Pre-Super Tuesday Presidential poll

I'm not enamoured with her as a politician. But as a published author of books on bankruptcy and as a leading professor of bankruptcy law I'd say she's pretty darn smart. Now could she be a genius at one thing like Ben Carson and an idiot on everything else, like Ben Carson? Sure. But she hasn't done that. As a child who grew up relatively poor and achieved being a lawyer, a law professor at an Ivy League school, an author, a teacher of children with disabilities and a US Senator, I'd say she's pretty darn smart. Her work on banking, consumer protection, law and economics makes her fairly accomplished and credentialled.

Compared with the republican nominee and incumbent, she's incredibly smarter, more learned, more astute and creditialled. I don't consider repeated business failures and bankruptcies and fraud & theft and a role on a TV game show to be serious credentials. Aside from winning the European Theater of WWII, what did Eisenhower really accomplish before being president.?

 

My mother in law sounded exactly like this with regard to Hillary in 2016. She was in her mid-80s, a not terribly well educated depression era Alabama country girl. It really wasn't about Hillary herself, oddly enough 'cause they watched a good bit of Fox. "We don't need a woman President" was her front line position. There are lots of folks like that out there, older people whose one time normal is not just past and gone but has become socially unacceptable.

I loved her, she was a sweet old soul, but she was unreconstructed in her views on a number of things.

 

As an African American core D voter, having one of them be a smug little shit isn't attractive to me.

 

Her research in bankruptcy is disputed. Regardless of its validity, her research doesn't support a claim of legal talent or smarts. It was research.

Her Native American claim is ridiculous and reveals her lack of instinct or an utter cynicism. I have heard people say that Warren didn't claim to be Native American when being hired, but Harvard Law identified her as Native American.

 

That’s a decent reason. Honestly. It’s less about policy than character. I had that belief as a young man. It’s about policy not character. As long as being homosexual isn’t the inkling of a disqualifying trait, a smug little shit is a good reason to choose another candidate. It’s not my reading of Pete, but Amy does seem smug

 

I don’t care about that issue. It doesn’t bother me. Fuck Harvard for even having racial identifiers

 

Gay "lifestyle," huh?

 

I think it fits both of them at times, moreso Pete. I was curious of how Amy would handle her nice showing in New Hampshire considering how polling was shit everywhere else. And instead of really trying to gain some traction with Nevada and South Carolina voters she took a victory lap, went on Bill Maher and finished sixth.

Pete also took a couple victory laps and somehow convinced himself that Iowa and New Hampshire mattered so he stopped working. I actually was interested in Pete early and then he kept opening his mouth and became less impressive each time. I don't know that he can convey a genuine emotion.

 

I’ll vote for blue against Trump anyway, and my state’s primary isn’t until the middle of spring, so I haven’t paid too much attention to this.

To me, it’s a waste of energy to look up candidates right now because they may not even be in the race by the time my state votes. When the time comes, I’ll do some research on whoever’s left.

 

She prefers the lifestyle in which a man and woman get married, pump out as many children as possible and fail to take definitive action upon discovering that one of their children has molested his younger siblings.

 

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I don’t dismiss any of your comments, there’s just a lot working against Bloomberg, IMO. Aside from his racist, sexist, misogynistic past, which he acknowledges, he’s smug and, frankly, kind of an ass, and has been a Democrat all of two minutes. Sounds a lot like the guy we have in the WH now.

I don’t trust that Bloomberg will reverse much of the damage Trump has done and it’s not at all a stretch to say that he’s completely out of touch with the considerable issues facing the working class, which is getting crushed in this country. Bloomberg doesn’t even have a strong base of supporters, because he hasn’t been campaigning, so he’d get absolutely destroyed by Trump in a general election.