Dems obsess over finding candidate to beat Trump
The Hill [DC],
by
Amie Parnes
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/22/2019 6:06:14 AM
Democrats obsessed with finding a candidate who can defeat President Trump are showing a willingness to give up their preferred candidates for the one they believe is the most electable. It´s an important trend that will leave many in the Democratic field touting their strengths in a potential general election — and could be particularly helpful to a candidate such as former Vice President Joe Biden, who is expected to put electability at the center of his campaign push when he enters the race next week. A Monmouth University poll in February found that 56 percent of those surveyed preferred electability
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/22/2019 7:19:15 AM (No. 41477)
The fact that “Plugs” Biden is probably the Dems best chance in 2020 underscores just how far down the crapper the donkey party has traveled. When “Plugs” isn’t preoccupied groping and smelling, he focuses on being wrong about everything.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/22/2019 7:50:18 AM (No. 41482)
Biden´s ´electability´ is proven by his failure to do so three times against far weaker opponents. To that, I would add ´Sssssshhhhhhhhhh!´.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/22/2019 8:17:02 AM (No. 41485)
Ah, but will the AOC crowd of millennials vote for a pasty old white man? The left has PCed their way into a lose-lose situation. Identity politics and socialism are butting heads with electability. For once, 0bama was right - it’s a circular firing squad. And a thing of beauty.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
cThree 4/22/2019 8:23:25 AM (No. 41470)
"Electability" is a quiet way of saying driving the Party off a leftwing ideological cliff isn´t the answer.
Neither is identity politics, though you wouldn´t know it from this piece by Ms Parnes, which counts white men like Biden as a retreat in the face of misogyny and so on. *yawn*
And the Dems are afraid Biden has failed for good reason, and Sanders will, too.
What to do, what to do...
They´ll do what they´ll often done: look for the "fresh face," the blank slate, the handsome, charismatic but most important unknown "phenom."
The John Edwards, the Barry Obama, the Beto O´Rourke (that didn´t last long...), the Pete Buttigieg, hotter than hot at the moment.
The ranks are so thin they´re scouring mayorships for presidential candidates. They´ve got two, one gay, one black.
Let that sink in. They are a caricature of a political party.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
raspberry 4/22/2019 8:58:21 AM (No. 41489)
The Democrat Party once was strong, political and very savvy. They won elections consistently. Now they are weak, unorganized and not smart and the Leftists control them. There is no leadership? Where is their Dark Horse candidate? Only a miracle from their past can help them. Trump cannot be beaten with what they have now.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/22/2019 9:37:59 AM (No. 41474)
A note to the dims, RINOS, msm, and the deep state in general - give it up. You can´t and won´t win. There´s more of us than there are of you. Even the dead people have decided to rest in peace and not vote next time.
You lose. America wins and goes forward.
MAGA 2
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/22/2019 9:49:27 AM (No. 41471)
Jimmuh is still alive - - and eligible.
He did it once - - he can do it again!
And just imagine how much more Amy knows now about nuclear warfare - - than she did when she was nine years old.
Jimmuh! Jimmuh! Jimmuh!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/22/2019 9:59:19 AM (No. 41480)
Plugs Biden could win the primary but the Bernie Sanders crowd and blacks will stay home.
The old white, hair sniffing guy doesn´t have the appeal to many left in the democrat party.
The democrats are hoping for a ´sleeper cell´ to appear but Biden ain´t it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 4/22/2019 12:44:46 PM (No. 41486)
"Intersectionality" is killing the Democratic party. And sunlight.
They insist on viewing candidates through a lens that only sees victimhood. Black, female, gay, Hispanic, whomever is the next group to claim victimhood. It makes me laugh that for all their virtue-signaling, the top three candidates are...white men.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/22/2019 12:51:16 PM (No. 41483)
A poll published today has PT approval rate down to 39%. Last week another poll had Our President over 50%. Don´t know what to believe. All the dims have is hate. Can they maintain it for 2 more years? PT put money in my pocket, hasn´t got us into any new wars, and is trying to secure our borders. One reason why he isn´t more popular is he is not a politician. Politicians don´t directly attack people. They have others do it for them and remain above the fray. But at my age I´ll be happy just to make it to 2020.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/22/2019 1:20:47 PM (No. 41473)
If there is a person alive in this country who could compete against Donald Trump he will not be a democrat. We can write off all of the democrats but the danger is in complacence. We still need to get out and vote like we did in 2016. I´m waiting for the GOP to run somebody against him and then we can dismantle that ancient old boys club stick by stick by starving them of money. That play will not fly and I hope they are smart enough to realize it.
The polling is so far out of the park that I no longer pay attention. The Republicans are polling me so often that I got bored and throw them in the trash or delete the e-mail. The phone calls go unanswered. I´ve already answered their questions once, I´m not likely to change my mind on immigration, Climate Change, taxes or national security anytime soon. The real poll is the one taken in November of 2020. We will either enjoy four more years of greatness and prosperity or we will die as a country.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
gorzabozo 4/22/2019 1:48:11 PM (No. 41472)
Remember Dims, Hillary is waiting in the wings to jump in to save you from yourselves. All you Dims have to do is chant "Hill-a-ree!" over and over again on the convention floor. Drown out anyone who approaches the podium except "Her Shrillness." She will swoop onto the convention stage, stride confidently to the podium and deliver a rousing, awe-inspiring speech that will galvanize the Dims and Repubs around her royal heinous and save all of us from ourselves. Yeah.....that´s the ticket! (hat tip to John Lovett and that ´heinous´ was not a typo)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
gop_guys 4/22/2019 2:00:13 PM (No. 41476)
Leftie bumper sticker down her in Austin:
"Any Functioning Adult"
2020
Meant to slam President Trump. I read it all together different. Apparently, no one is running against him! Bring on the clown car!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Franz 4/22/2019 4:13:30 PM (No. 41488)
The Democrats need to find somebody reasonably intelligent, and patriotic.
So far, I have not seen anybody in the Democrat field of candidates that meets this criteria.
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When the base believes that:
-Man can control the weather and the sun
-That race relations have not advanced since 1968
-That male can be become female and vice versa
-That expensive things should be made inexpensive at the stroke of a pen and that both should really be ´free´
-That a First World nation can grow and thrive by importing the Third World
-That government replacing the mob as the facilitator and provider of gambling, drugs and vice is the best way forward
-That it´s mere coincidence that the best drugs, surgery and medical tech are in the US
How is it remotely possible for a candidate to claim these things with a straight face and to explain how they will be implemented, funded and/or administered?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/22/2019 7:22:14 PM (No. 41481)
Has someone delivered the news to Bernie? I suspect they think that a Communist is probably not electable. This is a DNC slippery way to shift the party to block Bernie and other Leftists. "It´s not the DNC that doesn´t want Bernie (again)Z. It´s just that he´s not electable, ya see. Sorry." Given the irrationality of hard Leftists, it is absurd to think they are going to buy this. All 19 candidates are going to claim they are electable.
The party elite KNOW this the clown car is heading over the cliff with all the smurfs inside and the party as well. So do many media elite. They are trying to slam on the brakes and steer a bit right but it isn´t going to work.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/22/2019 10:02:20 PM (No. 41478)
The rat party is the clown car party is the commie party is the hypocrite party is the fake news party is the liar party is the fraud party is the race-baiting party is the immoral party is the unethical party is the deviant party is the fascist party is the....
Stop me if you´ve heard this rant before!
Veterans for TRUMP 2020
Drive them all NUTS!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/22/2019 11:26:42 PM (No. 41487)
Biden´s biggest hurdle will be the human strain of Hoof-in-Mouth disease. Feeling fannies and sniffing shampoo are assets compared to his gaff-machine output.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
anonymous 4/22/2019 11:30:48 PM (No. 41475)
None of the Democrats will beat Trump if they stick to their open-border policies. Trump also has the advantage of incumbency. To beat an incumbent, you have to jump an extra hurdle.
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