dagblog - Comments for "Sanders leads Clinton by 9 points in NH, gains ground in IA"

I agree with PP that Biden is

trkingmomoe — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:44:04 +0000

In reply to Oh my, Warren's 15 minutes

I agree with PP that Biden is not a good at running on a national level. He has tried before and each time he never got out of the single digits in the poles.

The bump he has in the poles right now is from just the media making a big deal out of it. If he gets in, the poles will settle back down Yes his mouth will get him in trouble. It always does.

Would put his mother to sleep

ocean-kat — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:35:23 +0000

In reply to Oh my, Warren's 15 minutes

Would put his mother to sleep.

That's very unfair to Biden. I'm sure he would make some buffoonish comment on the campaign trail and we would all wake up and laugh or cringe.

All this speculation about

ocean-kat — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:17:50 +0000

In reply to I don't know what to make of

All this speculation about Warren seems crazy to me. If Warren would not endorse Hillary or Sanders why would she endorse Biden by agreeing to be his vp before the primary vote? Biden is as much a centrist as Hillary, imo slightly to the right of Hillary. Sanders is by far the closest to Warren politically. The liberals that support Sanders are mostly the same liberals that support Warren. Her endorsement of Biden over Sanders would be seen as a betrayal of her principles by Sanders supporters. Would Sanders supporters leave him for a Warren vp? For that reason I'm not at all sure it would help Biden that much and I think it would hurt her.

Oh my, Warren's 15 minutes

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:05:53 +0000

In reply to I don't know what to make of

Oh my, Warren's 15 minutes are over. All this is a game. Murdoch & kin are making a ton of money off this faux contest. Biden? Worst candidate ever. Would put his mother to sleep.

I don't know what to make of

Peter — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:20:47 +0000

In reply to First off DNC would be fools

I don't know what to make of this but Biden is beating Sanders in the latest national poll and he isn't yet a candidate. HRC still leads by a strong margin but if Warren joins Biden as VP all bets are off.

It's convenient that the Sandernistas have already printed hit pieces aimed at Radical Leftist Purists, for not feeling the Bern, so they already have convenient scapegoats to project their failure onto.

Thanks! ~arc

arc — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:15:13 +0000

In reply to First off DNC would be fools

Thanks!

~arc

First off DNC would be fools

trkingmomoe — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 07:40:58 +0000

In reply to Re this link

First off DNC would be fools to go against the winner of the primaries and caucuses. That would anger voters and many would sit out the election. The last time we had a brokered convention was in the 1950's. JFK's successes in entering in state primaries even as a write in vote ended the practice of party bosses picking the top of the ticket. People wanted more say because of modern media and could watch the candidates on Television. Many states that had caucuses then moved away from caucuses and into state run primaries. We only have a few states that still let the parties run and finance their own caucuses to chose who to give their convention votes to. The parties still have rules for brokered conventions but there has to be a serious reason for them to do that. They will nominate the primary winner.

These very early endorsements came because they didn't see how strong Sanders would be. Super delegates have been known to change their minds so it is not set in stone. Most of what you are reading is horse race stuff that the media likes to play around with.

Re this link

arc — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 23:00:38 +0000

In reply to 2 more, one old one new,from

Re this link

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/

can someone explain to me, because I really don't know, what happens if Hillary gets all the endorsements and Bernie wins the electoral vote? Does the DNC have the final say?

Thanks -

Parry sounds like an

Aaron Carine — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 19:49:44 +0000

In reply to Sanders leads Clinton by 9 points in NH, gains ground in IA

Parry sounds like an apologist for Assad and Putin. He refers to the "pretense" that Assad engaged in "unjustified repression". Yes, the massacre of those protestors was perfectly justified. Referring to the popular uprising against Yan-however-you-spell-it as a "coup" is tendentious, as is putting "Russian aggression" in scare quotes. We should sometimes object to demonizing the other, but we don't always have to endorse the other's point of view.

This is a clip from This Week

trkingmomoe — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 23:56:18 +0000

In reply to Sanders leads Clinton by 9 points in NH, gains ground in IA

This is a clip from This Week on ABC this morning. I think this ties into this thread.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/bill-kristol-biden-warren-ticket-pretty-powerful-33571718