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

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xp: I'm sorry, as what

There's a compare the candidates meme with Bernie and Petey and their reactions to "Paris Is Burning."

You have to search for it, though, so it really might be an issue of timeline curation.

This whole package on politics-as-fandom was pretty good:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/arts/how-fan-culture-is-swallowing-democracy.html

xp The horny Beto tweet is so much better than all that has come since.

Ojeda and Avenatti as candidates are like the guy who thinks good sex is pumping away while you’re making a grocery list in your head wondering when he’ll be done.

O’Rourke is like the guy who is all sweet and nerdy but holds you down and makes you cum until your calves cramp.

— Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈 (@leahmcelrath) November 12, 2018

uh

The safest thing is probably just to think of the nomination as a toss-up between Sanders and Biden now.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 2, 2020

I'm not sure if our model will say that, but **it's getting pretty close to saying that** and the factors it isn't considering (i.e. that Biden could pick up a disproportionate share of Klobuchar and Buttigieg voters) would likely push it in that direction.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 2, 2020

someday I will realize that when these questions come into my brain, I don't actually want to ask them

as a general ballpark what % of ppl have already voted?

Klobuchar out

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 2, 2020 1:34 PM bookmarkflaglink

She had a staffer shave her legs for this?

a centrist will lose to Trump (like last time)

hence sticking it to them and beating him are the same

QED

OCD more like

Hoping for a cage match between Petey and Klob for the right to be Biden's VP.

countdown to Booty's "yer likeable enough, Amy" tweet

a friend speculated that as soon as she realized she'd have no more opportunities to torment Pete, Klobs lost interest

so the DNC types are rrrreally pushing their chips back to Drooling Joe

i guess bcz Bloomie is accountable to no one

Do all these people dropping out improve the case for Warren at all or is she still toast?

xp: I'm sorry, as what

Do all these people dropping out improve the case for Warren at all or is she still toast?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, March 2, 2020 12:50 PM (five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think Bernie is the only person whose departure from the race could improve the case for Warren.

I mean, everyone benefits from a smaller field, but I don't think she stands to gain significant ground.

Going to be loads of pressure on Warren to go now, right? I mean, more than before.

I just have not seen any realistic path to victory for her.

She's still picking up good endorsements and just dropped another plan today (farmworkers and food chain workers). I hope she sticks around til the end.

We'll see if she loses Mass. or not.

Neither Biden nor Sanders really needs her to drop out, I don't think, so I don't think their campaigns would do her the indignity of dangling inducements in front of her? xxp

I don't know what she "is" now: a female alternative to Sanders without a heart condition and believes in the system or a Not Biden? She's in an interzone.

the Mama Plan Interzone

Warren’s strategy, laid out in conversations with more than a half-dozen of her aides and close allies, relies largely on outlasting several of her less well-financed rivals and trying to collect their supporters when they drop out. One aide told POLITICO that the campaign thinks multiple candidates will withdraw in the next seven to 10 days, shaking up the race.

the plan begins

what kind of chess is this

collect all five! from Hasbro

if she picked up ALL of Pete's and Amy's supporters she'd be a point or two ahead of Sanders

I wonder if she thought she might get her endorsement.

Surely not.

until i saw DJP was the poster i interpreted "singing acquaintance" as "an acquaintance, but they sing at all times instead of talking." like the acquaintance equivalent of a singing telegram.

Pete & Amy both endorsing Biden, btw

seems like a bad weekend for Bernie but I guess it'll be clearer tomorrow

Oh no the coveted Klobuchar endorsement, bye bye Bernie

Maybe Pete and Amy dropping out is all part of Warren's......... plan

literally every conversation about this rn is a fuckin nightmare

wait for tuesday you assholes (not specifically directed at you assholes)

Brad otm

Harry Reid endorses Biden

Trying to keep in mind that when this is down to sanders vs Biden, the enthusiasm gap will be unmistakable

I don't think that's true actually

but let's find out!

brad p much always otm

At least when it’s Bernie vs Biden nobody can resort to accusations of sexism when ppl start arguing that Biden would lose to Trump (how’s that for an enthusiasm gap)

Bidenthusiasm

srsly this shows why the establishment Dems need to die fast

Wasn't Sanders projected to win in a majority of states by a decent margin tomorrow (and then possibly in several others by a slightly slimmer margin)? With Buttigieg and Klobuchar projected to not really do a whole lot? I mean, I guess the double drop-out could push it to Biden but it hardly seems like a sure thing.