So now you're defending the Clarence Thomas hearings? How low can we go?
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Democratic Presidential Primaries & Caucuses |March OT| Last Tuesday was 1000 years ago, old news no one cares about (Discussion Guidelines in OP)
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Oh, what's the "realistic conclusion"? Dismissing the Clarence Thomas hearings with "oh he voted against it"
Status quo for disability is not acceptable at all, biden doesn't have a plan for it at all, nor has changed the fact the if your disability you can legally be paid under minimum wage .
I'm not defending shit, I'm countering the point made that Biden would want a Thomas on the court. He voted against Thomas. And there's no sign he would appoint anyone vaguely conservative.
Please, feel free to change what we're talking about to justify your outrage, though.
Fair.
I'm actually surprised they went with a losing strategy and kept at it for the long haul.
I despise presidential elections.
the 1st one in the history of France was in the 2nd Republic,
the winner was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte who disbanded the Republic for another goddamn Empire.
He only won because his name included Napoleon while no one knew who the horde of nobodies were runing.
I can derail the thread even further if you want me to go in details about how it's currently fucking up democracy in France at a very deep level.
That doesn't mean it's not the current system we're playing in and we can't throw it away.
No need to derail further, we're all in agreement here. It's just depressing is all.
Bernie was "outperforming him" because those ended up being a reflection of "electability" which in turn is just driven by "who's winning right now". And, as it turns out, the actual race looked quite different once it came down to two options. Where everything I had personally been warning about w/ Sanders' crosstabs showing red flags about his campaign's nonexistent outreach w/ voters outside his 2016 base and it's mass bleed of its 2016 white electorate turned out to put a hard ceiling on his campaign the moment it became a 1v1 vs the candidate he matched up worst against (because Biden would be uniquely attractive to 2016 anti-Hillary voters.)
Bernie Sanders is losing the nomination because Bernie Sanders is the living incarnation of this poster. He is a person utterly incapable of self-reflection and the ability to adapt to new situations when his previous attempts fail. Everything he messed up in the 2016 campaign, instead of being rectified, was doubled down on. He can never be at fault. It's always someone else to blame. He is political equivalent of "The Scrub" from 'Playing to Win'.
At least it makes for very entertaining TV that's for sure.
Sure, at this point the results communicate Biden clearly winning as said hot hand and I do agree that Biden will probably perform a little better in NC than Bernie would have in a general.
But my point was, what happened in the lead-up to South Carolina? A very strong anti-Bernie narrative emerged with a focus on how he would impact other elections around the country while he was consistently polling quite well in places like MI, PA, and WI compared to Biden and he was doing very well in ME, CO, and AZ during that time period as well including beating Biden in match-ups. Now, the final votes, have come out a certain way and I'm not disputing this, but what I am taking issue with is people acting like Biden always had this clear advantage in attempting to reclaim the Senate and keep the House when outside of maybe Florida specifically, there wasn't much to support that. And specifically that narrative I think began to cost him a number of votes because it communicated such a lack of confidence in Sanders in the lead-up to Super Tuesday when so many people began to fearmonger about such additional elections. "Biden gives us a better chance to win the Senate" was a narrative that emerged in the lead-up to and with SC's win when there wasn't really those indicators from much of anything and the data was actually showing Bernie doing quite well in these many important states and swing states even in comparison to Biden in head to heads against Trump.
If sanders cant win on in 1v1 race then he never deserved the nomination. All this whining ignores the fact that had bernie won a fractured primary it would have not have been with the majority of dem party voters backing him.
Saying he voted against it isn't defending the hearings. Some of you have really lost the plot. Pay attention to what you're actually accusing people of.
Joe Biden was complete scum during the Clarence Thomas hearings. I don't give a shit what he voted, he did all he could to give him the best chance possible, voting against him isn't deserving of a gold star.
Quite the revolution on display
It's going to be a bloodbath
aka "Fuck Hillary" might have been the biggest independent voting block in history
Bahahahahahahaha
you sweet summer child.
We have literal centuries showing us the truth of that statement.
fair point.
I don't think there's even a data point to show that happening....ever.
I'm gonna try to put it in the simplest terms, responding to a critique of Biden's involvement in the Clarence Thomas hearings with "Biden didn't vote for it" is absolutely dismissing his role in the nomination, even if the original poster may not have meant it like that.
Yes because we are using the phrase popularity contest literally here. Don't be so pedantic.
In the simplest terms I think you should go with what a poster says instead of the exaggerated extreme conclusion you're inferring from it.
Does that mean he's gonna appoint conservative judges though?
He can be a piece of shit the size of mount Everest and STILL not appoint conservative judges.
But they ARE literal popularity contest.
In the strictest sense of the word even.
A fucking booted poney could win an election (and in some case people chose to vote for dead people even).
Nobody is giving him a gold star for his behavior at those hearings. Did you even read the post I was replying to, which was concern-trolling that Biden's idea of a SC nomination would be another Thomas? Because that is the start and end of why I posted that Biden voted against Thomas.
Do you honestly think that 2020 Biden would appoint somebody that even his less-evolved 1992 self would have voted against?
The constant MSNBC and CNN anti-bernie propaganda campaign wasn't nothing. Nor was the bias in the so called newspapers of record.
I'm now at the point I unironically think people should watch Survivor to get a better handle on politics because political equivalent of the "social game" aspect of games like it and Big Brother is unironically why Sanders is losing.
They were also calling Biden's campaign dead and Pete the heir apparent.
The phrase popularity contest is colloquially used to refer to a contest that is devoid of substance. I can't think of any time I've used the phrase popularity contest to literally refer to a contest in which the most popular person wins.
I see where you're coming from now. I think my mind is jumbled about what narratives arrived before and after SC. I think the "Joe Biden gives us a better chance at the Senate" argument held water AFTER South Carolina because he looked strong. I don't think many people were giving him much credence at all before the Clyburn endorsement, and even then, only expected a modest victory in SC. After he absolutely wrecked SC, I think people's calculus changed and the narrative about the Senate started to creep in. But it's hard for me to determine how much that played into it versus all of Biden's moderate competition dropping out and supporting him.
Personally, all along, I have thought Bernie at the top of the ticket would be a harder road for the Senate unless he had demonstrated an ability to really bring out an untapped coalition of voters, the way Trump brought rural and working class white voters to the GOP in 2016. For example, if Latinos and the youth vote rose 25% or something, that would have shown me "oh shit, maybe Bernie could get people to vote that wouldn't have". When I look at the candidates likely to run in ME, CO, IA, etc., I figured they'd look more like a Joe Biden than a Bernie Sanders. And when you're running for Senate, it helps to have someone at the top of the ticket that aligns with your likely voting coalition.
But what the hell do I know, I'm just an armchair analyst lol.
You just described presidential elections.
There's no substance to this and it's not about policy or anything like that.
If it was about policy or substance Sanders or Warren would be preparing for the general or we would be discussing GoP primaries right about now.
There's a very real chance that Sanders would have been a much better president but that's not who the electorate wants .
I wouldn't say he's gonna put up a conservative, but I would say I don't trust his judgement considering he could have done so much more to stop him from getting on the court. Him talking about any kind of nomination doesn't give me any confidence because of that, but it's obvious no one cares about past choices in this primary, considering even on this forum you can read things like "he's a liar, but he said he's gonna do great things"
Yes, I agree with everything you're saying here. At this point we're just arguing semantics lol.
Yea I think that's the right move, and other states should follow suit.
I don't see how states could have in person voting tomorrow and conform to CDC guidelines.
Just to head off any trouble as we discuss this, let's remember the threadmark.
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There's a pandemic. Bernie has no shot. He should drop out and just work behind the scenes to get his platform adopted rather than relitigate his stump speech.
Also wanted to win in the most divisive way possible.
I look forward to the inevitable tell all book about that campaign
I agree, Bernie should do backroom deals so that he can get absolutely played when they follow through on none of it in addition to losing all credibility with his base.
he has no realistic path, unless God forbid something happens to Biden.
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