2020 Democratic presidential primary

she also literally retweeted him and said "I support this message"

lmao

I thought this was interesting - the central point about black women delivering the margin of victory for Dems seems indisputable.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/10/what-do-black-women-voters-want/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/8IkFvV5cxNv46Y3xHVzWOpThS4I=/1440x0/smart/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/74FF5BABJVHDHP4TKL23ERC3HY.jpg

Most surveys, including the most recent Post-ABC News poll, show that the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is a three-person race between Biden, Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). But the Essence-Black Women’s Roundtable survey shows it to be a four-person contest with Harris firmly in the mix. She comes in behind Biden overall at 15 percent and behind Sanders with 17.1 percent among younger black women voters.

Notice how Harris, the only black woman in the contest, gets more support the 18-to-34-year-olds than she does with the entire group of black women. With “criminal justice and policing reform” the top issue for these young women, the criminal justice plan Harris released Monday will be of great interest. Despite the polls, I’ve long believed Harris was stronger than it appears on the surface. This survey gives credence to my position.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com

sorry, due to my workout regime, glistening abs, and how much i love bleeding steak, i only read alpha opinions

Leftists shitting on the NYT for being the voice of centrism in America but jumping up and down with glee the moment Cramer, of all people, support their narrative is my new definition of the echo bubble.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

there are lots of leftists saying "warren will be bad for wall street"?

I'm still confused about Biden's support in the black community.

I think it's fairly explicable - older black voters know how deeply racist this country is and are more inclined to think that as a result a white man (or in Hillary's case, a white woman) will have an easier time maneuvering the levers of power in their favor than a black candidate. Black voters on the whole didn't coalesce behind Obama until he won Iowa, there was a huge swing after that. Same dynamic.

I'm still confused about Biden's support in the black community.

― akm, Wednesday, September 11, 2019

I said last month that you can't underestimate the symbolism and reality of an older white dude gladly being a #2 to the first black president.

Shakey also otm.

I don't support Biden but I did have a moment where I was thinking "goddammit am I now an older black voter"

everybody over 35 is old fyi

That being said, I think Biden's support base is pretty obvious both due to Shakey's and Alfred's arguments, plus you have to acknowledge that the black community is not "radical" despite what the media would have you believe; it's just as establishment-oriented as any other American community and the defaults are going to swing towards the centrists most closely aligned to their interests.

xp was just about to ask about that demarcation.

shit, i became old a few months ago, then. wait, why am i wearing a red maga hat...hold the phone...

noooooooooooooooo

my main takeaway from the black women voter poll numbers shakey just posted is that - after more or less a full year of pre-campaigning - the clear winner for all age demographics is still "Other/Prefer Not to Answer"

Local Right-wing gasbag actor I know's gig today was being Beto's camera test stand-in at the debate, and it amuses me to no end.

Andrew Yang’s campaign manager just called to tell me that at tomorrow night’s debate, Yang will be doing "something no presidential candidate has ever done before in history.” He declined to go further than that.

— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 11, 2019

Self-immolation would certainly be novel.

He should give a thousand bucks to every person in the audience.

he's going to debate shirtless

get your yang-yangs out!

he's announcing Grimes will be his running mate

actually he's taking off his Andrew Yang mask and revealing that he *is* Grimes

Gonna debate from skype.

announcing his veep would be my guess... as lifted from veep!

proud to announce the disruptive vp choice, ted cruz

maybe gillibrand? woulda bet gravel but apparently he's a berner now

lol Gillibrand doesn't need him

can't find it now but meme describing Yang as "three redditors in a trenchcoat" OTM

gillibrand agreeing to be yang's VP in september 2019 would have to be a low point for her

Gravel and Yang have almost nothing in common.

well they're both idiot cranks

my demographic!

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/political-activist-linda-sarsour-emerges-as-surrogate-for-bernie-sanders-2020-presidential-campaign

This is about the stupidest thing I've seen Sanders do. It's like he's trying to lose the nomination. You don't win a national campaign by choosing someone this divisive as a surrogate. What a fucking dumbass.

like, which demographic is he trying to win over with this? the quietly antisemitic challopsy college crowd? nation of islam members? are they a significant voting block?

guess he's gonna lose all those zionist votes

he's going to lose jewish support, not just orthodox jewish support. I just don't get what he gains by this at all.

sarsour has been supporting bernie since 2016 i thought??

that's fine that she can support him, but he hasn't used her as a campaign surrogate. now his campaign will. my question being: to whom is this actually attractive? what demographic does he hope to sway his way by doing this? it makes me question his campaign's decision making skills.

I don’t think anybody except hardcore BDSers and real live actual Palestinian-Americans would care about that.

It’s certainly not a bigger deal than running for the Dem nomination with Sirota as your lead speechwriter.

classic ILX overreaction

never heard of "surrogate" as an official position before. was Rahm one for Obama?

this is inside baseball

With Morbz on this one.

i thought that too, but then i read:

The video, in which Sarsour is identified as a “Civil Rights Activist, 2020 Bernie Surrogate,” was tweeted by the campaign.

maybe this is just the way this word is used now

It’s certainly not a bigger deal than running for the Dem nomination with Sirota as your lead speechwriter.

which, does anyone still care about this?

clearly!

This long-ass article about Warren's fights with the Obama administration is interesting and worth reading.

I see tweets about Sirota now and then, mostly because Sirota is an idiot who can't stop saying and doing idiotic things

I have no idea who Sirota is

neither does America

Literally the only thing I remember about him was the controversy over him writing pro Bernie material when he had already gotten the speechwriter gig, which turned out to be bullshit.

How did that turn out to be bullshit?

Here's a statement from the Guardian calling upon The Atlantic to correct the story by @IsaacDovere regarding the work hats of David Sirota: pic.twitter.com/RSwL8766hD

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) March 19, 2019

and as Morbs said I suspect about 0.001% of Americans even know who he is anyway