Pre-Super Tuesday Presidential poll

To come back to this, that's the other big worry that the mainstream Dems have. They saw the Republicans fail to stop Trump before he turned into a juggernaut that they couldn't stop. I think that's the biggest reason that you suddenly see people bowing up and resisting Sanders now. If he's not stopped real damn soon, he can't be.

 

Cabinet seats, if they want, I'm sure. All are decently qualified, insanely qualified compared to the current cast of idiots. And they'll be going in with the objective of making their departments work, instead of dismantling them.

 

It may already be too late but we’ll know for sure tomorrow. To clarify, I support Sanders because I like his agenda, but I do understand some of the concerns about him as the nomination. I hope Democrats will rally behind the eventual nominee, whomever it is.

 

Helluva 24 hours in the Dem primary. Don’t remember anything quite like it since I tuned in during the early 90s.

If Biden can come close to a 50-50 delegate split on ST he’ll have a great shot. If he over-performs he could roll.

The clips I’ve seen, Biden is as energized and on-point as I’ve seen him. Hopefully he can avoid Uncle Joe moments for awhile.

Yeah, he’s a gaffe machine, mixes up talking-point stats and (as we know) has trouble finding words because of his stutter.

But he’s a good, decent man. And can be a one-term bridge to a younger, progressive successor.

And he’s a million times better than the orange tied.

 

Just to be clear - when people are saying "brokered convention" all they mean is that nobody will have enough delegates after the first round of voting. Then the superdelegates get to vote in the second round. All members of Congress and the Senate (284), all Democratic governors (28), 30 distinguished party leaders (former Presidents, past chairs) and 438 elected members of state parties and assorted DNC members appointed by the DNC chair. A total of 790, about 16 percent of the total delegates.

 

It’s going to be tough for him, though, unless he can somehow win Texas and make up some ground where Sanders has a double-digit leads in recent polls, because he’s going to get pounded in California. I think if Biden gets close to a split of the delegates, he’ll win at the convention. I just don’t see him doing it.

 

Oh good lord.

 

I don't know. There's a reason the voters in Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada overwhelmingly turned away from Biden. They got a good long look and collectively decided that anyone - the mayor of small city in Indiana, a longtime socialist, a faceless senator with anger issues - was better than him.

Sure, they had the luxury of doing that. But he's got a long troubling history too. So for me, of the two centrists, awful Mike Bloomberg is the less awful choice. And Elizabeth Warren seems like a detail-oriented person who could actually run stuff... when not off in the fantasy-land of passing Medicare for All.

I can completely see someone arguing that Biden is the least awful. But I'll never buy that he's a good candidate.

 

The only homes I've seen with Bloomberg signs are in Belle Meade, a tony mini-municipality in the middle of West Nashville where the old money lives. I'm wondering if these are some of the same homes that had Koch-funded signs protesting mass transit expansion a few years ago.

Because that Trump presidency is working out so well...

 

Let’s not forget about Jane Sanders and Burlington College

 

This. This is what I want more than anything. Four years of bland.
It's literally my job to talk about the U.S. Government, and when someone asks me what the president has done lately, I'd love to answer, "Huh? You know, I don't know. Nothing really, I guess."
I want the next incarnation of a political thread to hit about six pages by year three of the presidency.

 

To steal a line from ''Hidden Figures'' . . . "I know. And I know you probably believe that.''

We toppled two governments when Biden was VP. ''Bland'' is more than a silent Twitter feed to me.