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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Booker is a crazy.[/quote]

Booker is an utter moron.
Biden is senile at best.
Bernie is a loon.

Bennet is the best moderate but nobody is paying attention to him.[/quote]

The only solid, moderate Dems are polling at least than 1%.

Speaks volumes at what the party has become.[/quote]

OP agree and that's my fear.  It's obvious Biden has lost a step.  We need to coalesce around an alternative to make sure a progressive doesn't end up with the nom = trump certain victory[/quote]
Your fear is insane. Do you know how many people actually like progressive policies? Do you know that not everyone fears progress? That perhaps after four years of same old same old GOP politics, perhaps the change they want is something non-criminal and substantive? If you really care about defetaingbthe criminal GOP, get involved. Stacey Abrams’s new Fair Fight or any of the other groups fighting vote suppression. Registering voters. Working for whoever the eventual nominee is. [/quote]

lol the progressive viewpoint isn't even a majority in our party and if you include independents it's a total landslide.  Get off twitter and this site.  A majority of Ds aren't progressive[/quote]r
Agree. And what is it with the snide remark about people  "fearing progress"? Get out of your arrogant bubble and you'd see that most people do not see far-left policies as "progress." They see them as weakening,or even destroying, the country. [/quote]
Eh. Every time I ask what policies people think “progressive” means, I get regurgitated Fox talking points. So if you’re going to use GOP framing, I’m going to say you’re not arguing in good faith.[/quote]
Hit submit too fast. Take Warren for example. She’s polling second behind Biden and given that Biden has more name recognition than anyone else in this primary, coalesce around her. If you’re going to call her “too liberal,” cite why - [i]using only quotes from her website.[/i][/quote]

DP: I like Warren a lot. But some of her cornerstone ideas are not popular. Most specifically, Medicare for All. https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer-national-health-plans-and-expanding-access-to-medicare-coverage/

Warren is popular with white liberals. [b]She is less popular with the rest of the electorate. It worries me, when we have a hard election coming up![/b][/quote]

Yes, she is trailing Biden with AA voters, but “There has been some anecdotal evidence that Warren can forge a connection with black voters, especially women, when she gets to address diverse crowds in person. But that has yet to translate into concrete results in the polls.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456862-the-memo-warren-emerges-as-bidens-most-dangerous-rival%3famp She’s trailing but I don’t sense the same hostility that the AA community has toward Buttigieg, for example.[/quote]

No that's true. I don't think she has no shot with AA voters. But my inclination is to support whichever candidate AA voters, white suburban women, and independents seem to like the most. Right now that seems to be Biden - so I am taking with a grain of salt all these calls fro Biden (the front runner) to drop out, and the people claiming he is too old or clumsy or whatever to be elected.

But look - I will vote for my coffee pot if that is the nominee. (To be fair I love coffee.) I don't see myself as needing to love the nominee. I just need them to beat Trump.[/quote]

AA voters tend to coalesce later than white liberal voters.  They didn't coalesce behind Obama until after the Iowa caucus last time around.  While Biden leads the field right now, his numbers are weak.  If you apply historical trends to his current numbers, he's more likely than not to lose the nomination.

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This is PP - and whoever they coalesce around will probably be my choice[/quote]

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