Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

I think the operative word is "emerging." Biden has been the actual front runner for months while Warren, Buttigieg, and Sanders have had surges that have led pundits to cast them as potential new front runners. But none of them have yet managed to actually get there.

Biden is slipping where the voters are white, tbh. Still hope Bernie can take it.

Good grief this CNN preamble is drivel

Klobuchar jfc

i had to check my tv's aspect ratio settings when they first showed buttigieg. he looks like 4:3 stretched out to 16:9

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SPOT THE MEATBALL THAT LOOKS LIKE MIKE. pic.twitter.com/CkzdgwpzdI

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) January 15, 2020

Gentle reminder to all my friends in this thread that it’s unwise to ever permit yourself to hear the voice of a politician.

^^^

Campari + gin = effective antidote

Straight whiskey for me, wolf blitzer is unbearable

Gawd CNN debates are the worst

Klobachar: and the blue collar worker rolled out a rack and on the rack were wire coat hangers and on the wire hangers were the skins of the blue color worker’s realistically named coworkers Derek Mark and Salvatore and yes this is a lesson about the economy

it's pretty amazing how Nate Silver totally fucked up the last election and didn't seem to take any lasting hit to his credibility

steyer thinking about maybe attacking buttigieg and then backing down was p funny

Mayor Pete : the ventriloquist’s dummy for whom every issue is personal to him

okay solid zing

What is this shit?

it's pretty amazing how Nate Silver totally fucked up the last election and didn't seem to take any lasting hit to his credibility

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:42 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Silver kind of sucks now, but 538 did give Trump better odds to win than pretty much any other forecaster.

yeah, was gonna say

"Don't put a chip on the wheel on a number that isn't even on the wheel"

Can't believe Bernie hasn't defeated an incumbent Republican since 1990.

the elephant that isn't really in this room

^another klobuchar thing, in the same run-in sentence that also mentioned her third marriage

I think this debate is turning me into a Bernie bro

Amy: “you should have a plan not a pipe dream”

Lol, another casino metaphor

you know what i love talking about? the deficit.

oh! I am in the US and have a tv to watch this.

I am drinking unfiltered sake.

oh my god just let me vote and die already

— Harron Walker (@HarronWawker) January 14, 2020

The mamas and the papas

“mommas” must be testing a lot better than I’d imagine

I’m not sure Biden has the energy for a two hour debate, or maybe he’s coming down with a cold or something but his answers seem to be getting progressively incoherent. Seems like Sanders is the winner here. Steyer and Klobuchar have also been fine but as always it seems they lack a certain quality that would make them seem viable. Maybe because they’re too normal? America likes their presidents to have some razzle dazzle maybe.

who was Reaganesque

Steyer and Klobuchar... lack a certain quality

Steyer and Klochubar do not inspire the necessary trust that they know how to do what they say must be done. Being the head of state is not like being a US senator or a CEO.

imo, Buttigeig only inspires trust among voters who think they are nearly the same as he is and that they would be a good president, too. That's a dismaying number of deluded middle class white people, but not enough to elect him.

it's pretty amazing how Nate Silver totally fucked up the last election and didn't seem to take any lasting hit to his credibility

Silver did just fine in the last election, estimating a Dem seat gain in the house in the high 30s when many were doubtful the Dems would take the majority, and getting most of the individual calls right too, even in the competitive races.

damn

What did they say!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/4hBhUJNB3r

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) January 15, 2020

godddam so this is going to be the next week of dem primary coverage huh

anyway, super weird if Bernie shat all over the notion of a female candidate against Trump and Warren only came out with it now hmm

I still wonder if the phrase “he said _a woman_ couldn’t win” actually means he named a specific woman

maybe anticipating Hillary would try again in 2020 lol

$4000/mo for anyone willing has its drawbacks.

Mike can telepathically communicate with dolphins. #BloombergFacts #DemDebate

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) January 15, 2020

anyway, super weird if Bernie shat all over the notion of a female candidate against Trump and Warren only came out with it now hmm

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, January 15, 2020 5:42 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

They agreed to not attack each other at the meeting, so it makes perfect sense that any attack only comes after the truce has been broken. By Bernie btw.

It really was incredibly stupid for the Sanders campaign to go after Warren right now, and, no matter how high up it happened, to then act so defensively about it. Major breach of trust, and only Biden benefits.

lol at Tom Steyer in that Sanders-Warren exchagne

It really was incredibly stupid for the Sanders campaign to go after Warren right now

Ah yes, the time-honored tactic of never saying anything even politely critical about the candidate whose voters are by far the most likely to be persuadable to vote for your candidate. If only they'd listened to Fred!

Or honored the agreement they made.

Look at what the consequences has been. You seriously think this was worth getting some volunteers to say that Warren's base is quite wealthy?

cory booker’s campaign just released a statement alleging that during a private meeting between booker & bernie sanders in 2019, sanders indicated that he was going to “take booker’s girl” [rosario dawson] because booker “wasn’t hittin it right”

— 💰TRILLIONAIRE💰 (@maltyhops) January 14, 2020

stfu Fred

fred i honestly don't know what you're talking about

this Sanders/Warren beef is gonna be well forgotten by the time we get to the actual caucus