The surprises so far in
the 2020 Democratic race
by
Michael Barone
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
12/14/2019 4:21:22 AM
Some recent news stories verge on the bizarre: the House Democrats’ futile fuss over impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s acceptance of President Trump’s US-Canada-Mexico trade treaty. But they’re not as bizarre, or possibly as consequential, as unanticipated developments in the Democrats’ presidential nomination contest.
Consider the role of money, which Democrats are always saying plays too big a role in politics. This year, it plainly isn’t. Their two billionaire late entrants, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, aren’t running away with the contest.
Steyer is at 1.7% in the RealClearPolitics average, and Bloomberg’s 5.5% surely owes as much to his formidable three terms as New York mayor
Reply 1 - Posted by:
HotRod 12/14/2019 8:26:33 AM (No. 261839)
Hehe, if PIAPS tried to swoop in and get the nomination, she would probably do a face-plant 10 feet short of the stage! Besides, I think she is too moderate for the wacked-out radicals in her party.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/14/2019 8:32:02 AM (No. 261842)
PIAPS is in no way moderate - she just tries to portray herself that way in order to dupe the voters. Besides, after the scam she pulled on Bernie in 2016, I don’t think that either he, Warren or Biden would let her anywhere near the nomination. Nor would their voters. She can try it, but all she will do is fracture the already shaky party into thousands of small angry mobs at each other’s throats.
Unless, of course, she has enough dirt on each of the present candidates to blackmail them into dropping out.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/14/2019 8:49:19 AM (No. 261864)
I have always discounted Sanders as being the nominee, but he seems to be holding up better than Warren or the other Lefties. If Biden slips on a banana peel, he may be the only option.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
walcb 12/14/2019 8:49:59 AM (No. 261865)
Domocrats know all about bizarre.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/14/2019 9:08:48 AM (No. 261886)
I don't even pay attention to 'that other party' they're not worth my remaining brain cells. I'll say this Hillary Clinton might have pulled off a coup once on Bernie Sanders in 2016 but it won't happen again or with the other candidates that put their time in campaigning and building followers. If and that's a big 'IF' Clinton stepped in the others will take their supporters and go home they won't switch their loyalty. Hillary Clinton better plan on some big and hugley cheating if she expects to win.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 12/14/2019 9:16:39 AM (No. 261897)
Tom Steyer has an ad going on right now in my area that is so full of high grade manure it isn't funny anymore. What I would like to see is somebody do a thorough autopsy exam on his so called bank. He has got to have paid a great deal of money to hide his secrets, and I am guessing they are doozies. After all, he is a hardcore democrat, and nothing good for America ever comes from that party.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jacksin5 12/14/2019 10:13:42 AM (No. 261965)
It's ok to self-finance your campaign, but always remember the Beatles song, "Money can't buy Me Love".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bamboozle 12/14/2019 10:26:54 AM (No. 261978)
Unless they go to a brokered convention with none of the clowns having a sufficient number of votes I'm not sure I see the pathway that the hag takes to victory since it is pretty late for her to file. As #3 says, thousands of small angry groups at each other's throats. From his lips to God's ears.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/14/2019 11:07:07 AM (No. 262005)
My only surprise is that Biden is still up there talking and groping. He is a pathetic liar and a thief. People said that Trump is insulting but he didn't call anybody a fat, dumb, liar. Well, except for maybe Rosie O'Donnell but she is a fat, dumb, liar. I'm not surprised that Fauxahontas' followers do not understand the math on her list of promises. They are the same people who still think that Obamacare can be fixed. Bernie is just as bad but he is somewhat likeable compared to the fake Indian. As for the extreme candidates, confiscation of AR-15s didn't work, gayness didn't work, a green movement to the Middle Ages didn't work, and open borders didn't work. What else can they promise that will be acceptable and believable? The Socialist Paradise thing has no working examples to use.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/14/2019 11:43:00 AM (No. 262052)
If I could designate individuals as 'national treasures,' Michael Barone would be at the top of my list. So would Senator John Kennedy.
As for Tom Steyer, he is a zero as candidate. So is Michael Bloomberg. No amount of money would allow either of them to be elected president.
Kamala Sutra, on balance, was a zero candidate, as is Miss Corey Booker. Each, I suspect, thought blacks would vote skin color, and each was wrong.
The little Castro twin thought the same about Hispanic voters. He, too, was wrong.
Peter the Homosexual has done the best with identify politics. LBGTQ folks, along with parents of those alphabet people, and friends, may be supporting him. But I doubt he has a chance, since black voters will sink him, and he can go back to his failed term as mayor of a dying city, and cuddle with his husband.
Kirsten Gillibrand - remember the snotty little thing?- learned that women will not automatically support a woman, especially an annoying one.
That leaves one old, confused candidate, riding the tide of mediocrity - Old Jo Biden.
I continue to believe that we will see a brokered convention, and the nominee will be someone not yet mentioned.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
little guy 12/14/2019 11:54:59 AM (No. 262069)
To me the only question is will it be a repeat of McGovern/Nixon or a repeat of Mondale/Reagan. If the former, that means the Dems realize there is no stopping Trump and his re-election is as inevitable as a volcano. Expect them to nominate Warren/Booker knowing they will go down in flames but planting a flag. If they feel there might actually be a fighting chance with a former Veep, then in the latter case it will be Biden/Harris. Also scheduled to go down in flames but not as bad.
I personally don't give a rat's patootie who they lead to slaughter. I will walk over hot coals and crawl over broken glass to vote straight Republican in November 2020 --- from POTUS down to Highway Superintendent and Dog Catcher.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/14/2019 1:18:42 PM (No. 262133)
I think she's too lazy to be President, but so was her husband (?), so I worry that the Mooch wants the perks of AF-1, instead of AF-2. And I worry that Bambie will want his soul brother, Devall Patrick, somewhere in the mix.
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