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

worrying that the 4 centrists are still pulling in 49% collectively

unless three of them drop out in the near future, that doesn't concern me too much

If there is “Stop X” movement, put your money on X.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 25, 2020

This is how @BernieSanders operates. He sends disrupters to @JoeBiden events and now he sends a pack of gypsies to his campaign office to cause a scene.

Is this really what you want, Democrats? https://t.co/XlG0p5KWPE

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) January 28, 2020

Back to the gypsy that I was
To the gypsy that I was

Pobrecito!

In early December, more than 100 members of Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign staff gathered at the South Bend City Church a mile from headquarters for a mandatory half-day retreat about diversity and inclusion. Less than two months remained before the start of voting, a time when most campaigns are focused full-time on politics.

Buttigieg advisers say the retreat was part of an ongoing effort to foster a progressive culture that empowered employees of color. For some of these staff members, however, the workplace itself was a problem, and working for a candidate with so little support from black and Hispanic voters had become demoralizing.

In interviews, current and former staff members of color said they believed that senior Buttigieg officials didn’t listen to their concerns and ideas about the campaign. One said there was a daily “emotional weight” on people of color who felt they were employed in order to help the campaign meet its ambitious diversity targets. Some Hispanic employees felt disrespected when managers asked them to translate text, even if they didn’t speak Spanish.

Who is Chris D. Jackson, aside from a dick?

Ibram X Kendi

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/why-i-fear-a-moderate-candidate/605608/

Like, that this shit has 2,000 likes

Hillary Clinton https://t.co/M5VFcfS9p1

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) January 29, 2020

is testament to the "internet of beefs" theory

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/

No one can seriously believe for a second that Hillary Clinton would support Donald Trump over nominee Sanders, or that Sanders would support Donald Trump over nominee Joe Biden. It's just a huge amount of bullshit people say without believing it in order to elicit "hyuk hyuk you showed 'em" from people on their "side." Fuck it. Sorry.

Not even Morbs would say so.

No, he’d just post the Trump wedding photo again. And again. And again...

It's just a huge amount of bullshit people say without believing it

Like... a joke?

people repeat bullshit without even knowing what it means. and other people believe it

Plus she's had more friendly dinners with Trump than Sanders so I mean...

it's a joke. like most of the rest of her tweets

ted nooooooo

https://i.imgur.com/Uit0Vg1.jpg

in her heart of hearts, she'd like to. to own the Bros. xxp

xp all our heroes end up disappointing us

Brandy is definitely joking.

I don't think that takes away from eephus's point. The joke "works" because it relies on and reinforces her followers' negative opinion of Clinton.

The Biden/Bernie age gap in the Democratic Party continues to be absolutely WILD. Per latest @QuinnipiacPoll Biden wins 5x as many senior Dems as Sanders. Sanders meanwhile wins 17x (!!!) more under 35s than Biden. pic.twitter.com/d0UVsjtYec

— Kristen Soltis Anderson (@KSoltisAnderson) January 29, 2020

Ready for the “Bernie is grooming young voters” attacks

Lol, the seniors have Bloomberg 2nd and Klobuchar 3rd.

Dish of Licorice Allsorts 2020

i can't imagine someone 40 years old supporting biden that sample has to be top heavy

that's some pretty amazing data on both ends -- for it to be really useful wd need more raw numbers (of total voters, how many are in the "younger" tier and how many in the "older"? ) but just by itself it's important imo

shades of the UK's Tory/Labour divide, which is a bit scary tbh

look at those klobuchar numbers tho, she's cracked double figures! it's happening!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPafOEQWAAId_4A?format=jpg&name=large

i've been told i've got some pretty amazing data on both ends.

(waves sonic screwdriver, stares at results)

*drinks screwdriver, dies*

It really seemed to clear to me three months ago that Elizabeth Warren was perfectly positioned to be taken up by leftists, pussy hat-wearers, Obamanauts, Clintonistas, everybody -- I'm not saying everybody has to love Elizabeth Warren but that the plainly wrong "Elizabeth Warren is actually a Republican" position plus the plainly wrong "Elizabeth Warren is poised to wreck the economy with her radical hare-brained free lunch schemes" position together occupy at least half of the primary electorate makes me profoundly depressed.

Maybe I overstate the case, Warren still does extremely well on the "first choice + second choice" question, for all the good it does her.

I'm at the point where I believe that America will elect a female president only when Joni Ernst runs

Nikki Haley has other ideas, I'm sure.

too brown for her base IMO

(I could be wrong but they turned on Bobby Jindal fast enough)

Bobby Jindal, what a proustian madeleine that name is

Elizabeth Warren was perfectly positioned to be taken up by leftists, pussy hat-wearers, Obamanauts, Clintonistas, everybody

"Everybody" coalitions don't last when the sugar wears off.

It really seemed to clear to me three months ago that Elizabeth Warren was perfectly positioned to be taken up by leftists, pussy hat-wearers, Obamanauts, Clintonistas, everybody -- I'm not saying everybody has to love Elizabeth Warren but that the plainly wrong "Elizabeth Warren is actually a Republican" position plus the plainly wrong "Elizabeth Warren is poised to wreck the economy with her radical hare-brained free lunch schemes" position together occupy at least half of the primary electorate makes me profoundly depressed.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, January 29, 2020

A hairbrained acquaintance on FB tried sassing me Monday night by referring to her as "a Reagan Republican."

"hairbrained" is legit amazing

here's some trenchant for ya: america hates women and extra really hates smart women and extra super really plus hates smart women who are going to change shit

"hairbrained" is legit amazing

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP),

according to the photos, the hair looks like it's growing out of his brain.

to be taken up by leftists, pussy hat-wearers,

I don't wear much hats these days as I keep losing them, but I object to this

not just hairbrained, but bias

here's some trenchant for ya: america hates fears women and extra really hates fears smart women and extra super really plus hates fears smart women who are going to change shit

biden rises to 1 in 2 odds (to win overall) in the 538 forecast
helping mitigate my Iowa overoptimism for sanders

"Everybody" coalitions don't last when the sugar wears off.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 9:54 AM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

What does this actually mean?

Also, like it or not, the Democratic Party in 2020 fundamentally relies on coalitions. It's a big-tent party: multi-racial and ideologically diverse. It seems self-evident that a candidate who can appeal to a range of factions within the party would be valuable.

three of the constituencies listed in that post are almost a perfect circle in a 2020 Venn diagram, though

let me try again:

when the candidate starts to qualify her formerly full-throated support of M4A, she will lose some supporters and gain others