2020 Democratic presidential primary

what we need is a president who will run the united states like a business theme park

that sexi marine press conference was the best thing I’ve seen in a long time

Biden lagging badly behind Bernie and Warren in fundraising, you love to see it

can't wait for the first "Biden cancels Nevada ad buy" headline

Warren still hasn't published fundraising numbers? I guess they are lower than she'd want.

Biden lagging badly behind Bernie and Warren in fundraising, you love to see it

― Simon H., Friday, October 4, 2019 11:20 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It may just mean that Biden’s base for popular support has less income to spare for a horse race.

xpost 24.6 million
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/04/elizabeth-warren-third-quarter-fundraising-027426

It may just mean that Biden’s base for popular support has less income to spare for a horse race.

It may just mean that Biden’s base for popular support has less income to spare for a horse race.

this really does not appear to be the case

xxpost: oh, nice! happy to be wrong :)

It may just mean that Biden’s base for popular support has less income to spare for a horse race.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, October 4, 2019 3:03 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

from july

New story: Joe Biden raised more than one-third of his early campaign cash, $8 million, from donors who gave the maximum allowable amount— which could prove problematic down the line: https://t.co/3F8h0ujv0d

— Maggie Severns (@MaggieSeverns) July 16, 2019

not sure that a donor base of mostly starbucks, wal mart, and amazon employees has tons to spare themselves. i know it seems shocking when you consider the msm narrative, but it may just be that Biden’s appeal is pretty limited and likely to fall.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, October 4, 2019 3:14 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

What percentage represents the number of those employees in the total donation pool for Sanders and Warren?

i got alerts via social media + text on Sept. 30 from both the Warren and Sanders campaigns that they were "falling behind their goal" maybe the Biden campaign didn't send those out

Those are meant to stir the faithful.

“You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!” ; ) #Dollyism

— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) January 30, 2015

What percentage represents the number of those employees in the total donation pool for Sanders and Warren?

For Sanders the avg donation was $17.90, for Warren around $26 I believe? $44 for Biden. Idk if there's specific occupational data yet but that seems pretty clear-cut to me.

I’m pointing out more the idea that donations numbers without a wide array of statistics is not very meaningful and any analysis of it still remains heavily biased. Like you could look at these avg. donation numbers and conclude that Biden stans are just more generous, or have a stronger passion, or richer, or more desperate, etc.

you could do that, but it would be pretty obtuse.

I've definitely read pieces on typical occupations for supporters of each candidate but it's proving damnably difficult to Google.

lol man come on

Sanders won both the crowdfunding and general fundraising battle in 2016 and yet got pummelled by Clinton by more than 12%. I would love for Warren to win, and more importantly I would love for Biden to lose, but if you are certain than Biden is going to lose because he is lagging behind in fundraising, I just think you need better tea leaves.

no one is saying that

and your argument a second ago was "actually biden supporters are poorer but they just donate more"

I said ‘it may be that...’

raising such an unlikely and obtuse point shows some sort of support for it as a contention or why mention it?

Because I didn’t think it was an obtuse notion? Are we right now absolutely certain than the donor base of Biden’s funding represent the entirety of Biden’s base? Are we absolutely certain Sanders and Warren’s donor base represents lower income population than Biden’s base, donor + non donor? What makes a lower income Biden voter not give money to Biden? Can we translate Bernie’s success in crowdfunding and directly compare it to Biden and draw conclusions? I don’t know the answer to any of these so I have no clue if I should love the fact that Biden numbers are lagging.

What makes a lower income Biden voter not give money to Biden?

among other things, the low income

also he sucks and his supporters don’t care that much about him

i don't think biden's campaign's tone is nearly as "let's give this everything we've got!" as warren's & sanders'

nice and easy, biden style

Warren campaign fires senior staffer for 'inappropriate behavior'

Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has fired its national organizing director, Rich McDaniel, after an investigation into allegations of what it called “inappropriate behavior.”

“Over the past two weeks, senior campaign leadership received multiple complaints regarding inappropriate behavior by Rich McDaniel,” campaign spokesperson Kristen Orthman said in a statement after an inquiry from POLITICO Friday morning. “Over the same time period, the campaign retained outside counsel to conduct an investigation. Based on the results of the investigation, the campaign determined that his reported conduct was inconsistent with its values and that he could not be a part of the campaign moving forward.”

...

In a statement, McDaniel said, "I have separated from the campaign and am no longer serving as National Organizing Director. I have tremendous respect for my colleagues despite any disagreements we may have had and believe departing at this time is in the best interest of both parties.

"I would never intentionally engage in any behavior inconsistent with the campaign or my own values. If others feel that I have, I understand it is important to listen even when you disagree. I wish the campaign and my colleagues well."

"i'm just gonna kumbayah right on outta here," mcdaniel added

axiological inconsistency, that's a new one

Apologies if this one has already been posted

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/04/joe-biden-2020-age-president-campaign-229093

ilx I beg you to watch that Jacob Wohl press conference that is the greatest thing I've ever soon

I clicked on it the other day just to hear the heckler say “Do you realize the idea that Elizabeth Warren fucks really slaps?” and by the time that bit arrived I knew I was going to watch the whole thing

are there 9,000 Wohl / Nathan Fielder memes already or

One detail on Biden’s fundraising: 38% of the money he raised in his first two months came from 2,800 people who are maxed out and can’t give to him again in the primary.
w/ ⁦@KThomasDC⁩ https://t.co/0GzjPTyDyK

— Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) October 4, 2019

sic - I haven't seen but it was uncanny how much it seemed like nathan for you

when he said "we have voluminous Amazon receipts" I fucking died

The accuser losing it after saying “lime green dildo” was amazing

for some reason the way he said "cat o nine tails" very solemnly killed me to

LCPL Underground provides. I dunno about that last part though...

3/3 > 1/3 🤙 pic.twitter.com/w6lfmlJQKS

— Maximilian Uriarte (@TLCplMax) October 4, 2019

still can't believe those degenerate hecklers were mocking this man's military service

obnoxious

At Imperial Kuttz, Harris told this young woman, who is a polisci student in undergrad, that she should learn to code. It’s the second time she’s suggested that today — at an event earlier this morning, she told a student interested in law the same thing pic.twitter.com/QX8gjWvnFc

— Deepa Shivaram (@deepa_shivaram) October 8, 2019

Nobody should learn to code. So that we may be free of this curse. It’s too late for me. Save yourselves.

tbf, if you're a poli-sci major you better learn how to code, because you'll probably end up with some shitty job in middle management where you have to work with a database

tbf if you're poli-sci major you're probably already comfortable with Python

what a weird go-to; sounds like yer trying to be down with millennials

i have no idea what LCPL tweet is referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Battalion,_3rd_Marines

Coding jobs are definitely not easily outsourced and eventually automated.

"Learn to code" is the most generic career advice out there, inevitably given by someone who doesn't know how to code. Also reminds me of this weird, ultra-condescending "we just need to teach poor people how to code and they'll pull themselves up" strain of policy I find pretty annoying.