2020 Democratic presidential primary

he'd be inaugurated a day after his 39th birthday, shy of 4 years younger than TR was when McKinley stopped clinging to life and a bit over 4 years younger than JFK at his inauguration, so the youngest president by a lot

whew, thanks guys, it sure would be embarrassing if dems accidentally nominated someone too young to be prez. They'd have to do the primary all over again!

If we elect someone too young they can just have a regent rule until they reach 35

Read that as Reagan rule, which, yeah.

don't think you can necessarily superimpose this over specific candidates in 2020, particularly so early in the race, but it's worth keeping in mind:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/08/upshot/democratic-electorate-twitter-real-life.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

What a useless piece. 'Non-Twitter users are more moderate than Twitter users' - no shit, they're older.

i think the takeaway here is that there's a tendency by people who are extremely online as well as by the media, who make up a significant portion of that extremely online contingent, to overemphasize certain political trends/candidates. as the piece points out, more than half of the Dem electorate has zero opinion or perhaps even awareness of AOC, which if you mistook Twitter for the broader Dem universe (which, duh, you're right, it's not, but which a hell of a lot of media folks seem to act as though it is) would seem inconceivable.

and AOC is just one, relatively harmless example. harmless i mean compared to say, the popularity and potential staying power of Joe Biden, which a lot of folks on the left may be severely underestimating.

yeah i don't think it's age that's the factor (older people vote for donald trump and brexit due to anti immigrant sentiments, that's not moderate). but as evol j says twitter is a self-selecting community that by its very nature contains way more extremely socialist or extremely fascist people than you will encounter irl

I don't think anyone's underestimating him, he leads every poll. There's just a hope that he self-destructs as he has previously.

The most very-online lefty Twitter users know that Obama remains popular, would win in 2020 by a landslide if he could run and that residual glow makes Biden dangerous.

I don't see this landscape where anyone mistakes Twitter for tea leaves that tell a political future.

xp - the key part that's revealing about age is the political correctness question.

NEW: Bernie Sanders says he will release 10 years of his tax returns by Monday. He's now a millionaire. “I wrote a best-selling book,” he told me. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”https://t.co/yI0NE1R9gW

— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) April 9, 2019

I hope his campaign pivots on this and just becomes an itemized list of how you, too, can write a best-selling book.

He's right, you know. I'm going to write one.

starting Monday "he's a millionaire / hypocrite / champagne socialist" will be the principal attack line against him in perpetuity, I expect.

i would only be surprised by his taxes if he turned out to be banksy. It would be hard to explain the additional income from arthouse auctions.

bernie claims to be a socialist yet he owns shoes and regularly purchases food with money he has ‘earned’

interesting

well we are going to find out about his payments from deutsche bank so you can understand his reluctance

#kompromatskaya #resist

swallwell eh?

he looks like the dude who played Hugh Sloan in All the President's Men. He's a solid, intelligent congressman who belongs on cable TV.

The hideous Hillaryite gay blog commenters are saying of Bernie "he's never addressed that a lot of his support is fake"

russian bots

i do completely fucking hate millionaires

Write a book about it

pfft sounds like a trap

starting Monday "he's a millionaire / hypocrite / champagne socialist" will be the principal attack line against him in perpetuity, I expect.

― Simon H., Tuesday, April 9, 2019 2:18 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is well and good but i'm happy to stick with 'he's an old fool'

he will still be the "poorest" candidate by some distance, I would think? or is there another contender

it's true that i hate all the candidates

v reasonable stance tbh

i do completely fucking hate millionaires

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5:51 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Write a book about it

― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5:52 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago)

lol joke's on you i already hate myself

itt humblebrags

with that self-loathing more like grumblebrags

he will still be the "poorest" candidate by some distance, I would think? or is there another contender

I would think that Buttigieg is less rich. Unless his father's Gramsci translation did Bernie numbers and it was passed down.

Buttigieg went to Harvard and worked for McKinsey. Then had no expenses while in the military and then moved to south bend Indiana. He might be in better financial shape than Castro.

NY Times w/ page-one poll warning "All the non-Twitter Dems are mmmmmoderate, u better nominate a Goldman Sachs pal"

Mike Gravel just sent out this email, with the subject line "Fuck Tucker Carlson":

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D30SrIIWsAEsfy2.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D30SsHXXsAEdHD7.jpg

I love the Gravel teens.

NEW: Bernie Sanders would support eliminating the legislative filibuster to pass Medicare for All when there is a simple majority in favor. From his statement: pic.twitter.com/0EZgWEFb17

— Greg Krieg (@GregJKrieg) April 10, 2019

'requiring a talking filibuster'... What's going on...

to the best of my knowledge, the easy method of filibuster is simply voting not to close debate on a bill (cloture) so a bill cannot be brought to a final vote. The hard method is continuing to "debate" by actually speaking on the floor of the Senate. This usually turns out to be a Senator reading aloud from something irrelevant to an empty chamber.

retaining the talking filibuster is a way of saying you aren't violating the sacred tradition of unlimited debate in the senate, while still fixing the parliamentary maneuver that is now what we mostly know as the "filibuster"

That won't fix a damn thing. Definitely won't get M4A passed. Completely nonsensical.

shut up, Fred

lol

folks, let me be clear. we can 51 fred again. it will be funny.

the full statement is clearer but does not seem to say what the original poster says it did? odd

Here is Sanders' full statement. Includes their plan to use reconciliation in certain circumstances: pic.twitter.com/yFMP9aJMCM

— Greg Krieg (@GregJKrieg) April 10, 2019

I told my wife that one of the thing Mayor Pete was interested in (according to his Breakfast Club interview). She looked it up quickly and turns out South Bend teachers make less than the average Indiana teacher. Also, he talked about how we need to bring city-style politics into national politics?! Last time I checked, city governments weren't any less corrupt than any other level of government.

I told my wife that one of the thing Mayor Pete was interested in (according to his Breakfast Club interview) was increasing teacher pay.

It all feels very Obama with him.