Ready The Clown Car: The First Batch of Democrats Are Ready To Announce Their 2020 Bids

Exactly. I will give credit to Trump for getting a HUGE change made successfully but I do not think it is remotely an overall positive for those that actually work and do not own the means of production.

The size of the cut hits home when families realize they are essentially paying almost twenty dollars a day for it. That is a lot of money.

As for Sanders....... he is insane. While I do not doubt that there would be benefits to society with what he wants to do, the cost is so shocking that it could very well destroy the economy. I cannot image what the actual tax costs would be, the individual tax cost would have to double...... which would mean that homeowners with mortgages lose their homes, and that messes up the housing market.... people have less money to buy cars, etc. Businesses would leave the USA. For awhile everything would be absolute chaos.

Would it be better for those that live in poverty? Absolutely..... better for those that work minimum wage jobs or are on disability? Yes I think so..... would it be better for everyone else? No, I really don't think so.

 

No question people become more conservative as they age, and at the time time political parties are also adapting to keep it competitive. We can look at issues like gay marriage, when some of the older voters died; and the issue become a real negative for republican party.... they dropped it from their platform and it no longer was a hot topic. Essentially the pro-gay marriage crowd won and everyone moved onto other issues.

Typically, the parties are constantly moving on the edges to maximize election prospects. However that is hard to do with a two term president....... we saw that with Clinton and GW. However, in the case of Trump he is extremely reliant on older voters and he is very polarizing so the possible short term fall off is 2024 could be extreme.

As for 2020 I am fairly confident that Trump will be re-elected absent a complete smoking gun for impeachment (which sadly is possible) or the economy goes into a tail spin. All he has to do is avoid children in cages and overly racist comments or corruption for the months leading up to the election and he has a good shot. We also don't know what dirt will come out from the Democratic nominee. I think many of them likely would be fairly clean but Biden is an old school politician and there will be more issues that come up. Some things that were accepted 10-20 years ago no longer will be. He never should have supported his son working for the Ukrainian energy company. Was it illegal? No, but it was poor judgment.

 

Population: You.

Anyway, if it was an American university, I'd say no problem she can still run. But signing up with a foreign university? That strikes me as a pretty strong signal that she's done with politics.

 

The form is a bit leading with the dumb way of framing the question. But, how the candidates feel about the strike is probably pretty relevant to the race. They need to be careful though about going too far trying to play armchair quarterback on foreign affairs. I'd hate for Iran (or Russia or the other powers) to get a firm idea of what the next Democratic president would do.

 

Because it wasn't a similar strike! There's a world of difference between drone striking an Anwar al-alwaki or a Taliban leader in butt **** nowhere versus killing the leader of an organized military group formally recognized by a government that- if not friendly- is largely recognized as the government of a foreign country.

 

Why is that?

Also, I don't know of any assassination akin to this one.

 

Bloomberg must have a ton of closet supporters. Steyer, too, to some degree. I’ve yet to encounter somebody that’s openly supporting either candidate.

Granted, this is all anecdotal on my end.

 

Bernie kicking ass Liz hasn't earned anything.

 

Blue on blue on blue. Great work graphics team.....

 

Reminds me of the SNL skit with Sudeikis playing Mitt Romney and pretending like he’s ever eaten at a “Mack Donalds”.

 

lol. at least he isnt native new yorker trump eating pizza with a fork!



and kfc with fancy silverware!


and a burrito bowl for cinco de mayo!

 

perhaps a glimpse of how Bloomberg could make a real run at it . . . the main candidates blow all their money early and Bloomberg sweeps down and starts dropping some real money

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/06/democrats-post-super-tuesday-scramble-093743

excerpt:

Democrats are now beginning to confront a very real scenario where the nomination — and the winnowing — will not be decided in states where campaigns have been plowing ground for more than a year, but in places and calendar dates so deep into primary season that until recently they’ve received almost no attention at all.

The Iowa field is bunched together with little daylight between a handful of well-funded candidates. Each of the four early voting states continues to present the prospect of a different winner. And, at the end of that gauntlet on Super Tuesday, a free-spending billionaire — Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor — is waiting to challenge whichever candidate or candidates emerge.​

 

All of these analysts base their theories on the believe that Joe Biden isn't going to win.

It's more plausible that Biden wins Iowa, SC and Nevada and basically ends the nominating process than it is that there is total chaos and Bloomberg gets to swoop in there is a divided convention.

Every one of these theories is built on this idea that sooner or later Biden will fade.

 

Gotta say, from my angle it feels like Biden is getting stronger. I thought he would fade and he hasn't.

Also, even if the early votes are divided, I'm still not convinced that the nomination can be simply bought.