It is amazing how somebody as insipid as Pete continues to do so well in these contests. I really hope he craters into nothingness starting with Nevada. Then he can make way for Bloomberg, who will also eat shit!
No ones saying they didn't perform well, but to act like the candidates that got 2nd/3rd place are somehow a more important and bigger stories than the guy that got 1st place is ridiculous
You'd think the recent controversy would put a dent in that unless it just hasn't been reflected in polling yet. I can only hope. I'd also like to think a large amount of his supporters, both white and nonwhite, are incredibly fickle when they're largely coming to support him as a result of being blasted with ads and would quickly move on from him once they see just how easy it would be for Trump to dismantle him.Don't underestimate Bloomberg. He may not have participated the early primaries but his campaign is basically omnipresent in the media right now. I've also read in a German newspaper that his support among black voters is gaining momentum.
Last but not least calling him a socialist simply doesn't work since he makes more money in a single year than Trump's overall fortune.
Sounds pretty bad and like exactly what the democrats don't need right now :/He makes people feel good because he's a gay veteran selling easy to understand incremental change through a charismatic but not over the top delivery. He's the vanilla ice cream of this race, which is what people thought Biden was until he started tripping over his own words one too many times
Don't underestimate Bloomberg. He may not have participated the early primaries but his campaign is basically omnipresent in the media right now. I've also read in a German newspaper that his support among black voters is gaining momentum.
Last but not least calling him a socialist simply doesn't work since he makes more money in a single year than Trump's overall fortune.
I really do not know where is this general surge for Buttigieg coming from.
Disillusioned ex-Biden voters?
Don't underestimate Bloomberg. He may not have participated the early primaries but his campaign is basically omnipresent in the media right now. I've also read in a German newspaper that his support among black voters is gaining momentum.
Last but not least calling him a socialist simply doesn't work since he makes more money in a single year than Trump's overall fortune.
Well I imagine those WERE Biden Voters...I can't even begin to imagine why ANY black people would give their support to Bloomberg. I mean that is just incredibly ignorant and idiotic.
I can't even begin to imagine why ANY black people would give their support to Bloomberg. I mean that is just incredibly ignorant and idiotic.
The guy who got first place won this primary by 22 points in 2016 and now he squeaked by two relative unknowns. Yeah, I know there are more viable candidates now, but it's a story and it should be.
Bloomberg is at 96% name recognition with black voters, and yet his net favorability rating is -10, according to a recent Monmouth poll. If that's the basis of his candidacy, it's not going anywhere, especially considering his damning remarks about that demographic haven't really made national news.
It is because as a white billionaire in the Democratic party he carries within him most of the values needed to become the Dem candidate in the general election. We need to understand the historical conditioning of the black electorate to understand how narrow the allowance to dream of "change" is. Privilege here is that for non-black communities the result in the general election might not be the deciding factor between "life" and "death", but "suffering" and "slightly less suffering" - not everyone hold such privilege and thus what pragmatism means under such conditions will mean different things for different groups, based on privilege (of skin)-
Bloomberg is now the second favorite with almost all bookmakers I checked. Slow but steady climb.Don't underestimate Bloomberg. He may not have participated the early primaries but his campaign is basically omnipresent in the media right now.
I gagged.Bloomberg is now the second favorite with almost all bookmakers I checked. Slow but steady climb.
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I hope Sanders can score a decisive victory in Nevada or South Carolina. I'm glad he won, but Buttigieg should be nowhere near where he is.
How would you rank the candidates so far, in terms of who you personally want the most? My ranking would look something like this:
Sanders >>> Warren >>>>>>> Biden = Klobuchar >>>> Buttigieg >> Bloomberg = Trump
The others are just too insignificant to even factor in. Warren is still my clear second choice, but I expect her to drop out after Super Tuesday. At this point I'd be willing to go full Klobmentum over Boot-edge-edge.
Actually I think Bloomberg's rising 'popularity' is quite easy to explain: his ad blitz has been hitting Trump hard. He's been largely ignoring all the other contenders and just doing framing ads on himself and attack ads on Trump. There's no need to get into 'conditioning' or 'white billionaire', he's attacking Trump that's popular with constituency of the primaries.
Even someone like me who hates the idea of Bloomberg's candidacy had to applaud his superbowl ad. Personally, I wish most of the other candidates would stop going after each other and start continually pounding Trump. If I was Warren for instance, that's what I'd pivot to.
Sanders >>>>>>>>>> Warren >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Biden = Klobuchar >> Buttigieg >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bloomberg = Trump
I don't really know, I don't want any of the last 5 and just lump them together as "no". Before the primary process really started I think Bernie and Warren would've been almost equal.
Oh yeah, I definitely don't want the last 5 either. I could see myself mayyyyybe pinching my nose while voting for Biden or Klob, but I reaaaaally don't want Buttigieg, Bloomberg and Trump.
It really is just between Bernie and Liz for me, and bar a genius change in her campaigning, I don't see Warren even making 3rd place when all is said and done. She's doing Biden-tier terrible.
... Man, the world needs to adopt ranked preference voting yesterday.
he ate most of Warren's moderate lunch and split Biden's voters with Klobuchar.I really do not know where is this general surge for Buttigieg coming from.
Disillusioned ex-Biden voters?
No one said he doesn't have viability in New Hampshire. New Hampshire is even whiter than Iowa.NH results once again reinforce Era bubble. After Iowa the hounds were out against Pete saying he had no viability in NH and of course he won Iowa because he dumped 95% of his budget into the state. And yet here we are With Pete who would have beat Bernie (again) had it not been for an unexpected rise in Amy.
This thing is far from over and I fully expect Pete to fuck this thing over.
I'd be curious to see how much of Amy's support came from Biden versus Pete. I don't think the three are as interchangeable as people make them out to be. I'm not convinced "Not-Bernie" is the unifying factor yet.NH results once again reinforce Era bubble. After Iowa the hounds were out against Pete saying he had no viability in NH and of course he won Iowa because he dumped 95% of his budget into the state. And yet here we are With Pete who would have beat Bernie (again) had it not been for an unexpected rise in Amy.
This thing is far from over and I fully expect Pete to fuck this thing over.
It probably won't last much longer.This morning I am upset that Buttigieg leads by one delegate because of Iowa.
Yes ya ratatoot tootin sandwich handler.
Is the vaccum left by Biden a place Bernie can occupy? If not i am worried.
I wish I could source you, I think it was somewhere on the NYT website, but I think Bernie was leading second choice preferences for Biden and Warren.Is the vaccum left by Biden a place Bernie can occupy? If not i am worried.
Polls seem mostly inaccurate recently, anyways. So I'm just about ready to embrace that perilous, spiky (but ultimately inviting) way of life.Now we have to suffer ten days to the brutally unpollable and unpredictable Nevada caucus.
Yes ya ratatoot tootin sandwich handler.
God there needs to be some Biden platitude generator.