Nobody can accurately predict the future. And pollsters generally are sort of almost good at getting results that turn out to be explainable after the fact. So, we do our best to predict outcomes such as presidential elections. With at most moderate success.
Here’s what really matters: Any of the remaining Democrat presidential candidates will probably beat the pee-resident. Most of the folks who won’t vote for Sanders, in my opinion won’t vote for Trump either. And Sanders does excite a good many young people who are not very likely to vote at all unless they get to vote for Bernie or have some more local reason. On the other hand, Biden seems to be more likely to pull in the black voters… who, I think, will vote for whichever Democrat in the actual election. Similar calculations for Bloobmerg, Warren, Klobuchar.
But here’s the real bottom line: The President actually has only a little to say about what the legislators do. So we don’t need someone who’s a great debater, or has the ideas that most closely resonate with our preferences. We need someone who will beat the Big Orange Mistake… and work well with congress… and promise right now to appoint a lot of the current candidates to important cabinet positions, so we can all feel good that ‘our’ candidate will be working to make the nation better.
I have no issue with Bernie’s ideas. I love utopian fiction. The problem for me is the intellectual dishonesty of claiming his grand ideas can be implemented. I may tend towards liberal and democratic party, but I am also practical and logical and fairly pragmatic. Also, promising things that can’t be done is outright lying.
I have no problem with Sanders’ ideas, but I do have a problem with his apparent inability to pull people together to get these ideas implemented and his apparent disdain for those with different ideas. I also don’t like his constant criticism of the DNC party apparatus from which he is in fact benefiting in his run for the nomination. Without acceptance by that apparatus as an independent, he would not be in the running.
All the remaining Democrats running for the nomination beat tiny by 3 to 6 points in polls. We’ll see what happens after the convention when President Obama throws in his support. Tiny will be so distracted that he won’t notice that he is being whupped.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
Nobody can accurately predict the future. And pollsters generally are sort of almost good at getting results that turn out to be explainable after the fact. So, we do our best to predict outcomes such as presidential elections. With at most moderate success.
Here’s what really matters: Any of the remaining Democrat presidential candidates will probably beat the pee-resident. Most of the folks who won’t vote for Sanders, in my opinion won’t vote for Trump either. And Sanders does excite a good many young people who are not very likely to vote at all unless they get to vote for Bernie or have some more local reason. On the other hand, Biden seems to be more likely to pull in the black voters… who, I think, will vote for whichever Democrat in the actual election. Similar calculations for Bloobmerg, Warren, Klobuchar.
But here’s the real bottom line: The President actually has only a little to say about what the legislators do. So we don’t need someone who’s a great debater, or has the ideas that most closely resonate with our preferences. We need someone who will beat the Big Orange Mistake… and work well with congress… and promise right now to appoint a lot of the current candidates to important cabinet positions, so we can all feel good that ‘our’ candidate will be working to make the nation better.
tims145 about 4 years ago
You keep forgetting, Ted. Bernie’s not a Democrat and never has been one. But you keep tilting at that windmill. Never stop being you!
StackableContainers about 4 years ago
I have no issue with Bernie’s ideas. I love utopian fiction. The problem for me is the intellectual dishonesty of claiming his grand ideas can be implemented. I may tend towards liberal and democratic party, but I am also practical and logical and fairly pragmatic. Also, promising things that can’t be done is outright lying.
martens about 4 years ago
I have no problem with Sanders’ ideas, but I do have a problem with his apparent inability to pull people together to get these ideas implemented and his apparent disdain for those with different ideas. I also don’t like his constant criticism of the DNC party apparatus from which he is in fact benefiting in his run for the nomination. Without acceptance by that apparatus as an independent, he would not be in the running.
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
Out with the old, in with the new, throw the bums out, vote blue no matter who.
jvscanlan Premium Member about 4 years ago
Bernie’s bubble like his ideas . . . The rest of us want four years of stability
Teto85 Premium Member about 4 years ago
All the remaining Democrats running for the nomination beat tiny by 3 to 6 points in polls. We’ll see what happens after the convention when President Obama throws in his support. Tiny will be so distracted that he won’t notice that he is being whupped.
Treedodger about 4 years ago
If he gets screwed again voters will run from the poles. DNC elects trump once again.
rossevrymn about 4 years ago
Goin’ to be 9 months of idealism vs pragmatism