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

tammy baldwin seems like the best pick for the general election although as he says the implications for the senate are potentially bad.

he doesn't mention castro. is it worse to endorse warren than be warren from bernie's POV?

please Bernie, dude, no on Tulsi. just NO. i've pleasantly impressed w his campaign instincts this go round, so hopefully he's knows better than to fuck around with a narcissistic grifter like Gabbard.

there's no way Bernie would pick Gabbard

I'm fine with Castro, but he's been dead four years.

no pros, all cons - she brings nothing to the ticket, doesn't expand his base of support, sizable number of Democrats hate her, has no qualifications Bernie doesn't already have, etc.

xps

Doesn't the VP pick rarely come from people who were running to be Pres in the same pack of candidates? Or am I misremembering?

― Position Position, Friday, February 14, 2020 5:23 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk if it's super common but it's def not rare. reagan/bush, obama/biden, im sure there are others.

kerry/edwards

i assume there's data on this, but i figure i'll ask a bunch of people whose opinions i mostly don't respect: does picking a VP candidate on the basis they will bring a state/region actually work?

JFK/LBJ

i feel like besides Bush/Cheney it's been concurrent primary candidates almost exclusively for decades now?

i think what's rare is when they don't actually kind of (or very much) hate each other, eg Obama/ Biden

I've seen people argue both ways - doesn't really matter on a state to state basis then there's
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/26/this-research-shows-that-vice-presidential-candidates-actually-do-win-votes-in-their-home-states/

i hope i don't regret saying this, but if anyone wants 34c for free then you should know that bloomberg is leading the betting markets

BLOOMBERG PULLS AHEAD OF BERNIE IN BETTING MARKETS pic.twitter.com/bLNNN9k4Dz

— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) February 14, 2020

Just checking (in regard to the terrible lack of power of a VP) - am I the only one remembering that Bernie had an actual heart attack last year?

a lot of people have heart attacks

it's fine, he has four baboon hearts now

These are the days of miracle and wonder

The boy in the bubble and the Bernie with a baboon heart

A loose affiliation of hundredaires and thousandaires

(Sorry, stopping now)

Bernie was running a good campaign with three chambers of his heart pumping away and now he’s blasting to the lead on all four cylinders

I heard a rumor he had a nitro boost button installed too

irl giggle @ rhymin' puffin

DeBlasio to endorse Bernie. This should be a fun year!

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/14/de-blasio-to-endorse-sanders-115138

deblasio endorsement is proof the establishment is trying to take him down

why do people care about the betting markets again?

i feel like besides Bush/Cheney it's been concurrent primary candidates almost exclusively for decades now?

i think what's rare is when they don't actually kind of (or very much) hate each other, eg Obama/ Biden

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, February 14, 2020 5:48 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

from what i can gather: pence, kaine, palin, cheney, lieberman, kemp, gore, quayle, bentsen

yeah, I wd send deBlasio to campaign in American Samoa maybe

why do people care about the betting markets again?

from what i can gather: pence, kaine, palin, cheney, lieberman, kemp, gore, quayle, bentsen

life of me*

he did get a single vote at the DNC for some reason

Gore ran in '88. I remember that Ed Koch endorsed him bcz Israel. (In some circles Gore's nickname was "the senator from Likud.")

which circles were those

the circle that's a venn diagram of morbs and dennis perrin

NO.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8007521/Mike-Bloomberg-wants-Hillary-Clinton-running-mate-say-sources.html?fbclid=IwAR057JISGvPfeJd0GcsWbXY693n7keekV5b3--azo6JAXbQzWgO2sUUblpg

In which case: Kissinger as Secretary of State

the full Telemundo interview w/ Klobuchar is tougher. Good on Guadalupe Venegas for pressing.
GV: Do you, I'm sorry to ask this, but do you know who he is? Do you know his name?
AK: Yeah, yeah— I know that he is the Mexican president.
GV: But can you tell me his name?
AK: No. pic.twitter.com/0g3MTzDUYr

— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) February 15, 2020

it's sad, you just know a staffer is gonna get fired for this, beaten, and then fired

And then cooked and eaten with a hair-care implement

Oh boy. Telemundo write-up says Klobuchar ended the interview early (so abruptly she took her mic with her). that day, she did name AMLO in another interview and then came back to Venegas to say: "So you see that I know more than you think"

YES

Lmaoooo

Lopez KLObrador morelike

AMYLO is right there too

Biden's sent three more "gimme $5" emails since my last megapost

I'll Come Right to the Point: A thread for political e-mail speak

I'd expect a Biden email to say 'I'm not going to dilly-dally or shilly-shally or dance around the Maypole before I spit it out'.

They're usually in caveman speak

That's why he's my candidate

nice

Verbatim of @BernieSanders going after Bloomberg in Las Vegas just now pic.twitter.com/6qsxpONT5u

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 16, 2020

Good call hitting him on the redlining quote

something something WHAT ABOUT UNITY something something

which circles were those

ppl whose noses weren't up Z*****t ass

Shocker. https://t.co/IOgStfajHX

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) February 15, 2020

I take today's "Sanders might choose TULSI GABBARD as VP" float as hostile anti-Sanders disinfo exactly parallel to the anti-Bloomberg "Bloomberg might choose HILLARY CLINTON' floated by Drudge the other day. Just people out there methodically taking each Democrat and attaching to them the person with the highest negatives who might from 10,000 away seem like a plausible running mate. If De Blasio had had a real campaign they'd have said he was considering Al Sharpton. If Biden's campaign survives they'll probably say he's considering Hunter. I wonder who they'll come up with for Buttigieg if he makes it through Super Tuesday?