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

Why are you still arguing about this poll?

I have told numerous times its not about this poll and I am willing to bet Mojo has multiple times said polls don't mean anything or talked about how Hillary was polling ahead of Trump.

But hey I am glad that you found something you agree with Mojo about.

 

Crazy that Emmerson and Suffolk released polls over the same period with similar sample sizes both doing Likely voters and there is a huge difference.

 

A Warren/Sanders national ban on fracking would likely sink their chances in Pennsylvania:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/pennsylvania-democrats-fracking.html

excerpt:

. . . a pledge to ban all hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, could jeopardize any presidential candidate’s chances of winning this most critical of battleground states — and thus the presidency itself. So as Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren woo young environmental voters with a national fracking ban, these two Democrats are uneasy.

“In Pennsylvania, you’re talking hundreds of thousands of related jobs that would be — they would be unemployed overnight,” said Mr. Fetterman, who endorsed Mr. Sanders in 2016 before Donald J. Trump won his state, pop. 12.8 million, by just over 44,000 votes. “Pennsylvania is a margin play,” he added. “And an outright ban on fracking isn’t a margin play.”

Mr. Peduto said “the Warren-Sanders, ban-all-fracking-right-now” position would “absolutely devastate communities throughout the Rust Belt” and pit environmentalists against workers at a time when Democrats need both.

“If a candidate comes into this state and tries to sell that policy, they’re going to have a hard time winning,” he said.
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Warren and Sanders could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and those states will still go for Warren or Sanders

 

Ahhh it seems like yesterday when he was the lefts media darling and frontrunner.

 

https://centeractionfund.org/enviro...XhAv0pIX1OJzmMy-Z3teK4ljsGKcK7jnTqxI3iAfaBa4M

 

Ya know when Warren was a little Native American girl growing up in Oklahoma her mama would tell her (if she said it once, she said it a thousand times) that her grades weren’t that important unless they were and then she grew up, knocked boots, got a belly bump and was unceremoniously shown the door. Long story short she should have been given a plus without having to earn it.

 

Does she also need ghost writers to author her books?

 

Why should we care what the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund has to say about the candidates? Not that I hate them (or heard of them) or anything, just wondering why post this organization out of all special interest groups out there?

 

"If Democrats Really Thought Trump Was An Existential Threat, They’d Moderate Their Extremism":

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/2...ential-threat-theyd-moderate-their-extremism/

excerpt:

Democrats today are similarly ambitious and ideological in their goals. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti admitted the Green New Deal “wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” but they “really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” Not simply content with covering the uninsured, Sen. Bernie Sanders now wants to pass Medicare for All and take away private insurance, competition, and meaningful choice from all Americans.

Suspend reason briefly and imagine a very different election platform. Imagine if Joe Biden, or whatever candidate passes for a moderate Democrat these days, promised a centrist administration. Rather than simply assuming “Never Trumpers” and other swing voters will have no choice but to vote for whatever Democrat gets nominated and against Trump, what if the Democratic Party made defeating Trump more of a priority than implementing its radical agenda designed to appease various far-left groups?

A more sincere Democratic Party could propose an inclusive administration representing the moderate middle, which would frustrate activists at either end of the ideological spectrum. Just as Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama included members of the other party in their Cabinets, Democrats could commit to nominating even more Republicans. It would be perhaps too ironic for Romney, the father of Romneycare, to be named Health and Human Services secretary, given responsibility for overseeing Obamacare.

Democrats could promise to nominate judges acceptable to both the Federalist Society and the American Civil Liberties Union, or alternate between the two if consensus proves impossible, with a promise not to alter the balance of the Supreme Court. Naming a liberal jurist to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be slightly less objectionable to mainstream conservatives than expanding the court or replacing a conservative jurist with a liberal activist.

They could foreswear any sweeping domestic policies or regulations, new entitlement programs, significant new spending or taxes, or foreign policies passed on a partisan vote and insist on truly bipartisan majorities. If they are truly confident in the popular support for their sweeping revamp of American society and its economy, surely that majority will still be there four years hence when the centrist ticket expires.​

 

He was neither of those things.

 

When was he ever a frontrunner?

 

Biden numbers has actually been rising of late.

You continue to be on brand and that brand is continuing to be wrong.

 

Trotting out this same tired argument that AOC somehow represents the majority of the party.

When was the last time she said anything.

 

Maybe those 4 extra votes in Iowa will help him in Iowa.

 

This would be a big problem.

The democrats have an excellent chance of winning Pennsylvania if they back off fracking bans. It is just stupid politically to push hard for it at this point.