Bernie needed Amy/Pete to stay in to fracture the moderate vote. Warren staying in even though her campaign is dead is quite telling.
Klobuchar is out.
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If Bernie can end internet trolling he should be elected president of the world. Also, he has condemned "Bernie Bros." As far as condemnation goes how much is required by Sanders to please the people that keep bringing it up? Until he brings mass civility to the internet for the first time ever? Should he abandon his campaign ideas to just crusade against online trolls that may or may not support him.
Where are the terrible Bernie Bros of HROT? I haven't met one in real life. I hear they are pretty thick in twitter which is just trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls. Guaranteed not all Bernie Bro trolls online are Sanders supporters. I spent enough time on 4chan to know how much some people like getting a rise out of people online.
Judge us not by our twitter trolls and our youtube comment sections.
Pretty sure Illinois is already in the bag there Boss. And Missouri is not even close to being in play.
Every base has trolls. Bernie just has more people online. Bernie's reddit sub has 485k and Pete comes in at 30k. Those numbers are miniscule when you compare them to Twitter. Because math Bernie naturally has more of the obnoxious vocal minority online in all of their hiveminded glory.
Yes, Illinois should be OK, but some polls in Missouri show Biden within the margin of error...an all out effort in the Show Me state might flip it back to blue.
More likely getting single digit percentage of votes with POC and having no money had more to do with it.
If Missouri went blue in November (and I very much doubt that it will), then the general election wouldn’t even be close; huge dem landslide victory. But again, not gonna happen.
Not to be (too) argumentative, but what happened last night suggest there's a 50/50 chance of Missouri going blue in the November election? Texas results, maybe, in terms of enthusiasm and turnout? I guess I'm just not seeing it yet. Probably know more after Mo's primary next week. I would suspect a huge win for Biden, and if so, think your theory could hold water. If Bernie is competitive here, then I think Mo stays red in November.
I think the good ol' boy, redneck and racist/bigot contingencies are just too strong down here for a dem president to win but who knows. I would admit that only Biden (of all the dem candidates) could pull it off if it were to happen.
I still think it'll be close no matter who the Dems put up. Hillary vs. Donald was 48% to 46% and I don't see Trump dropping much from that benchmark.
Don't forget that the eventual Dem nominee has a powerful weapon waiting on the sidelines. The Obamas have yet to make their presence felt and they will be very influential. I doubt Biden would make the Gore mistake of distancing himself from a very popular predecessor with whom he served.
His total margin of victory from the deciding EC states that went Trump was less than 80,000 votes. He doesn't need to drop much at all. 48.5% to 45.5% would be more than enough.
I wouldn't blame Joe if he told Barack to take his endorsement and put it where the sun don't shine....
I'll assume he thinks Biden is pissed that Obama hasn't already been out stumping for him.
My comments were strictly related to election prospects in Missouri, where Trump beat Clinton 56.4% to 37.9%. I think it's going to be really hard for dems to reverse that trend in 2020. Hope I'm wrong.
On that account, I'm certain you're correct. Biden could do fantastic in Missouri and still lose by 10+ points.
