2020 Democratic presidential primary

Top two should just draw straws to figure out who drops out of the race and becomes the other's veep, imo.

one more caveat about this single national poll is that it is small (6 point margin of error).

there are good polls, there are bad polls

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-democrats.html

Top two should just draw straws to figure out who drops out of the race and becomes the other's veep

Nobody's fucking voted

Whoa, really?
https://media2.giphy.com/media/SDogLD4FOZMM8/giphy.gif

you and a few thousand other dingalings are calling on candidates w/ sbout 20% to drop out, aintcha? lunacy

I'd say the putative top two joining forces might just seal the deal in our favor. And FTR, I wasn't saying they should do it literally this moment.

(My real preference is to just let the Chicago machine pick Humphrey Mk II and put this whole thing to rest. Clooney, come on down!)

I guess I understand this fanatasy but these aren't backbenchers, they are two serious legislators, and neither of them are going to run for veep

Anyway the party isn't going to go into this w a ticket comprised of TWO lefty New England senators. If Warren gets the nom it will probably be a younger man, if Bernie then a woman or POC—in either case somebody w/ positions slightly more palatable to moderates.

Warren/Castro, Sanders/Stacy Abrams

Can't see Harris wanting the VP job when she could be AG and have something to actually do tbh

xp (...more palatable to moderates and probably somebody w/ executive experience—governor, mayor, whatever)

silby yeah like that

xxxpost Oh, I know that's what's GOING to happen. I'm just proposing creative alternatives to Vice Presidential candidate Jeff Whosthat or Betty Idontevenknow.

Biden support among voters under 50: 6%

holy cow

Biden support among voters under 50: 6%

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 26, 2019 2:55 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if that's the monmouth poll, that's a poll of 129 under 50s and the MOE is 9%, which is getting into anecdotal territory

Much too small a poll, but still:

          Aug   June
          2019  2019
Sanders   20%   14%
Warren    20%   15%
Biden     19%   32%
Harris     8%    8%
Booker     4%    2%
Buttigieg  4%    5%
Yang       3%    2%
Castro     2%   <1%
O’Rourke   2%    3%
    Favorable   Unfavorable
Biden	  66%   25%
Sanders   64%   24%
Warren    65%   13%
O’Rourke  39%   20%
Harris    56%   17%
Buttigieg 43%   14%
Booker	  49%   14%
Castro	  35%   13%
Yang	  24%   12%
Among 18-49 year olds:
Sanders  27%
Warren   19%
Harris   12%
Biden     6%
Yang      6%
Booker    5%
Among college grads:
Warren    25%
Biden     20%
Sanders   14%
Harris    10%
Buttigieg  5%

you and a few thousand other dingalings are calling on candidates w/ sbout 20% to drop out, aintcha? lunacy

Biden support among voters under 50: 6%

...are you suggesting that this candidate with about 20% should drop out

Biden support among voters under 50: 6%
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 26, 2019 2:55 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if that's the monmouth poll, that's a poll of 129 under 50s and the MOE is 9%, which is getting into anecdotal territory

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, August 26, 2019 2:08 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

BREAKING: Biden polling at -3% with voters under 50

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/27/lesbians-pete-buttigieg-2020-president-1475900

why some lesbians don't want pete buttigieg to be president

Why some lesbians don’t want Pete Buttigieg to be president

Why some lesbians don’t want Pete Buttigieg to be president

"Lesbian political activists are divided", or so I hear. Other lesbians? I guess we'll have to wait and see, when Politico gets around to asking them.

I don't want Pete Buttigieg to be president

I am suggesting Old Joe is flaming out, sic

Why not? He flamed out every other time he ran for president.

u dingaling

gillibrand out

Why some lesbians don’t want Pete Buttigieg to be president because he interestng

a nation mourns xp

Gillibrand's fine in the Senate. I can see why she wanted this but she just doesn't have a marketable angle or base of support.

I sealed her fate when I forgot to put her in the poll options

xp. So much for the Hillary (NY, gender-focused, centrist) contingent. Buttigieg and Harris tied up the corporate donors, so there wasn't much political real estate left...

Buttigieg and Harris tied up the corporate donor

lol u forgot somebody

Biden? Buttigieg outraised him.

Why they hide the bodies under my garage

Gillibrand, we hardly knew you. OK, we kind of did, so maybe that's why nobody was supporting you?

just think it's weird to act like the current "frontrunner" isn't also hoovering up corporate money, it's what he's always done

xp

Gillibrand's fine in the Senate. I can see why she wanted this but she just doesn't have a marketable angle or base of support.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, August 28, 2019 5:48 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i believe her pitch was that she has a record of winning rural whites without moving too far right. but klobuchar has that plus the comb-eater lane sewn up.

I thought she would have shown up with some policy positions or at least a decent stump speech. I’m frankly surprised she did so poorly but that’s probably a failure of my own imagination- I assumed a much thinner field and wasn’t expecting Warren and Harris to turn out as strongly as they have.

people wanted Warren to run last time, she's been laying this groundwork forever. Harris is behind her in that respect.

I thought Gillibrand did pretty good in the debates personally, better than Klobuchar for sure, and I don't dislike her nearly as much as everyone else appears to. I hope she has a long run in the Senate. I think she's a good person.

I don't dislike her she just didn't seem very good at running for President!

like Harris I think calling her a centrist is fundamentally inaccurate but whatever I'm in the minority on that point

gillibrand also disliked by some of what you might think of as her natural constituency because of the franken stuff.

i thought it was that and the difficulty fundraising that basically weighed her down? other than that i never really heard anyone saying anything terrible about her, she seemed like she would be good, a good campaigner, etc? just no traction

social media reactions to everything she said was about 95% angry Franken reactions, many from women. it was so over the top I found it a bit suspicious.

maybe I underestimate how popular Franken was in the midwest or something.

Gillibrand now drinks her whiskey alone.

xp they do love to grumble that he got a bad rap around here, maybe they are the people propping up biden's numbers too