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

out there gettin JUICED

Biden‘s bid to be the Inevitability Candidate seems to have faltered, anything other than beating Bg soundly and Sanders acceptably in S.C. presumably fatal, right?

I assume both Biden and Warren will keep campaigning through Super Tuesday regardless of the rest of February.

Who the fuck is voting for Pete? I don't live there now, but my moderate parents in NH split between Warren and Klobuchar. My brother voted for Sanders. I have never met or spoken to a gung-ho Buttigieg supporter. I know the tides turn quickly but who are these people?

cat people

NBC projects Sanders the winner.

cat people

― Dan I., Tuesday, February 11, 2020

been so long imo

I assume both Biden and Warren will keep campaigning through Super Tuesday regardless of the rest of February.

Seems like a sound assumption. At this stage only two weird small states have contributed their votes, so even if the narrative goes against you, you can still pin your hopes on the many hundreds of delegates yet to be distributed, which dwarf the numbers from Iowa, NH, and NV.

SC is where the narrative really gels into something much solider and it's nearly impossible to recover if you're not still in the top three. Since Super Tuesday comes just a couple of days after SC, you don't pull out until after Super Tuesday, regardless.

nah, pete is an extreme dog person

(so is warren but in a different way)

Who the fuck is voting for Pete? I don't live there now, but my moderate parents in NH split between Warren and Klobuchar. My brother voted for Sanders. I have never met or spoken to a gung-ho Buttigieg supporter. I know the tides turn quickly but who are these people?

― thewufs, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:05 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the one pete fan i know is a v sweet person whom i like a lot, i dont remember him being suuuuper into politics before buti remember him being reliably liberal. was in TFA with me, then started working at google. took a sabbatical to volunteer on the campaign.

anyway there must be like 1 million people in that exact demographic that i just described.

Sanders is ahead for the first time in Nevada polling according to 538

Worked at Google (and didn't get fired for unionizing) seems like a strong tell for Pete support

Why so sad, CNN?

(Except for Rojas)

lol

I doubt it’d happen, but what if the Sanders VP pick was someone who isn’t currently, or maybe has never been, a politician?

any truth to the concern that Bernie isn't drawing a big enough base? I see dudes like Weigel tweeting about it

Hanover (Dartmouth) went for Buttigieg

― Dan S, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8:46 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

never in doubt

has never been, a politician

It's a great rarity, but not totally unheard of.

please vote in my horrifying poll

the least bad remaining centrist democrat presidential candidate 2020

Sanders + Michelle O. would be a doozy

any truth to the concern that Bernie isn't drawing a big enough base?

Anyone who say they know how this will play out is just guessing. being the nominee automatically assigns much of the base to your election. the variables at the margins of this are too hard to know in advance.

the least worst of the (major-ish) moderate 2020 democratic presidential candidates

caek, already got u boo

I don't believe in any conspiracy bullshit about Mayor Pete - he is a self-made absolute shell of a human. He built that shell all by his goddamn self. I don't like type-A yuppie aspireocrats anymore than the next Millennial, but he seemed reasonable enough to me back in July or so when I knew nothing about the guy. It was the articles about his handling of his little city's big police problem that turned my stomach. So here's hoping that #CIAPete or some better hashtag spreads like fucking wildfire over the next couple weeks, and may the woke Mitt Romney be delivered back to the obscurity from whence he came.

Klobuchar is doing pretty well huh

ah sorry, xxp

my takeaway from this open primary is that a lot of Republicans really do legitimately like Klobuchar

“Historically the Democratic Party hasn’t been an angry party” —Chris Matthews (2020)

Sanders won overwhelmingly among ppl age 18-29 (51% to 20% for Buttigieg and 4% for Klobuchar) & age 30-39 (39%).

He lost big among voters 65+ (14%, compared to 32% for Klobuchar), tho in Iowa he'd only got 4% among voters above 65.

— Taniel (@Taniel) February 12, 2020

xps - but do they like her well enough to defect from their tribe in the general election?

presumably the ones who voted in the Dem primary are at least entertaining the idea of not voting for Trump in the general

+ a few Weld voters

ah sorry, xxp

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:38 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

great minds, my g

A doctor from Jersey got 22 votes. Does she have extended family in a small town there? Did she make one campaign appearance and win some people over? Did a bunch of people put their ballots on a dart board and choose that way?

The CEO of Comcast got three votes fewer than John Delaney.

I really can't behind, ever, calling any candidate by their first name.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:53 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

so weird hearing grown men and women referring to "Amy" and "Mayor Pete" and "Elizabeth.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:53 AM (one hour ago)

this has always kind of bugged me too, though i gave everyone a pass for saying "mayor pete" for a few months while we learned how to say "buttigieg" without lol-ing

presumably the ones who voted in the Dem primary are at least entertaining the idea of not voting for Trump in the general

I doubt that, I may seriously vote for Bill Weld in the GOP primary if the Dem nominee is settled by the time it gets here, and I am not entertaining the idea of not voting for whoever that Dem nominee is

Voting disruptively in the opposing party's primary is much more fun than voting for the shoo-in incumbent in your own party.

That’s bound to happen in Washington, where the Dems have now abandoned caucus-driven nominations and there’s no party registration and Donald J Trump is the only republican on the ballot and it’s 100% vote by mail.

I love that Sanders refers to this state as 'The New Hampshire'

Confirmed via Klobuchar spox @carliewaibel: It's "Klomentum" not "Klobmentum"

— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) February 12, 2020

sorry karl : (

Klo thanks

I don't think we noted ITT that Pete's campaign is also trying to win a Shorty Award at the same time as the presidency

The Buttigieg campaign applied for a “Best Brand Identity” award lol
https://t.co/NVK0lFdNQM pic.twitter.com/xrIuBWkzz6

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) February 9, 2020

Didn’t the 2008 Obama campaign win some ad awards?

if he wins the ad award that means he can beat trump

maybe pete should have learned english before he went on to (ahem) ‘learn’ all those other languages because what the fuck is this gibberish

pic.twitter.com/YFabqLoUCL

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) February 12, 2020

I don't know if you all saw this but Yang dropped out.

Notre Dame, legendary center of industry.

Incredible pivot from starting out as the egghead candidate to trying to embody a bad Bruce Springsteen song.

Winning was a huge blow to Sanders tonight. Buttigieg lost, which is clearly a win for him, especially losing to Sanders, to whom he's lost twice now, making Sanders' win even more disappointing. Team Sanders needs a big loss to win next time

— Brendan James (@deep_beige) February 12, 2020

I'm not giving up on Warren yet. Now that the two media primaries are over, the real campaign begins. Klobuchar and the Booty Judge are gonna get blown the fuck out in South Carolina. I don't even have a theory about what Biden's gonna do.