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

Amazing. I’m kind of boggling at the Putin tweet, especially as someone almost instantly replied with a picture of the two of them

IDGAF about credentials because I see no evidence that there are credentials for being the most powerful human being.

American does deserve better, I'm sure the rich are tough and stringy, not to mention that they're already demonstrably lacking in taste. Perhaps the rich could be used as an alternative fuel source, instead?

The rich would be plump like wagyu , you need to render out the fat to make them edible.

It depends if they’re rich people who live on greens or exercise or if they have a diet like Trump.

I assume that Trump tastes like a fistful of Alpo drizzled in Donkey Sauce.

OK I’m tapping out. Can we bring back iatee complaining about the bern please

Tomboto what is the read from the blue-oxford-shirt and khaki pants demographic

just in general

holy shit there's a bunch of those Bloomberg tweets

what idiots

Imagine the taste of a Sheldon Adelson steak.

lol, is someone worried about having skirted defamation law?

To be clear — all of these are satire — with the exception of the 60 Minutes clip from last night.

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 24, 2020

“Vladimir Putin is willing to poison anyone who disagrees with him, but have you seen how that
guy looks without a shirt!! Mmm delish!” --- #BernieOnDespots

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 24, 2020

the staffers are sabotaging his campaign from within

Tomboto what is the read from the blue-oxford-shirt and khaki pants demographic

you don't work at The Gap?

thread delivers

lol just guessin Tombot!

ugh. Not hard to read all the DNC/MSNBC etc handwringing about Bernie being deployed now to elicit this very specific outcome

Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a wide lead in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, according to a new survey from the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling.

The poll shows Biden with 36 percent support in South Carolina, which holds its primary contest on Saturday. He’s trailed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 21 percent.

No other candidate received double-digit support in the survey. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) placed third with 8 percent support, while billionaire activist Tom Steyer and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg tied for fourth with 8 percent each.

The PPP poll is a welcome sign of momentum for Biden, who has struggled with worse-than-expected showing in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary and a distant second-place finish in the Nevada caucuses.

His campaign has long cast South Carolina, however, as a firewall for the former vice president; a state where his strong support among black voters will pay off and propel him into Super Tuesday when more than a dozen states hold their primaries.

Most recent polls have shown a tightening race between Biden and Sanders in South Carolina. A CBS News/YouGov survey released on Sunday showed the former vice president’s lead narrowing to just 5 points. And a Winthrop University poll released last week also showed a 5-point race between Biden and Sanders.

In fact, Biden hasn’t led the field by double digits in polling in South Carolina since an East Carolina University poll earlier this month. That poll, however, was conducted entirely before voting in the Democratic nominating contest actually began.

The PPP poll released Monday also shows Biden holding onto his wide support among black voters, who make up roughly 60 percent of the Democratic electorate in South Carolina. The former vice president received 50 percent support among African Americans in the poll, with Sanders in a distant second place at 21 percent.

Warren and Buttigieg registered only 2 percent support among African Americans in the poll, while Klobuchar came in with 1 percent support.

The PPP poll surveyed 866 likely South Carolina Democratic primary voters from Feb. 23-24. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

If Sanders can't win in the South he's screwed/this is going to get very ugly

OMG, not only are there a host of those 'satirical' tweets on the Bloomberg account today but also a host of documentary evidence on the Bloomberg headquarters being vandalized across the country, almost as if they're offering suggestions on how best to gussy up the one in your town.

I work in an open office full of pen testers and digital forensics specialists. I’m not asking how anybody is voting

I made a really good “pen 15 testing” joke online once

I don't think there's been any expectation of Bernie winning SC? As with Nevada, the horse race story is going to be the margin of victory.

that PPP poll for SC could be an outlier. other recent polls have put biden's margin over sanders at more like +4 to +5

i actually think bernie has a good chance of winning SC. biden used to have a huge margin there, and other than the PPP poll from earlier today, recent polling has shown it tightening up.

Shakey, why is it a surprise? I expected Sanders to lose in SoCal. And Clyburn's going to endorse Biden.

is he, though? i notice he's conspicuously chosen the day after the debate (wednesday) to make his announcement

Bernie would do just fine in the South

He signaled several times he would, and every reporter has said he would; I tend to believe the reporters.

I wonder if that’ll change debate strategy for the other candidates,I figured everyone would be going at Bernie but Biden is probably easier to siphon support from.

.@FLHSMV Should the Senator not be cautioned under Florida law it is illegal to use even hands-free devices in certain zones? @ryaneatscake https://t.co/gOL8GTLfvB

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 24, 2020

lol saw it earlier -- I know where Rubio was drivin

I love how the "vandals" were nice enough to make a sign and tape it to the window so it could easily be removed

pic.twitter.com/3v3e9ax0It

— Jordan Fraade (@schadenfraade) February 24, 2020

also for the tv fans here (i know we have some older posters)

MSNBC plans "to seek out more smart, pro-Sanders voices" amid criticism over coverage, a network executive tells @joepompeo https://t.co/jSMz3UqyEa

— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) February 24, 2020

Shakey, why is it a surprise?

bigger margin than other recent polls, as noted

if the centrists are gonna rally around anyone it'll probably be Biden but I don't see much evidence of that happening just yet

It's hilarious they didn't rally around Biden to begin with.

they did!

they rallied round him until he proved to be less coherent than trump and have blood pouring from his eye on stage

Didn't Biden have a noticeable lack of endorsements + funding problems?

funding definitely trails most of the competition

and then they drifted away, called by the swansongs of the Best Little Boy in the World, That Other Billionaire, and that aunt that nobody likes

xps

sanders/clinton ticket ftw

― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Monday, February 24, 2020 2:34 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Key is to walk the very thin tightrope between a vp that would expand his appeal and a vp that would get the CIA breaking out the heart attack gun day 1

Sanders should pick whichever human being is most annoying to Pete Buttigieg personally. There has to be another young, white, gay politician out there willing to take the job.

tom scocca has been making the point that "the establishment" wouldn't have this problem if they had rallied around warren, which on one level misses the point (lots of the establishment disagree with her on policy), but on the other hand you feel like she would have satisfied that part of the establishment that cares less about policy and more about style. in any case, i'm sure they wish they'd backed her now.

This is the bleak slapstick comedy behind today’s theatrical hostilities between Bernie and the party establishment https://t.co/kNHIfareaw

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) February 22, 2020

A bunch of people who didn’t want to pay more taxes or face corporate regulations decided they could make the demand for universal healthcare and economic justice go away if they kneecapped the more mainstream of the two leftmost candidates

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) February 22, 2020

So they declared a widely acceptable candidate to be unacceptable and dug up Joe Biden’s corpse and sent it shambling out there to draw the normie name-recognition vote away

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) February 22, 2020

If the establishment rallied around Warren it might not have made the slightest difference. The establishment isn't popular!

Think about Peter Sutcliffe's feelings ffs

xp right. the party doesn't decide any more. but to the extent they are a coherent entity with influence over the press etc. (which may be the problem this year) they're pretty influential!

SC polling all over the place, but Biden looks like he will win
Former Vice President Joe Biden's lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in South Carolina has narrowed to just 4 points as the state's presidential primary nears, according to a new NBC News-Marist survey released Monday.

The slim lead is well within the survey's margin of error of 6 percentage points. Twenty-seven percent of likely Democratic primary voters said they favored Biden, while 23 percent said they would support Sanders, who has emerged as the clear front-runner in the race after a decisive victory in the Nevada caucuses.