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Cpt_Obvious posted:Wtf is donut Twitter. Is it just ex-Hillary staffers and the like? DNC loyalists and other butthurt centrists
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Wtf is donut Twitter. Is it just ex-Hillary staffers and the like? Nina Turner tried to take a platform petition to the DNC. The DNC blocked her entrance with barricades and tried to give her and her group donuts and water. Nina complained that the DNC was trying to buy her off with donuts. Libs and DNC establishment folks then started making fun of her, implying that she was too uppity for donuts. To mock her, lib accounts on twitter started putting the donut emoji on their handle.
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Nairbo posted:When are the first wave of results expected tomorrow? Is it likely they’ll know the winner and delegate count estimates before the next morning? Real results aroudn ~830/9 CST, but there will be preliminary stuff from the first round before that. Less than 23 hours!
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Wtf is donut Twitter. Is it just ex-Hillary staffers and the like? #StillWithHer
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It'll actually be pretty bad if Warren gets second place. If she stays in for Super Tuesday then she's gonna sap votes from Bernie and could cause him to not get a majority. Make no mistakes, she wants to be Bidens VP and to be president in 2024.
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I absolutely see Warren as sticking around until the bitter end. She'll either try another Hail Mary smear against Bernie, or try to scoop up Biden's supporters by claiming the mantle of Most Electable.
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Awful CompSloth posted:It'll actually be pretty bad if Warren gets second place. If she stays in for Super Tuesday then she's gonna sap votes from Bernie and could cause him to not get a majority. Make no mistakes, she wants to be Bidens VP and to be president in 2024. Yeah, these polls showing Warren gaining have been worrying. Warren being in and reasonably strong on Super Tuesday would be really bad.
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I think the surprise tomorrow will be Yang and Sanders turnout. Hopefully Yang gangers go to team Bernie. Sanders walks away with 60% of delegates
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oxsnard posted:I think the surprise tomorrow will be Yang and Sanders turnout. Hopefully Yang gangers go to team Bernie. Followed by Bernie getting 100% of NH apparently https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1224182140881031168?s=21
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oxsnard posted:I think the surprise tomorrow will be Yang and Sanders turnout. Hopefully Yang gangers go to team Bernie. I'm a little concerned that anyone still in the Yang boat at this point would even consider changing their vote. They might just leave, after being told for like the 50th time they can't still vote for Yang. Which raises another question. Can enough people leave that it pushes a candidate who was under 15% to viability without even gaining extra votes?
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It really seems like Sanders is peaking at exactly the right time while everyone else had their moment fade away. It's a little bizarre that it seems to be working out so well. Of course it could all turn out terribly, but I'm surprised that it seems to be going so well right now. I didn't expect to feel so positively going into Iowa.
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gandlethorpe posted:I'm a little concerned that anyone still in the Yang boat at this point would even consider changing their vote. They might just leave, after being told for like the 50th time they can't still vote for Yang. Something like 50% of Yang supporters report Bernie as their second choice. Apparently it's the Tulsi fans who are most likely to just go home.
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joepinetree posted:Nina Turner tried to take a platform petition to the DNC. The DNC blocked her entrance with barricades and tried to give her and her group donuts and water. Nina complained that the DNC was trying to buy her off with donuts. Libs and DNC establishment folks then started making fun of her, implying that she was too uppity for donuts. To mock her, lib accounts on twitter started putting the donut emoji on their handle. I actually didn't know the genesis story, either. This is actually far more hosed than I would have guessed. Built 4 Cuban Linux posted:It really seems like Sanders is peaking at exactly the right time while everyone else had their moment fade away. Naively, it's probably a mix of bad press galvanizing the base for canvassing efforts, money for ad buys, and people starting to move from "don't know" to picking a candidate. guidoanselmi fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Feb 3, 2020 |
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So...am I supposed to see this as a bad thing? Is politico a group against the Bern? Like a good half of the Bernie slanders, if not more, have me going "Wait, that's supposed to be a negative? I thought it was awesome!"
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If Bernie misses 1st in Iowa to Biden, or really anybody even very closely, I worry that the specter of ELECTABILITY is going to rear its head as we go on the road to Super Tuesday. Even a decisive win in New Hampshire won't silence it, the reality that Trump cannot lose without flipping a swing/pink state is going to be a siren song to skitish primary voters. I can see the "Bernie may be the king of the blue states, but can't win Wisconsin/North Carolina/Arizona/Kansas/Georgia, ergo he CAN'T be the nominee," rhetoric now.
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Thanks for this! Ugh, it's pretty gross how libs just handwave her whole controversy as nothing, racist attacks by Trump notwithstanding.
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Built 4 Cuban Linux posted:Real results aroudn ~830/9 CST, but there will be preliminary stuff from the first round before that. Less than 23 hours! I think each precinct has to do boring party poo poo before the speeches & votes for the candidates start so it may be a while before even first-round votes are counted.
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Alkydere posted:So...am I supposed to see this as a bad thing? Is politico a group against the Bern? Like a good half of the Bernie slanders, if not more, have me going "Wait, that's supposed to be a negative? I thought it was awesome!" They'll frame this as an inefficient misallocation of federal resources because those private generators are cheaper to run and offer cheaper electricity.
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I know that canvassers are telling people 2 hours max but that's prolly only if they vote for a viable candidate (which Bernie will be in every precinct).
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Willa Rogers posted:I think each precinct has to do boring party poo poo before the speeches & votes for the candidates start so it may be a while before even first-round votes are counted. The party stuff is after the vote. The only business is electing a chair (who is already actually chosen).
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If I were Yang I would tell my supporters "Back Bernie - he's by far the closest to what I want to do" and go angling for either a Cabinet position with Bern, or perhaps something like heading up a Special Commission to investigate and maybe trial run a UBI proposal. Not that I think UBI is a silver bullet or anything but there's certainly worse policies out there, and some serious modern research into it could gain momentum, as well as just generally move the Overton window a bit (Which to Yang's credit is happening a little as it is). Bernie's by far then other candidate most amenable to thinking about that kind of policy, I'm sure.
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Sanguinia posted:If Bernie misses 1st in Iowa to Biden, or really anybody even very closely, I worry that the specter of ELECTABILITY is going to rear its head as we go on the road to Super Tuesday. Even a decisive win in New Hampshire won't silence it, the reality that Trump cannot lose without flipping a swing/pink state is going to be a siren song to skitish primary voters. I can see the "Bernie may be the king of the blue states, but can't win Wisconsin/North Carolina/Arizona/Kansas/Georgia, ergo he CAN'T be the nominee," rhetoric now. Biden is a ticking time bomb. If the above happens, the hope is that he slips up and ruins his chances during Feb. The reason Bloomberg is even running is because he doesn't trust Biden to hold his sanity together for the whole primary.
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Harrow posted:Something like 50% of Yang supporters report Bernie as their second choice. Apparently it's the Tulsi fans who are most likely to just go home. Aloha.
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Mahoning posted:Just a timely reminder not to pay too much attention to Five Thirty Eight. *extreme Nate Silver voice* "The average person just doesn't understand how statistics works! Our model didn't say the 49er's would win the Superbowl, it just said that in 98 of 100 simulations using our model, they do. That's two in one hundred times the Chiefs win! There's nothing wrong with the model!"
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my boss told me he was going to vote for tulsi because the commander in chief should be a veteran
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pepsi lover posted:my boss told me he was going to vote for tulsi because the commander in chief should be a veteran
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Ms Adequate posted:If I were Yang I would tell my supporters "Back Bernie - he's by far the closest to what I want to do" and go angling for either a Cabinet position with Bern, or perhaps something like heading up a Special Commission to investigate and maybe trial run a UBI proposal. I don't think Yang really has all that much in common with Sanders. He's much closer to Warren, in that he's a pro-capitalism centrist who happens to lean left of the establishment on one or two pet issues, and is trying to take advantage of that to hijack the Bernie wave for himself.
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Sanguinia posted:Its amazing how Biden actually managed to be folksy and charming as VP. He wasn't ALWAYS saying weird poo poo like this, was he? He was significantly more cogent 8 years ago
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Sanguinia posted:Its amazing how Biden actually managed to be folksy and charming as VP. He wasn't ALWAYS saying weird poo poo like this, was he? He was.
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Yudo posted:... What? I'd venture to say he's describing puberty.
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Sanguinia posted:If Bernie misses 1st in Iowa to Biden, or really anybody even very closely, I worry that the specter of ELECTABILITY is going to rear its head as we go on the road to Super Tuesday. Even a decisive win in New Hampshire won't silence it, the reality that Trump cannot lose without flipping a swing/pink state is going to be a siren song to skitish primary voters. I can see the "Bernie may be the king of the blue states, but can't win Wisconsin/North Carolina/Arizona/Kansas/Georgia, ergo he CAN'T be the nominee," rhetoric now. Main Paineframe posted:I don't think Yang really has all that much in common with Sanders. He's much closer to Warren, in that he's a pro-capitalism centrist who happens to lean left of the establishment on one or two pet issues, and is trying to take advantage of that to hijack the Bernie wave for himself.
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Sanguinia posted:If Bernie misses 1st in Iowa to Biden, or really anybody even very closely, I worry that the specter of ELECTABILITY is going to rear its head as we go on the road to Super Tuesday. Even a decisive win in New Hampshire won't silence it, the reality that Trump cannot lose without flipping a swing/pink state is going to be a siren song to skitish primary voters. I can see the "Bernie may be the king of the blue states, but can't win Wisconsin/North Carolina/Arizona/Kansas/Georgia, ergo he CAN'T be the nominee," rhetoric now. Bernie is probably done if he can't win Iowa and NH. I know this thread is super optimistic and I'm not trying to be a downer, but it's the only way he keeps his momentum. The media is going to pile on if he can't carry those two states, especially since Nevada is problematic and SC probably isn't happening for him. It's gotta be today and next Tuesday or we're hosed. No point in being unrealistic about what needs to happen. Sanguinia posted:Its amazing how Biden actually managed to be folksy and charming as VP. He wasn't ALWAYS saying weird poo poo like this, was he? He's worse now, but he was always bad. People fell in love with a character created by the Onion, but real life Joe Biden is a gaffe machine that never managed to get anywhere in previous runs because he repeatedly sticks his foot in his mouth.
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