Your 2020 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

I don't think it was a question of political capital as much as Obama didn't have leverage over the hawks in his party who wanted to block him over it, and had the authority to do so. The president is not an autocrat.

and I thought the transfer thing was because the Senators of the states they were gonna get transferred to objected and blocked them

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius) at 11:07 30 Jan 19

just deliverin' some Realism milkshakes today


2 Morbz 1 Cup

gross

sorry shakes Puritanism is alive and well

lol

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/why-obama-has-failed-to-close-guantanamo

multiple "viral" 80s Bernie vids making the rounds lately but none seem particularly damning (or interesting)

where someone did the dramatic heel turn and reversed a stance upon getting safely elected?

this happens all the time

There's a good case to be made that Trump made half a dozen outrageous promises while campaigning, such as 'every one will have great medical insurance and it will be cheaper, too', then transparently did the opposite, but he was transparently conning people in a way rarely seen before.

In general, presidents reverse themselves far less often than Congressional reps, who arrive in Congress and discover they have almost no power as individuals and they need to compromise their positions to fall in line with their party or to horse trade their vote. By contrast, the president has the power to do more things by fiat and doesn't need to heel turn to fall in line.

I'm sure Jim in vancouver sees it more in Canadian politics than we do in the USA, because parliamentary politics are differently structured than here.

This @PeterBeinart piece gets to something that has always bugged me: She was seen as a lackluster campaigner until she beat Scott Brown, then a dynamic campaigner when she didn't challenge Hillary, and now a "school marm" campaigner because uh reasons https://t.co/qmh9YRNbxf

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 9, 2019

My hot take on Warren is that she indeed damaged herself (years ago) with the Indian heritage claim, and that this has hurt her in polling, but that polling is being mis-read by people assume she's not a good campaigner. She is *very* good on the stump.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 9, 2019

why bump this thread and not the other one

it all goes to the same place in the end

Forgive me

Current List:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/politics/2020-democrats-running-for-president/index.html

Yes. Still 19 candidates.

And also for all of my degenerate friends:
https://www.oddsshark.com/other/2020-usa-presidential-odds-futures

although I like this, because it's graphical
https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/politics/democratic-party-presidential-nominee-odds/

Didn't realize Beto had so much money.