Tuesday, March 03, 2020

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In my little town...

52 comments:

  1. listener said on 3/02/2020 at 10:11:00 PM

    If they really want to change their vote, in most states they are allowed to show up at the polls, say they want their absentee ballot to not be counted, signing a form to that effect. Then they will be allowed to vote afresh. But that's a bit of work for people who chose to vote in advance. Hmmmm.

    No can do in California.

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  2. Two mild cases of novel coronavirus in Georgia, brought in from Milan, subjects quarantined at home.

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  3. Fresno Bernie election day activities [Click] Driving teams, phone banking, canvassing and watch party. I really think this is unprecedented hereabouts.

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    1. I looked for Bernie activities in my home town, but it seems there is nothing organized. Well, it is a small city and moderately remote.

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    2. Count your blessings that it’s remote. Remember Fletcher VT!

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  4. I got a voting reminder today from Bernie's people. 😂

    So I took the opportunity to ask what time Bernie will be speaking at the rally.

    Response:
    “I'm not sure what time Bernie will speak, but you should try to arrive early as we expect the event to be filled to capacity. Rallies usually last around 90 minutes, though sometimes can last a little longer.”

    Hmmm, filled to capacity, blaring music and we don't know when he'll speak.
    Having second thoughts about going.
    It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, though. Of course, with COVID-19 in the air, "lifetime" is a relative term! Ha!

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  5. Dean was interviewed locally about the election. (He has a really bad cold.)

    https://www.wcax.com/video?vid=568414502

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    1. ^ Topic is:
      Where the Dems go from here.

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    2. Hope Howard feels better soon. Still,he's not quite the hero to me he once was. Not altogether sure I would trust his analysis.

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    3. No, Howard is no hero. I still am disgusted with is use of his vote as a superdelegate to wipe out Vermont's votes for Bernie in 2016. Like so many in the Democratic Establishment, he seems to think he knows better than the rabble.

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  6. A few minutes ago, we got a canvasser for Bloomberg. Dad said politely but firmly that no one in the house was interested.

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    1. I have a doormat that says "Go Away" and a little ceramic dog sitting next to it holding a sign in its mouth also saying "Go Away". Hoping that gets the message across. Or I could suspend a bucket of water over the door?

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    2. LMAO Susan. No, really, a bucket of water has to be constantly monitored and refilled. Much too much trouble, unfortunately. You might just as well open the door and yell at the canvassers, and that wouldn't do your blood pressure any good.

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    3. Demetrius made a "Whatever it is, we're not interested" sign. Maybe it makes people think twice before knocking, but we still occasionally get people who try. Maybe the "go away" would give folks more pause.

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  7. Warren Takes Aim After Biden Gets Big Endorsements - Click

    According to these blog posts I'm reading at NPR, both Warren and Bloomberg are counting on a brokered (contested) convention.

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  8. Rather than linking, which seems iffy with regard to this particular blog, I'm re-posting the whole thing here over a main comment and several replies.

    9:42 p.m. ET
    Mar. 2, 2020

    Sanders: ‘I Want To Open The Door’

    The flood of Joe Biden endorsements from all the vanquished primary opponents hadn’t yet begun when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders held a press conference Monday morning.

    But Sanders’ answers — and his tone — would hold fresh throughout the day as fallen candidate after fallen candidate backed the former vice president, and the long-awaited Stop Sanders movement came together in public on the eve of the most important day on the primary calendar.

    “I am shocked by that,” Sanders said, in response to a question about former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s withdrawal from the race, and the fact it seemed to have a whole lot to do with blocking Sanders from building an unstoppable delegate lead.

    “It is no secret — the Washington Post has 16 articles a day on this — that there is a massive effort trying to stop Bernie Sanders,” Sanders said. “That is not a secret to anyone in this room. The corporate establishment is coming together. The political establishment is coming together. And they will do anything — they’re really getting nervous that working people are standing up.”

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    1. “We’re not going to win the endorsement fight. The establishment will rally around the establishment candidates. That’s the simple reality,” he said.

      As Sanders made his way from the Salt Lake City hotel where he met with reporters to the site of an outdoor rally in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains, word came that Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar had dropped out, and would endorse Biden.

      Sanders made no mention of Buttigieg’s exit or Klobuchar’s endorsement during the speech.

      He then boarded a plane to fly to Klobuchar’s home state, where, upon landing, Buttigieg had formalized his endorsement of Biden.

      A little bit after that, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, out of the race for months, had joined the Biden bandwagon, too.

      What did Sanders think? “It is no surprise they do not want me to become president,” Sanders told CNN in an interview from St. Paul.

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    2. As rumors shot around online that more Biden endorsements might come — maybe California Sen. Kamala Harris? — Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar took the stage.

      “I am a little tired of the political establishment and the political pundits constantly dismissing what people here in the heartland are fighting for. And I am sick and tired of them calling our progressive bold ideas radical,” said Omar, who over the weekend had called out the media for its “lies” and “disinformation.”

      Even as the Biden endorsement onslaught provided a sharp illustration of the shadowy “establishment” opposition Sanders and his allies constantly warn against, many of those very “pundits” Omar cited have theorized the rhetoric coming out of Sanders’ camp could alienate voters he needs to win, if not the nomination then certainly in November.

      In an interview with NPR Sunday — like the Sanders press conference, coming after the Buttigieg withdrawal but before the onslaught of Biden endorsements — campaign manager Faiz Shakir sought to define the “establishment” Sanders is blasting.

      “It’s not the individual people,” he explained. “It’s the collective influence of money that plays a large role in the structure of things and politics.”

      “Voters out in the world don’t see themselves as quote unquote establishment voters,” Shakir said. “They know the establishment means the power of money over the political process.”

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    3. Taking the stage before thousands of screaming supporters in St. Paul Monday night, Sanders abruptly shifted the tone he had stuck to all day, and made that exact distinction Shakir had tried to clarify.

      “I want to open the door to Amy’s supporters, to Pete’s supporters,” Sanders said at the beginning of his speech. “I know there are political differences. But I also know that virtually all of Amy’s supporters and Pete’s supporters understand that we’ve got to move toward a government that believes in justice, not greed,” Sanders said.

      “So to all of Amy and Pete’s political supporters, the door is open. Come on in!”

      Tuesday’s results will tell us whether they took Sanders up on his offer, or instead followed their candidates’ leads to Biden’s camp.

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  9. Bernie Sanders Drops By His Own Polling Place On Super Tuesday - Click
    Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders drove himself and his wife Jane to their own polling place in Burlington on Super Tuesday, parking his Subaru and joking to the gathered crowd that he wanted to make sure at least two people voted for him in his home state.

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    1. I'm pretty sure that's also Youngest's polling place.

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  10. Just saw a headline on Real Clear Politics that The Nation has endorsed Bernie. Took them long enough. :P Still, every endorsement counts.

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    1. I think that they don't have a say at one place or another in the process because they are a US territory.

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    2. I'm not sure what you're saying. American Samoa -- indeed, all US territories -- vote in the presidential primaries. American Samoa votes on Super Tuesday.

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    3. Clicking the link to Real Clear Politics given above brings up a page that shows the primary results for the fourteen states voting today. That page does not list American Samoa. American Samoa is part of the United States. It holds a caucus and sends delegates to the national convention. Those results should be listed along with the results from the states that vote today.

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  12. I get so mad at comments on Facebook raving about Biden's "experience". What the hell do they think Bernie's been doing?

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    1. I know, Susan, I know. It's maddening. They're just repeating what MSNBC and Fox News tell them without investigating or even thinking for themselves. Sometimes I wonder if sheep like that should be allowed to vote.

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  13. Joe Biden Just Killed the Momentum Theory of Politics [Click] “An eight-word summary of the Democratic primary: Momentum is a myth, and demographics are destiny.”

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  14. I am naturally anxious about the California results, but expect we won't know how it turned out for some time. Exit polls will be useless because so many people voted by mail. Mail ballots that have been counted are evidently outnumbered by those mailed or delivered today, and there is substantial in-person voting today.

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  15. The newspapers are saying that Biden won Virginia and Bernie won Vermont, but give no information about percentages or delegates. Votes are surely still being tabulated. Polls showed Biden ahead in Virginia, Sanders in second place with more votes than numbers 3 and 4 combined. Realclearpolitics shows almost no votes counted (but claims Biden won VA and Sanders won VT). No need to get the vapors.

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  16. I'm home. I stayed past 8pm to help count the vote, and I've posted my town's results out front. They were only letting 3,600 into Bernie's rally, so there's no way we'd have gotten in, since they opened the doors at 5:30 and I worked past 8pm. It's okay. I had fun at the polls. And Bernie, of course, is doing great here! I'm always in a happy Vermont bubble until I get home.

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    1. Good work, Listener. Thanks for your work at the polls.

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  17. Currently from Real Clear Politics:

    Massachusetts Democratic Presidential Primary Data for Progress (D)
    Warren 28, Sanders 26, Biden 26, Bloomberg 15, Buttigieg 2, Klobuchar 1, Gabbard 1, Steyer 0 Warren +2

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  18. Thanks to live streaming, which is a marvelous thing, I caught the end of Bernie's remarks at the Burlington rally just now. He expressed himself as cautiously optimistic that he will win California.

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  19. Great Bernie speech.

    Biden starts out by introducing his wife and his sister ... and got them mixed up. :-o

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    1. Is it just me, or is the sound really bad from Biden's mic? It sounds tinny to me.

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    2. Ohhh myyy, there were two protesters who came up on the platform right behind Biden. Where was his Security!?

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  20. Two tornadoes hit Nashville early in the morning, while most people were asleep. At least 25 people dead, and 40 buildings collapsed. "Among them was a popular music venue that had just held an election rally for Bernie Sanders. The crowd had left shortly before the twister struck the Basement East Nashville, the Tennessean reported."

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  21. Massachusetts (91 delegates), 78% of precincts reporting:
    Biden 33.6%, Sanders 27.2%, Warren 20.7%, Bloomberg 11.7%

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  22. Live results at Huffpost.com. Yes, Biden won Virginia: an actual majority with 100% of the votes counted. Bernie looks like he may get an actual majority in Vermont. Otherwise results are mixed. There are several states where Biden has the most votes but Sanders + Warren > Biden + Bloomberg. Bloomberg is picking up delegates in some states but not other and is leading nowhere. No results yet for Texas and too few for California to draw any real conclusion.

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  23. Email from Bernie says California was called for him shortly after the polls closed. But no indication how many delegates that means.

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    1. At this time the report is that 32% of CA precincts are reporting, Sanders has 33 delegates, Biden has one, Bloomberg has two, and Warren has none. There are lots of mail ballots not yet counted.

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  24. Alan, which county is yours?

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  25. I'd sure like to know what happened in American tonight. All the polls on Monday had Bernie ahead. Suddenly we have this big shift that I can't quite believe is authentic. If feels like another stolen election is on the horizon. I really really hate politics with every fiber of my being. Many thanks to California for being wise like Vermont and Colorado.

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  26. Bernie isn't altering his rhetoric to foster party unity, and good for him. If he does he'll be assimilated. If he doesn't, and he has a boatload of delegates, he can again affect the platform of the inevitable Democratic nominee. I say inevitable because it feels to me like something really underhanded or at least profoundly stupid is going on. Either there's something shifty going on behind the scenes or the populace that waited until Super Tuesday to make up their minds had a feeling that Biden is the safer choice. That's ridiculous when you consider how much DT has been after Biden and for how long, as well as that Bernie has an excellent ground operation in every state and Biden does not.

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