Which candidates do you guys actually like? Too much negativity in this thread.
I dislike all of them to different extents. Sorry. Though, to be honest I have a natural distrust of everyone that runs for public office simply because their very purpose is to come across as genuine to you and you have no way to know one way or the other without actually knowing them personally. Just feel that if someone thinks a politician is "honest" and "genuine" they've fallen for the hype. Not to mention the fact is literally all of them will mostly end up following party orthodoxy because, in the end, presidents don't really have full control over policy.
On climate change they're all going to follow the European model which, frankly hasn't been the solution even if it is "better" than the way the U.S. has been tackling it (though, ironically, the U.S has still been leading gas emission decline recently and France has had an increase). There's been backsliding and things move forward on that at a glacial pace. All of them are not very pro nuclear, which would have been the solution to the problem in the first place and I feel we'll be looking back 20 years from now thinking that it would've been the best solution in that time period as well.
On healthcare, I specifically dislike the candidates pushing for only single payer. Like dumping a huge portion of the economy that's one of the biggest employers instantly will doom your legislation even if it passes, because you're gonna lose congress and the presidency immediately afterward (You think the reaction to something as mild as the ACA is bad?). People won't care very much that they have better healthcare when you bring a recession down on their heads.
On age: I don't want someone who's so young that they have minimal experience or so old that they're probably one of those congressmen that the congressional pharmacy secretly sells Alzheimer pills to or will likely croak before two terms are up.
On supreme court picks, they're all fundamentally the same. They'll all choose anti-citizen's united judges that have a certain view on social issues. Their will be SOME variation but they're all gonna choose from the same "experienced" short list.
On the millitary, I just have it as a given that, given the wrong situation, they'll all fuck something up.
On israel: let's face it, the israeli lobby is entrenched and kissing the ring is politically expedient and easy to do if they're a horrible government. More voters run away from an anti-israel candidates than are lost by being pro.
On immigration: don't actually know the very specifics of most of the candidates immigration plans and I'm very interested to learn more. They're all guaranteed to be MILES better than anything the GOP come up with.
On their record: they all have skeletons that, if you waved them in people's faces all day with no other information available, then the person you're waving that skeleton in front of will think they're the worst candidate ever. Not to mention there are plenty of REALLY out of context attacks going on that are outright misleading. This isn't to say that I don't care about their records, their records are a negative against all of them for different reasons.
Overall I DISLIKE Kamala Harris the least. She's got the necessary charisma to win a general, she has experience necessary to get things done, but she's not old enough to be in a nursing home.
Of course, I'm an NPA for a reason and I'm not gonna bitch and whine all day that none of the canididates are exactly what I want.
There was a poll done recently on exactly that, and Biden was actually everyone's second choice. That said, I think that's a matter of name recognition at this point. Almost all polling this early on is. We won't have any meaningful polls until like July, after a debate or two.
That's actually interesting information, but yeah we won't really know how far each candidate reaches until the primary actually fully starts.
