The field narrows: The Post Super Tuesday presidential poll and discussion

[garrow]

It says a lot that Trump was behind with Catholic voters even in a match-up with Bernie. He was 11 behind Biden when this poll was taken. You think about where Catholc voters are crucial - it bodes well for him. Trump beat Clinton with Catholic voters in 2016 52-45, best showing by a Republican in 20 years.

Trump trails Democratic challengers among Catholic voters: poll

And that was after he referred to the Eucharist as "my little cracker."

 

[Webster]

Washington was a huge Bernie state in 2016 and is a toss up with 2/3 of the votes in. Due to the vote by mail, lots have already voted before Super Tuesday so 35% of the votes counted so far didn't go to Bernie or Biden. Of that, Mike, Pete and Amy take 20% and at least 95% of those votes would have gone to Joe. Figure even if Warren (12%) skewed 2/3 to Bernie (and that is very generous to him), Biden still wins by 20 points head to head.

He is going to get curb stomped in Florida and doesn't have any great states coming up. This is over and it is basically only when Bernie decides to give up the fight.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Another part of it was that some of his supporters are very fiercely partisan in favor of their couple of issues. Any nominee who didn't emphasize those programs was an unacceptable middle of the road hack. Of course, that was mostly expressed against Biden, but while Joe has his problems, anyone else who wasn't Bernie was pretty much going to be just as unacceptable.

That's why people who automatically ashumed Warren voters would go to Bernie were wrong
NOBODY got trashed worse by the Sandernistas than Warren

 

[Alma]

AOC already pivoting. (Which is smart.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...8e5594-6245-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html

"When things start falling short, I don't think seeking out who to blame, instead of identifying how to adapt, is the smart thing to do. I think we have to identify, 'Okay, how do we bring in people?' It's like when I ran in my primary, I didn't win only with supporters of Senator Sanders. We built a broad coalition on the same principles."

I've respected AOC for sticking with Sanders instead of doing the politically cheap thing and sidling up to Warren months ago out of identity politics solidarity. It's a piece of the tale that Warren - and her media cheering section - has pretty rigorously ignored in final days/aftermath of her campaign.

But she's going to get a small reckoning, soon, and perhaps from Warren herself.

 

[Driftwood]

I had an 18-year-old telling me this week how 2024 was going to be AOC's year for the presidency.
I'd say that's a little speculative to say the least.

 

[UNCGrad]

That's why people who automatically ashumed Warren voters would go to Bernie were wrong
NOBODY got trashed worse by the Sandernistas than Warren

I was going to be a Warren voter who shifted to Biden in NC after SC's primary. My wife was, and did, the same.
I know of at least four others in our friends group in NC who did the same. Granted, insanely small sample size, of course, but I don't think our little group is unique.

 

[jlee]

Hopefully that'll be the end of that bench in the campaign and she can go accept a job laundering out Fatfork's jock straps with her tongue.

This is sexist garbage.

 

[Starman]

This is sexist garbage.

If Tulsi was a 55 year old male, she'd have been howled off the national stage years ago. The only reason anybody at all pays her any attention whatsoever (most emphatically Fatfork Dumpf) is that she's a surf bunny who looks pretty good in a wetsuit. She needs to get forking lost.

 

[CD Boogie]

If Tulsi was a 55 year old male, she'd have been howled off the national stage years ago. The only reason anybody at all pays her any attention whatsoever (most emphatically Fatfork Dumpf) is that she's a surf bunny who looks pretty good in a wetsuit. She needs to get forking lost.

Ya seen her up close? Um, I don't see the attraction.

 

[Starman]

Ya seen her up close? Um, I don't see the attraction.

She's relatively good looking among presidential candidates. Although I don't think Klobuchar or Warren have been particularly trying to sell themselves as sex bombs.

And remember, Sarah Palin was semi decent looking in 2008, but has hit the wall hard hard hard in the years since.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Ya seen her up close? Um, I don't see the attraction.

How dare you! She's a veteran!

 

[CD Boogie]

How dare you! She's a veteran!

Yeah, a veteran of acne, just like me.