Because Bernie's campaign is based on support from millennials and Beto had a stronger pull with that group in Texas than Bernie did.
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2020 Democratic Presidential Primary | OT | Hickenlooper makes it to the debate
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Because Bernie's campaign is based on support from millennials and Beto had a stronger pull with that group in Texas than Bernie did.
I'm interested to see if Beto can go the whole primary without saying anything substantive. It will be tough but I think he's up to the task.
Bernie's been vocal about his stance for years. This isn't news. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...s-death-penalty-should-be-abolished/81209770/
I wasn't trying to suggest that Bernie supported the death penalty before now, at all. I was just pointing out that his response to that particular incident was presented as unique or first earlier in the thread.
The one I posted? It wasn't meant to be presented as unique or first.
Anyone that has to talk around the issue that much just immediately sounds completely full of it. You can clearly and concisely say if you support single-payer healthcare and that you will push for it with all your power if elected. If we have to keep trying to read tea leaves to figure out what Beto concretely supports then he just believes in nothing.
And "no one person, perhaps no one party" can make it happen? Actually no, one party can absolutely make this happen, and that's usually how politics works. There's this weird liberal notion of trying to take all that nasty partisan politics out of, you know, partisan politics. It isn't going to solve anything, especially with this much money in the system. Medicare for all can easily happen if you just get the Democratic Party on the same page, that's all you have to do, the wonks can figure out the rest.
Is this your first presidential election? Charisma is often enough to win the white house.
Meant to say "on Era". The general public would vote for the Cheerio's Bee if they could.
A not so well know candidate should only go up in polling even if it's early. Bernie *never* stopped increasing in polls since April 2015. Kamala has show a decrease in polling since her announcement that put her dangerously close to Warren-tier.
The first 3 debates will be the most definitive moments until Iowa, but we can't deny that Kamala's Momentum has kind of deflated.
Let's see how it goes for Beto. I see a lot of enthusiasm but also way more vitrol that I saw with Kamala. We will see if the enthusiasm is organic if he is able to outdo Kamala or even Bernie's first day.
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Like literally this is one of the things socialists were criticizing Bernie about. like Michael brooks for example on the majority report talks about this a lot.
Criticizing him by saying that he used to be further left than what he appears now?
If nothing else I'm glad more people are talking about this and I hope it gets people like Harris and Bernie who I don't think have made comments about the Supreme Court give them a push to back expanding the courts , etc:
I guess the Hillary supporters who thought Bernie's movement was about a cult of personality would have an extremely low standard for charisma.
https://twitter.com/kfile/status/1106251433895186433
Weren't we told Bernie is a democratic socialist not a socialist socialist
Weren't we told Bernie is a democratic socialist not a socialist socialist
Bernie is completely devoid of any charisma whatsoever - It's his commitment to the things he's proposing that's drawing people in, and the fact that he talks 24/7 nonstop about policy instead of using flowery words and spending like 4 paragraphs saying a bunch of nothing..
Looked up Yang for the first time today, and an interview came up in which the interviewer posed some interesting questions:
Yang answered the latter question as follows:
So his "different" arguments could conceivably be supplementary in nature, could help get through to more/additional/different types of voters, could maybe also help to persuade other candidates to get off the fence and become more forthright in their advocacy for single-payer, by making it more difficult for those fence-sitters (following what Carl Beijer says above) to portray insistence on single-payer as narrow-minded dogmatism. I mentioned something similar in relation to Kamala Harris, after the January CNN Town Hall:
Yang answered the latter question as follows:
So his "different" arguments could conceivably be supplementary in nature, could help get through to more/additional/different types of voters, could maybe also help to persuade other candidates to get off the fence and become more forthright in their advocacy for single-payer, by making it more difficult for those fence-sitters (following what Carl Beijer says above) to portray insistence on single-payer as narrow-minded dogmatism. I mentioned something similar in relation to Kamala Harris, after the January CNN Town Hall:
criticizing him because he doesn't think Bernie goes far enough in his policies, like that he wouldn't nationalize businesses that were fleeing the country. But at least this suggests that at one point Bernie did hold more radical beliefs about nationalizing industry.
It really sucks you have to reframe the question of healthcare from "everyone deserves to live" to "your employer given healthcare is getting worse and worse, having single payer would be an improvement and help your company/business". But greed is a powerful motivator I guess.
Yes Bernie's isn't just empty talk... he actually turns that talk into meaningful legislation that then gets passed as law and changes American lives for the better. Can a Bernie fan please list his legislative accomplishments from all those decades he's been in office?
Beto's talking up a heap of nothing. Bernie is incessantly talking about policy goals. Don't make a strawman and attack that instead of what I said.
and the bill that put an end to US support for Saudi Arabia in the war against Yemen was pushed in the Senate by Bernie very recently and that's just off the top of my head - he played a pivotal role in getting Amazon and Disney to raise the minimum wage for their employees and moved the Overton window way left in the Democratic Party.
doesn't matter if it sucks. Frame it the way that will win, or it will lose. Look how well the Republicans have re-framed racism to make it palatable to more voters. We would do well to learn from that
Yang's technical explanations are exactly why he's my front-runner (I also like Harris). Presenting data driven solutions makes him stand head and shoulders above Trump's 'anything I don't know, nobody knows' nonsense. Both sides lean on 'feelings' as a crutch, and 'feelings' ain't easy to change. Ultimately, everyone just doubles down on their 'gut' and shouts at one another louder. We need analysis an evidence to change minds.
I'm certain that Yang has the largest cross-over appeal of any candidate, but I don't think he has enough Dem appeal to make it out of the primary. Hoping he at least continues climbing, and maybe finds a good position he can run from in the future
We want to win. We already know the costs of not winning presidential elections at the most inopportune time. See: Trump and the two lifetime court appointments along with the untimely deathbof Scalia.
Wait if everything he's accomplished was in the last few months and that's what matters, why did the same people support him in 2016? Just the overton window thing? Yes let's have a serious discussion about nationalizing all industry, based on polling as much as 25% of American voters would support that!
Ahh, got ya
Beto on rural broadband: they can't get on pornhub and watch busty women giving sloppy blowjobs.
Every American should have access to affordable porn. That is why I am proposing the Affordable Porn Act which signs every American up for a pornhub account
I feel like you took the wrong lesson here, which is that evidence doesn't actually change people's minds and you need to be able to change their feelings to affect policy.
Consider the problem of climate change, we know it's coming, we know what it'll take to stop it, but we have very little movement here because people don't want to upset their current lives for the future.
Or anti-vax, all the evidence in the world doesn't stop them from endangering theirs and others' kids.
The world runs on feelings.
This poll shows that Harris's momentum is still building with the largest increase in favorability of all the candidates. While Berine's favorability has stopped increasing and is declining.
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