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

Every trend in the last three years suggests it will comfortably.

I think hatred of Trump is going to be very motivating, whoever the nominee is

I've been saying this all along, but now it's pretty much all I'm clinging to. Biden is a useless hack whose brain is rapidly liquefying. His ability to win primaries in states that he's gonna lose by double digits in the general (South Carolina! Oklahoma! Utah!) is not encouraging.

S’what I’m sayin’. Contra the Biden’s-voters-are-in-red-states notion, or whatever. xps

I hate Trump enough to vote for Biden in November but that’s about as much energy as I’m likely to yield to Joe fucking Biden.

MSNBC calling Colorado for Sanders.

I know Sanders is still in it but he’s gonna have to win a brokered convention now correct? Which, come on

i relish living in a state where it doesn't matter, how 'bout you morbs

^^ my favorite Chic lyric

Ahhhhhh FREAK OUT

White, Black, Puerto Rican, everybody just a-freakin'.

like none of it matters, not our primary, not my vote in the presidential election! wonderful. i'm free

(i can hardly see in front of me)

bernie is going to do very well in CA. he's doing very well by all indications with latino vote and is going to win texas. it's going to be a race for longer than i thought it would (maybe my vote at the end of april will matter) but bernie is not cooked.

xpost Same here, tbh. Though there's always the governor elections, which here (and there) sometimes go GOP, to get excited about.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg-idUSKBN20R0B0

Bloomberg to reassess wipe his ass on White House bid on Wednesday, NBC reports

I live in Virginia now, I’m pissed at the Biden blowout here and I don’t really understand it even after the wave of moderate endorsements and dropouts, but the Elie Mystal article is a tonic and also instructive.

the margin in maine is literally eight votes. I can walk out the door and within one minute run into more people than the margin in maine

meanwhile, my vote is as useless in the primary as it is in the general

Holy shit who exhumed Tom Brokaw? He sounds froggy as fuck

- watching NBC as the results roll in

god help me

I live in Virginia now, I’m pissed at the Biden blowout here and I don’t really understand it even after the wave of moderate endorsements and dropouts, but the Elie Mystal article is a tonic and also instructive.

― thewufs, Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Most stories I've read in the last three years have focused on the Virginia suburbs that quietly and inexorably flipped since Trump became president. How liberal were they? It seemed not enough, but they are blue enough.

Members of Phish, who have known Sanders for decades, jam for him

Fishman made his decision after consulting with his bandmates. Phish, which has a devoted following, usually avoids becoming entangled in politics.

“It’s been a real struggle at times,” Fishman said. “I am a little bit more of an activist.” (Fishman also ran and won a local elected office in Maine in 2017.)

Meanwhile, guitarist Trey Anastasio, he said, “takes the sort of Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Frank Sinatra” approach where you mostly avoid politicians.

“It’s not a matter of right and wrong,” he said. “There are really two different, valid opinions. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I actually lean his way on this.”

After the band huddled, a decision was made: Fishman and bassist Mike Gordon would play at Sanders’s rally on Tuesday as “members of Phish,” but not as Phish.

“The middle ground compromise is that everyone respects everyone's individual activities,” Fishman said. “We aren’t going to have Phish back Bernie Sanders. But if I wear my Bernie Sanders dress on stage, no one says boo about.”

literally everyone i’ve met from vermont is at most two degrees of separation away from phish. even people that do not like their music know their regular sound guy or something.

after the third story i was like... do not care about phish!

Trey Anastasio, exactly as dumb as you'd expect (re: Frankie baby)

He always spoke very highly of you

i believe bernie referred to them as "the fish"

Fishman said he doesn’t mind that Sanders, 78, sometimes refers to his band as “the Phish” rather than “Phish” — a sign that the senator might not be familiar with the the opening chords of “Bathtub Gin” or “Tweezer.”

“I’m not sure if he’s heard a note,” Fishman said, chuckling. “But The Phish? That’s better than some canned response response about how much he loves it.”

oy Liz running in 3rd in MA

yeah lol

xxpost Though here is a clip of a dog named Tuna who is a big fan of Sanders:

pic.twitter.com/41maAVNB5V

— Chris Stedman (@ChrisDStedman) February 8, 2020

crazy how olly from years & years is on stage with bernie

My friend just reported on that her stepdad is still waiting at a polling place in Houston. He got there at 4:50 (CST) and is telling her some weaker and older folks have bailed.

crazy how olly from years & years is on stage with bernie

― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 3, 2020

lol

angling for the soto vote

he needs to shift his angles nyuk nyuk

Biden better pick Warren, Duckworth, or Abrahms, or someone to make me feel ok about voting for him in November

but he'll probably do something dumb as shit like pick Beto and that will be that

I live in the Hampton Roads area (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News Etc.), the second largest metro area in Virginia (after DC, which also encompasses the district itself and Maryland). It’s a polycentric metropolitan region of almost 2 million people, about 3 hrs drive from DC. It’s got the largest military population in the country but it’s solidly and securely blue nowadays. It’s almost 50/50 black/white. I suspect it went overwhelmingly for Biden - most of my students at Christopher Newport University (in Newport News) seem to be Bernie fans, but they’re also mostly from Northern Virginia (DC area), and they may be mostly registered there.

I wanna give bernie a hug

MA has a republican governor so I'd assume warren is off the table

Biden wins Minnesota.

I wanna give bernie a hug

― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 3, 2020

https://media3.giphy.com/media/PkoHHj8pUOeV9QuJvN/source.gif

well, look

Democrats just flipped a state house seat in Maine by 15 points tonight that Trump previously carried by 8 points. Terrible news for Susan Collins.

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 4, 2020

omigfuckinggod did Biden confuse his wife with his sister

How can we say Biden wins Minnesota? Have Hennepin and Ramsey reported as part of the (checks) 35 per cent of the tallied votes?

bernie did very well in cd5 but it's mostly reported; biden is doing very well in less-reported districts but his lead in them is substantial.

Biden's speech reminds me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo5uUaDI1YI

MA is really weird - a solidly blue state for decades that keeps electing Republican governors. I’m from NH, about 3 miles from the MA border, and New England liberalism is a motherfucker - white and Catholic and so weirdly repressed and conservative, but never blatantly religious

xp to k3vin k

omigfuckinggod did Biden confuse his wife with his sister

That’s what people like about him! It’s all part of his charm offensive! The loveable fool!