The 'broad appeal' of the 'progressive movement' (whatever the hell that is) doesn't exist. If it did, you'd run on it and win.
If this is true, they should run together and win in a mammoth landslide.
Yeah, I remember when they did that with Obamacare.......
They did it with Obamacare my friend. Were you not paying attention?
Because these popular agendas are myths.
To me, the most impressive thing about this town hall is that Fox picked the audience members, and Pete still got a standing ovation at the end.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehil...580-biden-sanders-tied-atop-new-iowa-poll?amp
Yup.
Except when you factor in that South Carolina is much aligned politically with states like Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia with high delegate counts that really do matter. Bernie can win all the small podink states in NE and Lower MW he wants but if he doesn’t crack the South and Mid Atlantic he doesn’t stand a chance in hell of winning the nomination.
Electoral Votes... they are more valuable, but not as much for primary votes. Florida itself has 219 delegates up for grabs, Illinois is the biggest Midwest delegate count with 155 and I can tell you for a fact that Bernie wont get the majority of those votes. You look at Ohio with 135 and think the MW matters more, but then you start looking at Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado with under 70. Compare that to Texas and Georgia and you see how irrelevant they can become.
I think what sticks in everyone's mind is the fact that razor thin margins in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which has one foot in the mid-Atlantic and the other in the Midwest, tipped the EC to Trump...
i don't think bernie will make warren quit, i think it will be the other way around.
Bernie was too stubborn to quit last time even though it was over 3 months before the DNC. But I do agree Liz probably gets more delegates than Bernie because atleast she is trying to build a bridge between the moderates and progressives while Bernie is trying to turn the Democratic Party into the far left of the Labor Party. But I think the longer both are in together the more likely that both get curb stomped by Biden, Mayor Pete, and Kamala.
that and she can articulate the policies/ideas she has (and mostly shares with bernie) on a level much better than what you would hear in a dead show parking lot.
It’s not surprising at all. A good chunk of Bernie die hard s are like the kid who grew up in an Alabama family threatening to become an Auburn fan if they don’t get everything on their Christmas list. It doesn’t benefit anyone to make irrational choices because you can’t accept reality.
