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I think it hurts Harris too. Whitmer, Duckworth and Abrams seem to be the beneficiaries.
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05-30-2020, 06:48 AM | #3352 |
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I think Harris threads the needle on this.
Clearly skin color plays a part as unfortunate as that is but it'll help capture enough of the minority vote and buttress Biden's criminal justice concerns. Then the fact that she was a prosecutor saves the middle American white women's vote. I think this is a marketable advantage for Harris in the race.
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Fair point. I guess it wouldn't be shocking if she doesn't survive the vetting.
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05-30-2020, 01:25 PM | #3357 |
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Also Bottoms is on her third year as Mayor and before that a City Council member. Not exactly a ton of experience, and I think Biden wants to contrast experience. Not to mention, Kasim Reed was a part of her camp and he was a crook (now KLB has been much better, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were skeletons somewhere).
Harris may be the best choice. Threads the needle well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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05-30-2020, 01:31 PM | #3358 |
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Biden has a difficult task because whoever is chosen may be the Presidential favorite as early as 2024. A lot of people want that, and he'll have to be careful so that he doesn't piss off too many others. That's a big advantage with Warren, who may also not want to run in 2024, but I think it's risky not to have a person of color on the ticket.
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05-30-2020, 01:45 PM | #3359 |
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He so needs Warren really. But she's kind of all over the place lately. Granted so are many others
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05-30-2020, 01:53 PM | #3360 |
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You can't do Warren because the Dems can't lose a Senate seat
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05-30-2020, 03:02 PM | #3361 |
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I don't think that's a big issue. The Dem legislature has changed the law before and can do it again.
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05-30-2020, 08:07 PM | #3363 |
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I think a Warren selection loses the white suburban vote who is afraid of extreme taxation.
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05-30-2020, 08:11 PM | #3364 |
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Although not as important as the white suburban vote, it would also kill any chance of pulling in the Sanders supporters.
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05-30-2020, 08:20 PM | #3365 | |
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I read that the governor (currently Charlie Baker, a Centrist Rupublican) would get to appoint the replacement, with a special election to follow within 120 days (not positive about time, but not too long if she were to resign immediately after the presidential election in early November and inauguration in Jan). The Democratic legislature would also likely pass a law, like other states have, where they give Baker three nominees to choose from. It currently looks like Massachusetts’ other senator, Ed Markey is going to lose his primary to Rep Joe Kennedy III (grandson of Bobby Kennedy), despite having pretty good approval numbers. It would make sense for the loser of the primary to get the nod. Markey, in particular, would retain seniority and committee assignments. |
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05-30-2020, 08:39 PM | #3366 |
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I bought PredictIt shares of Val Demings weeks ago, just on spec...sold most of them this morning at 17 cents. Nice win. I still think she is an interesting play, but it sounds like they don't plan to announce for another 8-9 weeks, and it seems like a ton could happen through that time. I'm still invested enough to watch it, but not enough to pace over it.
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05-30-2020, 10:02 PM | #3367 | |
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Absolutely the opposite. Sure, Sanders voters were pissed at Warren for a lot of reasons, but she still represents the most progressive voice of the options, and it if anything, it would be an olive branch to Sanders' wing of the party. Most rationale Sanders voters will see that. Source: Me. Sanders supporter. Did not love her campaign and some of her antics, but would love Warren as VP. Last edited by BillyMadison : 05-30-2020 at 10:02 PM. |
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05-30-2020, 10:11 PM | #3368 | |
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That may very well be the case, I just see a ton of Sanders supporters that still blame her for Biden getting the nomination. There seems to be a lot of bad blood there. As I said, she'd be my number 1 choice. However, my goal is to get Trump out of office and I'm not sure she's the right VP to help make that happen. |
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05-31-2020, 09:18 AM | #3369 |
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Name the candidate that gets the most Sanders supporters into the fold?
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05-31-2020, 09:49 AM | #3371 | |
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I don't think it's that simple. I think you need to look at who motivates the most voters. Sanders' voters are one block, but driving up African-American turnout and Hispanic turnout are also important goals.
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I really don't see any other way for it NOT to be Harris. I mean, I'm being a bit myopic with it, but she's had the favorite status imo, ever since she dropped out of the pres race. If the summer proceeds down the path it's heading right now, she is absolutely the right person. Hell, if she were still in the race right now, I'd have preferred her above Biden.
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05-31-2020, 09:54 AM | #3373 |
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I'm going to go ahead and guess that he isn't getting the nomination. SI
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05-31-2020, 10:08 AM | #3374 | |
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I could see Biden not wanting to nominate someone who was a prosecutor, especially with her record.
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05-31-2020, 10:15 AM | #3375 |
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Is the plan to try to dribble out the clock and hold onto an apparent "lead" here?
Is the plan to actively woo and contest suburban white women in the midwest? Is the plan to supercharge voter enthusiasm and gather greater turnout from pockets of potential voters who should be predisposed to support the D? ...the answer to these, including some mismash of all of the above, has a lot to do with who is the "best" running mate for purposes of winning. (FWIW, I deliberately omitted the "best at governing" because I simply don't see how that translates here... competence isn't sexy, and anyone who cares enough about competence to let ti drive their vote is already fully locked in for the most viable anti-Trump candidate, I think) |
05-31-2020, 10:18 AM | #3376 |
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And, by the way, we already know the playbook...
Right now the Biden running mate is "Generic Dem Woman." Tough to beat her. Once she has a name, we will see it fire up. Oh, she one time made this decision on a thing, isn't that awful fifteen years later? Oh, she has an "associate" who said something that seems naughty out of context, for shame! Oh, she might have gone on a date before being formally betrothed, we family values types will surely reject her and vote for...checks notes...Trump. Whatever... sprinkle in liberal amounts of sexism and/or racism as need be to get the seasoning just right. The base will eat it up, count on it. |
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05-31-2020, 12:12 PM | #3378 |
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But we shouldn't overestimate how much any particular candidate might help. The VP choice doesn't make a big difference.
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And I could see Evangelicals not wanting to nominate...well..you know how that ended.
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05-31-2020, 01:13 PM | #3382 | |
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I think they, with the rest of the right, just wanted someone who could "own" libs.
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They found Clinton even more unacceptable than Trump and weren't willing to consider anyone else. The polling data from '16 is pretty clear on that being the reason for the late switch from undecided to Trump. Which is why all Biden has to do is not be absolutely horrible. He'd can be bad, bordering on terrible and that'll still be enough.
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05-31-2020, 01:37 PM | #3384 | |
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So you're willing to discount the convictions of a highly 'ethically' bound voting bloc as a group that despised the 'libs' even more in order to vote someone in that they should, by all rights, have abhorred. Yet, you think that it doesn't go the other way too? I mean sure Harris has some baggage she brings, but if she brings the goods to the ticket, you don't think that the other side can't set it aside so they can 'own' the Con-Don crew?
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I think what a lot of people are still missing is that they did abhor Trump ... and voted for him anyway. Those aren't mutually exclusive things.
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To me at least, that means that the opposition can find support from those who hate trump more (among independents, former trump voters and other kingmaker groups) than Biden/whomever and still find votes cast their way with minimal regard for the skeletons of their own.
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You're right on at least some voters. My mom is a single issue Pro-Life person that held her nose to vote for Trump but did so because he was Pro-Life and the Democrats are Pro-Choice
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Really I think this is a softball.
Harris - Black Woman gets minority vote Harris - Law enforcement/prosecutorial background gets middle Amer. white woman vote Done and done and Biden runs away with it at the box although it'll tighten up according to the news.
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I think that the way they're handling the Federal response to the looting and riots etc, escalation, is losing the middle white suburban women's vote in spades. The other base votes just hardened but the middle is a lost cause as of now and I'm not sure how they get it back.
The church photo op and the immediate slap down of the Arch-Dioceses of DC (a women) about it. Is devastating. The only hope is that this is so far away from Nov that people have moved on by the time they vote.
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Presumably they are deeply vetting Vel Demings with this same triangulation in mind, and possibly a way to avoid the higher profile issues with Harris. I have no clue what comes up in Demings's background as a police chief, but if they're content that she's at least okay there, I think she makes a stronger play, actually. |
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06-02-2020, 06:58 AM | #3391 | |
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And those voters, who definitely do exist, should just be written off as lost causes by the Dems for the next generation. Tactically, that is just ceded ground, like it or not. If you campaign so well that you dig into that cache of solid R votes, then you're well past what you need to win anyway. It's either boost blue-leaning turnout by inspiration, persuade the persuadable likely voters to vote blue, or microtarget specific swing states...and most likely an actual combination of the above. |
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So overall, the GOP line on policy is more status quo + tax breaks. And the Dems are more progressive. Is that fair?
If so, then why don't the Dems come up with a cohesive plan showing their desired goals in terms of tax policy, health care, criminal reform, student loans / college costs, infrastructure, etc. It would make it easier for people to understand the entire scope of what they want to change and how it would impact each individual and perhaps give them the chance to sweep into office with a plan to hit the ground on day 1. |
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In theory they will when Joe becomes the official nominee and the official party platform gets written.
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I know, but those never seem to be very details (possible I'm just not seeing the detailed version). Most of the blurbs that candidates have put out just state that they will raise taxes on the rich. |
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She was better than most for sure but still nothing that told me what tax rates would need to be in order to pay for all this, etc. "Make the rich pay their fair share" is a pretty open ended statement. |
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She put out her tax plan. One of the main aspects was taxing assets over $50 million. Was not popular among Dem leadership and their rich donors. |
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Fair enough - I guess I missed that.
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It would be nice if this all upheaval served to make justice & police reform a/the primary issue for Biden and his campaign. They're practically begging for a popular platform (or any platform), and it's personally a primary issue for me, so it would actually give me a substantive reason to get behind Biden, rather than feeling like I'm holding my nose.
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