2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[Uno Venova]

 

[Mike809]

Weird thing for his supporters to chant

it was at a democratic voter's dinner after the debate i think , so there were supporters from all candidates there. Not just pete.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

it was at a democratic voter's dinner after the debate i think , so there were supporters from all candidates there. Not just pete.

I guess that makes it better? Seems like a bit of an extreme rallying cry IMO.

 

[Mike809]

I guess that makes it better? Seems like a bit of an extreme rallying cry IMO.

wallstreet pete aint a compliment.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

wallstreet pete aint a compliment.

Oh, that makes more sense


I thought perhaps his supporters were trying to channel some pro Wall Street message... which would be strange but not necessarily...

Wall Street isn’t very popular on the left or right

 

[StatUS]

Oh, that makes more sense


I thought perhaps his supporters were trying to channel some pro Wall Street message... which would be strange but not necessarily...

Wall Street isn’t very popular on the left or right

Breh

 

[FAH1223]

Post debate poll in NH

 

[Mike809]

Iowa 2.0

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Breh

Y’all are right

Idk what makes his supporters tick though, I’ve honestly never met one and I’m surrounded by politically active people


I guess better to be safe than sorry


This is a really weird primary

 

[Torrential]

They doing everything in their power to block Bernie from being the nominee

DES MOINES, Iowa — A small group of Democratic National Committee members has privately begun gauging support for a plan to potentially weaken Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and head off a brokered convention.

In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention. Such a move would increase the influence of DNC members, members of Congress and other top party officials, who now must wait until the second ballot to have their say if the convention is contested.

DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Post debate poll in NH

need to get Pete down to single digits

I wonder if Republicans will purposefully boost Pete

 

[mastermind]

An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter

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[Cheddar Biscuits]

More people need to realize this. The only win Democrats have had in almost 25 years now was a black dude from Chicago who talked about universal healthcare. Gore lost. Kerry lost bad. Obama wasn't even the DNC's choice in '08, that was Hillary. And then they finally got her through the primary in '16 and she lost too. The narrative that you need to be a centrist who doesn't stand for anything and doesn't push for any popular policies has been proven wrong time and time again. When you have a clear vision of the future and communicate it with the voter base, people who would have otherwise stayed home show up to vote, and you win.

 

[King Kreole]

What's so disappointing about Warren is that she's absolutely right and had no reason to ever stop talking about these issues. She understands the relationship between capital and racism, she understands how wealth inequality hurts everyone despite hurting different groups disproportionately, and she understands how you can't have freedom in a system where the primary motivator is profit. She understands that simply being pro-choice doesn't mean anything when you support the ability of private health insurers to deny women coverage for abortions, which Hillary supporters never understood. She and Bernie are the only ones running who have even said out loud that these problems are systemic and aren't going to magically go away once Trump is out of office.

So the fact that she then departs from that message every few weeks to tell easily falsifiable lies about not taking money from PACs, or saying Bernie told her women can't be president despite him being the one begging her to run in the first place, or saying that it was okay for her to market herself as POC because her grandfather had "high cheekbones" or whatever that dumb racist shyt she said was, it not only craters her campaign but it delegitimizes the very real and very salient points she makes about everything else along the way. No one can refute anything she says about the failure of private health insurance or the relationship between home ownership and racial wealth inequality. She was on her way to surpassing Bernie in the polls. And now she's about to get passed up by Bloomberg, who doesn't give a shyt about anything, has no coherant vision for the future, and is literally just an accessory to Republicans. That's a loss for everyone, even if you don't support her.

She never claimed Bernie told her women can't be president. And she has unequivocally apologized for her uncritically believing the family lore she was told by her parents. You prefer Bernie, that's fine, but no need to make up shyt. If you believe this sideshow bullshyt delegitimizes all of her points you highlighted in the first paragraph, I question how committed you are to those points in the first place.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]