thread had quite a turn after super tuesday, miss its peaceful and calm version with lots of intellectual posts
Can you imagine if we get a brokered convention!
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Ditto. Funny enough there’s a single poster different to the thread’s usual makeup.
Could be a coincidence, but.....
I imagine it would be the current affairs equivalent of going 3-0 up against Liverpool and losing 4-3 after a series of Jordan Pickford howlers
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Tulsi Gabbard still in there with ONE delegate.
setting up that third part spoiler run to hand the White House to Trump is hard goddamn work
setting up that third part spoiler run to hand the White House to Trump is hard goddamn work
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