If Sanders manages to secure the nomination, he will have alienated so many Democrats that he will have a hard time securing some Democratic votes in a general election. Watch for Bloomberg to run as an Independent in that scenario. |
Actually it doesn’t work that way skippy, but nice try. |
Yep. Heads I win, tails you lose. |
New Monmouth Iowa poll:
Biden 23% Sanders 21% Buttigieg 16% Warren 15% Klobuchar 10% Steyer 4% Yang 3% https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmouthpoll_ia_012920.pdf/ |
Polls for Iowa are weird because its difficult to reliably predict who will show up for the caucus. This is how Obama was able to win Iowa, even though Clinton was the favorite in the polls: Obama had a lot of enthusiasm on the ground with people who were motivated to attend their caucus. I am expecting a Sanders win in Iowa, given the ferocity of his base. However, I think Sanders collapses in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday. |
DP, not literally, but effectively, you are. |
Completely - you vote D or you are voting Trump. Why you wouldn’t support any of the Democrats over Trump baffles me. |
DP: Voting for Bernie IS voting for Trump. He stands no chance in the general. |
GOOD GRIEF is this your source of confusion? We’re talking about the general, not the primary. Vote your conscience in the primary, vote blue in November because your choice then is binary: Blue or Trump. |
GOOD GRIEF are you deaf? What previous PP and I are telling you is, give us a competent, non-crazy-leftie Dem. If that's all you offer, Trump wins and YOU are responsible for not offering a better option. |
Stop the moralizing bad math! If someone stays home, they clearly don’t add to the Democrats’ totals. But they also don’t add to Trump’s totals, which actually requires voting. Those of you who are so sure almost any Democrat is better than Trump need to support the Democrat who moves the most new people in swing states and I. areas outside of the Democrats’ high-income enclaves to vote for the Democrats. And that includes the possibility that it’s a candidate, like Sanders or Gabbard, that upsets many perennial knee-jerk Democrats. |
NBC/WSJ poll: 2020 matchups
Biden 50%, Trump 44% Sanders 49%, Trump 45% Warren 48%, Trump 45% Buttigieg 46%, Trump 45% When narrowed to 11 battlegrounds: AZ CO FL ME MI MN NV NH NC PA WI Biden 49, Trump 44% Sanders 49%, Trump 46% Trump 49%, Warren 48%, Trump 47%, Buttigieg 46% |
Nope, that is on you. Either vote for a crazy lefty of vote for Trump. Personally, I would vote for a steaming pile of dog excrement over Trump. At least that can serve as fertilizer and be useful |
I think Sanders takes Iowa and NH. Biden takes SC.
Bloomberg capitalizes on the confusion and people who are afraid that Sanders may be gaining steam, drop their support of Biden and throw it to Bloomberg who seems so enegetic and coherent compared to Biden. I think Bloomberg vs. Sanders becomes a huge clash ... with a lot of fallout. Bloomberg takes the nomination, but will the dejected Bernie supporters get onboard? I fear they will not. |