Posted on 09/19/2019 7:00:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Okay, so Joe Biden is proving such an embarrassment that he can’t be trusted to remain plausibly coherent for the 14 long moths until the election. And Kamala Harris, the Great Intersectional Hope, is so transparently phony that voters are abandoning her. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is no longer the anti-Hillary alternative that he was in 2016, and his cranky persona is wearing thin.
So, what’s a member of the Democrats’ gentry – the educated professional classes – to do? Steven Hayward of Powerline, a very astute observer, thinks that Elizabeth Warren is the next candidate who will take the lead.
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Pollster Mark Murray points out that only 9 percent of Democrats say their mind is made up; Warren has emerged as the leading second-choice candidate if Biden stumbles, and Warren’s supporters show the highest intensity/enthusiasm level, which is always something successful campaigns build on. You can almost sense the media starting to get behind her. Biden has the look of Bob Dole in 1996: an old party warhorse that Democrats might accept, but without great enthusiasm, as this chart shows:
She’s lefty like Bernie, but with an intellectual veneer that comes with having been a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. That she snagged that prestigious job by faking Native American heritage is her first fatal flaw. Blacks, who comprise a quarter of the Democrats’ vote in presidential elections, are simply not going to turn out for someone who appropriated victim status and the preferences that accompany it today. It’s not just an “uphill” struggle, as The Hill delicately puts it, it’s a futile struggle.
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I disagree. Back then, they were more UNIFORMLY informed. They had one source for the information and while it was part lie/part truth, they were united behind it. The media was free to use the news as a way to control the public and were rarely ever questioned about such use.
We have the ability to be much more CORRECTLY informed today due to the internet, but many don't use it. I have people who have a cellphone in their pocket ask me what time it is. The internet is a valuable resource, but it all depends on how or if you use it.
Dont you just love that? When somebody LOOKING at a cell phone asks you what time it is?
An astute observation and relevant to ALL political aspirants. Sit down, shut up and convincingly try to express the material the handlers and shapers have put before you.
Nah, Michelle. Hillary is a three time loser. And with the Epstein crap, the Steele Dossier, DOJ investigation, etc. to much potential baggage and questions to answer. But Michelle is available. She is still touted as the most popular woman in America, is doing a book tour, TV spots and magazine covers. I’m putting my money on Michelle at the convention. The candidate best suited “To bring the party together and heal the soul of a nation ripped asunder by the divisive policy of Donald Trump”. The media would run with that as the second coming of the Lord Jesus himself.
People like Hillary LESS now than they did when she ran - she wouldn’t even get the popular vote this time around.
Hillary has Warrens bad points - the black community isn’t thrilled with shrill old white women and few white people trust either woman. Then Hillary lacks Warren’s drive. Warren’s attempting to win - Hillary’s wants to be crowned... Hillary won’t be stepping in...
Since the Norse got to North America before Columbus, and because the native populations did not have a common name for themselves, maybe we need to junk "Indians" in favor of the Norse term for them. I think it meant something like "screamers." (The Norse and the natives of Newfoundland did not get along.)
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
Of course he did turn Newark into a garden spot. I don't know why Newark wasn't rated #1 in Money magazine's list of the best places to live in the United States.
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