So, hypothetically speaking, if the choices come down to Bernie, Biden and Warren, but Warren is polling poorly in your state and voting for her would be the equivalent to voting Biden, would you vote for Bernie?
This is what I'm doing. Luckily my state votes on Super Tuesday so it should be clear whether Sanders or Warren are more viable, but I will vote for whichever of them I feel has a better shot at winning the nomination over Biden.
Illinois currently has Biden at 23%, Warren at 17% and Bernie at 15%.
100% agreed. Neither Bernie or Biden should be in this race at their age.
Bingo. There will absolutely be someone worse than Trump right around the corner if we don't confront the issues systemic to America now.
Obama is like stupidly popular. The idea that smearing Biden as Obama-lite will get people to go away feels kinda silly, especially when it's why he's currently winning.
things are only getting worse as power concentrates and people are radicalized in response.
Sanders had two head-to-heads in the last month where he loses to Trump
Bernie and Biden have nearly identical polling numbers in the general. Bernie may get dogpiled for being a socialist, but Biden is going to get absolutely destroyed for being senile. I can already see the 24 hour media asking if Biden is mentally fit to lead while ignoring Trump's same issues. Biden also doesn't inspire any sort of enthusiasm and would be pure poison for youth voter turnout.
For Sanders though, the only thing they'll be able to criticize him on is his socialist agenda. Which the GOP is extremely bad at.
Sanders is clearly more electable than Biden.
Do you know how to interpret "even then, I'm in a safe blue state"?
I don't see any salt of the Earth crusty Republicans running towards Biden over Bernie. Joe is taking a fool's gamble. He will only get the voters he's pining for when he throws some Lib tenet under the bus.
"I'm oblivious enough to think my vote will not matter where I am."
Why should he care about appealing to Republicans? Nobody with a D next to their name will appeal to Republicans simply because of that.
I'm not protest voting because the person I want isn't the nominee. You're ambivalent about another 4 years of Trump. I think that would destroy the country for decades. Not sure we're of the same ilk but idk.
He told rich donors that they need to chip in more but their standard of living would not fundamentally change. Which is true, even under the implementation of Bernie's or Warren's wealth taxes. Biden then rolled out a fairly progressive tax plan.
You haven't been following politics long, have you?
Maybe if you're white they won't.
And we all know how far an apology goes in politics, don't we?
And people are well known for making measured judgements based on a politician's actual policy.
