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Biden won South Carolina by

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 04:22:18 +0000

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Biden won South Carolina by 24 delegates and a couple hundred thousand votes, Super Tuesday by 100 (1million more votes), Super Tuesday 2.0 incl Michigan and Washington by 76 (640k)

Sure, Iowa was a repudiation of sorts, as was Nevada. New Hampshire was a given. But these were tiny states. South Carolina was the first serious state, but in general Sanders' play was "without Hillary we'd see Bernie prove decisive", but he didn't, not even in half the states he should excel in. His Revolution didn't quite revolute. Nor did Bloomberg save the day.

Was it weird having all Biden's opponents drop out? Sure. Like with the pandemic. But it's also weird for me having 0 candidates I actually like and feel presidential. So it goes. I'll take my lukewarm gruel and like it over the much worse alternative of eating nails and tarballs.

Democrats seek balance in

artappraiser — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 02:45:51 +0000

In reply to Black Lives Matter goes big on policy agenda

Democrats seek balance in backing protests, condemning violence

is current headline story @ TheHill.com, with video, by Jonathan Easley and Amie Parnes- 08/29/20 05:10 PM EDT

I vote when or how I please.

ocean-kat — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:15:31 +0000

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I vote when or how I please. That's not the point. The point is you're using it and every other thing you can think of to avoid discussion or debate. Don't reply if you don't want to discuss issues with someone who isn't going to vote. I really don't give a fuck if I never read another ~~lie~~ line you write.

ocean-kat — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:12:27 +0000

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You claim, "After South Carolina, whites voted for Biden." I pointed out that was clearly and easily verifiably wrong. You claim "After South Carolina, Sanders was toast." I gave you numbers that show he was winning after South Carolina. You might have a case to make how ever weak if you said after Super Tuesday but you're clearly wrong when you say after South Carolina. Most of your posts are designed to avoid admitting you were wrong with everything you claim happened after SC.

When he dropped out he was doing as well against Biden as he did against Hillary, when he didn't drop out. Even with every candidate dropping out before half the states voted Biden was still unable to get a majority of the votes. People like you always want the competition to drop out before the people get a chance to vote. You wanted Sanders to drop out 4 years ago and Hillary to drop out in 08. Even though she only lost by 40 thousand votes out of 25 million cast. And that doesn't include the votes from the Michigan primary and the Florida primary, both that she won.

You want acclamation not democracy so long as the candidate you support is acclaimed. That's where we differ.

Here is Bernie friggin

rmrd0000 — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 23:41:50 +0000

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Here is Bernie friggin Sanders

"I wish I could give you better news, but I think you know the truth, and that is that we are now some 300 delegates behind Vice President Biden, and the path toward victory is virtually impossible," Sanders said in a livestream after the call. "So while we are winning the ideological battle and while we are winning the support of so many young people and working people throughout the country, I have concluded that this battle for the Democratic nomination will not be successful. And so today I am announcing the suspension of my campaign."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out/index.html

If Biden/Harris is not to

rmrd0000 — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 23:32:17 +0000

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If Biden/Harris is not to your liking, don't vote for them. I'm not begging for you to vote for them. I think that I have made it very clear. There is nothing to debate.

I didn't think that it was a

ocean-kat — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 22:52:14 +0000

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I didn't think that it was a real question.

Of course they are obviously real questions and they are good questions that challenge your thinking. You can't come up with a good answer or even good spin, that's why you're looking for ways to avoid answering them. Your new avoidance technique is to claim they aren't real questions and that you don't have to answer since I'm not going to vote. If you're unwilling to dialog, discuss, or debate because I'm not voting stop replying to my posts. I won't miss you at all.

You can quote establishment

ocean-kat — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 22:27:40 +0000

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You can quote establishment democrats and pundits as much as you want but it's all speculation and guesses about what will happen before the people even vote. And that guess was influenced by a strong bias against Sanders. After South Carolina and the other states that voted on that date Biden had 2.6 million votes and Sanders had 2.8 million votes and Warren had 1.2 million votes.

I didn't think that it was a

rmrd0000 — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 22:08:05 +0000

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I didn't think that it was a real question. You have said for months that you are not voting. I took it is a given that you were not going to vote. I'm sure that I have said before that if you are not going to vote, that is your choice. I have a feeling that most Liberals will vote Biden/Harris.

I asked the question about your prefers candidate because I was curious. My understanding is that it is not Biden or Sanders.

I have no idea WTF you are

rmrd0000 — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:57:59 +0000

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I have no idea WTF you are talking about. After South Carolina, Sanders was toast.

From Politico

Bernie Sanders insists he has a “narrow path” to the nomination. But he and his aides refuse to say what it is.

A majority of the states and territories yet to vote rejected him in 2016. The national polls don’t offer much hope either — since Joe Biden defeated him in Arizona, Florida and Illinois on March 17, Sanders has trailed him by double-digits in every single national survey.

Days before the Wisconsin primary — the last major race on the presidential calendar for weeks — Whoopi Goldberg grilled Sanders on “The View,” pushing him to explain how he could still capture the nomination. He never spelled it out, instead arguing that “people in a democracy have a right to vote and have a right to vote for the agenda that they think can work for America, especially in this very, very difficult moment.”

Sanders' campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, and senior adviser, Jeff Weaver, have likewise declined to answer questions from POLITICO about what his path looks like. While it’s not yet mathematically impossible for him to win, Sanders would need to amass more than 60 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination — a mark he’s only hit in two states this year, Nevada and his home state of Vermont.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/05/bernie-sanders-path-to-victory-165161