A contentious primary season with a lot of potential candidates isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it needs to be a fair and open race that focuses on policy and ideas. A candidate that has to make personal attacks instead of making their case on policy are flagging themselves as suspect.
So, with so many running in winner take all primaries, the one who gets the 8% lunatic fringe vote will be a shoo-in. Hmm, that sounds so very familiar somehow.
New law…..candidates may campaign for only six months, spending limits of 100 million each, election day is a two day affair…..no electoral college. Done.
The large number of candidates at this point is a good thing. It’ll shake down to a few favorites, but at the moment, I like what I’m seeing in most of them. None is perfect, but even the worst of them is a vast improvement over what we now have.
It’s way too soon to be painting the lines. We’re really just having a large number of exploratory committees popping up. With Dump in the WH, practically everyone is a viable candidate.
When I was in high school, only two first semester senior students ran for student council. Seeing a terrific opportunity to pad their applications for college, the next semester had around twenty. The winner won by three votes.
Warren is the one the Republicans are scared of. And, she has a solid record of supporting the middle class. I like O’Rourke, too. An abundance of riches, as long as they don’t kill each other off in the primaries. The first time I hear a Democrat dis another Democrat in the primaries, they get marked off my list. It’s a long list, and I can afford to stick with the ones who are smart enough to tell you how good they are, not how bad the other Democrats are.
American voters seem to like movie/television celebrities. It is too late for any the Democratic candidates to appear weekly on our screens in an alt-reality series?
We’re still almost a year away from the first primaries. How about cooling it and get a bit of general policy-making done first, now that we have the House and can be heard?
@Jason Allen, two whole years ago! And he’s changed since then. It just seems odd that your decrying exactly what he did. What Dem. is insulting others at this point?
Concretionist about 5 years ago
“Whatever you do, stay in your lane”?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
I wait till some are gone before I even think about it. I already have several I’d like to vote for.
Daeder about 5 years ago
2020, the year of “Anyone but”.
Jason Allen about 5 years ago
A contentious primary season with a lot of potential candidates isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it needs to be a fair and open race that focuses on policy and ideas. A candidate that has to make personal attacks instead of making their case on policy are flagging themselves as suspect.
Bryan Farht about 5 years ago
Let us wait and see whether this time the election will be fair.
Brian G Premium Member about 5 years ago
So, with so many running in winner take all primaries, the one who gets the 8% lunatic fringe vote will be a shoo-in. Hmm, that sounds so very familiar somehow.
lakerat Premium Member about 5 years ago
Do we still have to wait till the election’s over to start the serious bashing?
Brockie about 5 years ago
New law…..candidates may campaign for only six months, spending limits of 100 million each, election day is a two day affair…..no electoral college. Done.
cdward about 5 years ago
The large number of candidates at this point is a good thing. It’ll shake down to a few favorites, but at the moment, I like what I’m seeing in most of them. None is perfect, but even the worst of them is a vast improvement over what we now have.
preacherman about 5 years ago
It’s way too soon to be painting the lines. We’re really just having a large number of exploratory committees popping up. With Dump in the WH, practically everyone is a viable candidate.
walfishj about 5 years ago
How convenient that you forgot the twelve dwarfs that ran on the Republican side in 2016.
magicwalnut Premium Member about 5 years ago
When I was in high school, only two first semester senior students ran for student council. Seeing a terrific opportunity to pad their applications for college, the next semester had around twenty. The winner won by three votes.
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 5 years ago
What’s the big deal this time? The Republicans had 17 on that first debate stage in ’16.
Diane Lee Premium Member about 5 years ago
Warren is the one the Republicans are scared of. And, she has a solid record of supporting the middle class. I like O’Rourke, too. An abundance of riches, as long as they don’t kill each other off in the primaries. The first time I hear a Democrat dis another Democrat in the primaries, they get marked off my list. It’s a long list, and I can afford to stick with the ones who are smart enough to tell you how good they are, not how bad the other Democrats are.
superposition about 5 years ago
American voters seem to like movie/television celebrities. It is too late for any the Democratic candidates to appear weekly on our screens in an alt-reality series?
martens about 5 years ago
We’re still almost a year away from the first primaries. How about cooling it and get a bit of general policy-making done first, now that we have the House and can be heard?
Coopersdad about 5 years ago
I’ll vote for any candidate who can dislodge tRump from the Oval Office so we can put him in a square cell.
sailor956 about 5 years ago
Pick a party, post comic, repeat every four years.
Satchel,Koko,LDL,Kenny about 5 years ago
@Jason Allen, two whole years ago! And he’s changed since then. It just seems odd that your decrying exactly what he did. What Dem. is insulting others at this point?
NeoconMan about 5 years ago
I saw Klobucher announce yesterday. Powerful stuff.