You'd still want to avoid states dominated by machine politics like Illinois and much of the blue mid Atlantic. Like NJ is super represenitive of the Democratic coalition nowadays, but you'd want it nowhere near the front.Pete is an excellent politician and yeah would make a solid VP choice
Also i would think this would be a good place to start as far as who should actually go first in primaries:
Honestly, I think this ticket would give us the best chance to win. Not due to the quality of these two, of course, but due to mass appeal. As others have said here, Bernie will be "hard mode."
I feel like when people say this (like with NV polls "always" being wrong) you're just setting yourself up for eventually being wrong.
Yes excluding women from the ticket is sure to energize women voters
So, this is just my thought process I rambled out to my husband earlier....so it's more gut feeling than anything else.
Unfortunately I feel like a good chunk of Bernie fans hate her more than almost anyone else in the race.
That chunk of Bernie fans are shortsighted crazies who shouldn't be determining the party's ticket tbh
Aren't they trying to get her primaried 4 years before her term is up right now? I believe they are.
There might be a singular word for that group
To be fair, she is covered in scales, and doesn't have hands or feet. Combine that with her COMPLETELY abandoning M4A by showing the steps she'd take to transition to it and pay for it, and the fact that she used to be a Republican, and who can possibly blame them.
Way too many big, expensive states. We can keep the original first four, add Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and then rotate the pairs randomly every four years. We get reasonably sized populations, decent diversity, proximity to the current four and most importantly they become key states for Democrats politically going forward. We need to engage more with Wisconsin in order to hold it going into the future and continue to improve on the democratic party apparatus in NC/AZ, so we can eventually make them our next VA/CO/NV success stories. Massachusetts just shares the same media market as NH, but has more POC in it than there are people in all of New Hampshire, so it's a nice fit.Pete is an excellent politician and yeah would make a solid VP choice
Also i would think this would be a good place to start as far as who should actually go first in primaries:
That did start trending and I'm sure it's mostly bots, but I'm even talking about before that. I've seen Bernie supporting people post about how much of a snake she is, etc. Just way more vitriol than anyone else.
Who do you suggest? Warren is "too big" to take a step down from the Senate and be VP. Klobuchar has zero appeal to minorities just like Pete but isn't as famous. Stacey Abrams is a relative unknown.
Maybe but any momentum he gets could just get sapped a few days later. And so many of the ST states are early voting states with Biden presence that's it's unlikely he could capitalize on any momentum. And those other candidates aren't just vanishing between SC and ST
Kamala, Gretchen Whitmer, Tammy Duckworth, Tammy Baldwin, Stacey Abrams, Catherine Cortez-Masto, etc.
Economist you're so dreamy. Neoliberals have both the dominant mindshare among the electorate and no real choice in the race.
I think it should be Abrams, she's the best practical pick for both Biden and Sanders, the activist base loves her, and I assume she'd bring some focus on voter mobilization which I like a lot.
New Mexico would be a good one too
Nevada is a good state to have early though. Iowa is the only real problem other than just the general scheduling.
If Liz gets 2nd in Cali, she could come out with a decent amount of delegates and not have that much pressure to drop out either. I don't see Pete leaving after Super Tuesday.
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‘He Hasn’t Been Here’: Why Joe Biden Lags in Super Tuesday States (Published 2020)
Joseph R. Biden Jr. is counting on a victory in South Carolina to revive his candidacy. But a daunting challenge awaits next week in states where he has limited resources.www.nytimes.com
Interviews with party leaders in half a dozen Super Tuesday states suggest that the same vulnerabilities that plagued Mr. Biden beginning in Iowa — subpar organization, limited outreach to local Democrats and a late start to campaigning — are holding him back in the states that next week will dole out a third of the total delegates in the Democratic primary.Mr. Biden's on-the-ground operations, these Democrats said, are easily dwarfed by those of Mr. Sanders and Michael R. Bloomberg, the moderate former mayor of New York who has plainly cut into Mr. Biden's standing in some of these states even as he faces his own mounting challenges in the race."Arkansas was, in my opinion, going to be a default Biden state," said Michael John Gray, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas. "He hasn't been here. Of all the campaigns, the least organized in Arkansas is Biden."Other candidates like Mr. Sanders, of Vermont, are already campaigning in Super Tuesday states, holding events that excite supporters and generate news media coverage. But Mr. Biden has planted himself elsewhere, after his fourth-place finish in Iowa and fifth-place New Hampshire result threw even his expected firewall of South Carolina into doubt.
I don't know. I still feel like our best bet is someone super well known nationally. Kamala apart, none of these people are well known outside of liberals who pay very close attention to politics.
