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Matthew Yglesisas: The Democratic establishment is doing a really bad job of stopping Bernie Sanders [Click] Makes some quite possibly valid points, but Mr. Yglesias makes it clear he does not favor Bernie. One particularly choice statement: ”If Biden’s not up for it, someone should have said so.” Yoo-hoo, Mr. Yglesias! People have been saying that for quite some time—you just haven’t been listening.
ReplyDeleteNew New Hampster polls via politicalwire.com:
ReplyDeleteA new Boston Globe/WBZ-TV/Suffolk University poll in New Hampshire finds Bernie Sanders leading the Democratic primary race with 24%, followed by Pete Buttitieg at 22%, Elizabeth Warren at 13%, Joe Biden at 10% and Amy Klobuchar at 9%.
A new CNN poll finds Sanders ahead with 28%, followed by Buttigieg at 21%, Biden at 12%, Warren at 9% and Klobuchar at 6%.
A new 7NEWS/Emerson College poll finds Sanders leading with 30%, followed by Buttigieg at 20%, Klobuchar at 13%, Warren at 12% and Biden at 11%.
A new CBS News poll finds Sanders leading with 29%, followed by Buttigieg at 25%, Warren at 17%, Biden at 12% and Klobuchar at 10%.
Brief synopsis from politicalwire.com: [Click]
ReplyDeleteBiden opines that neither Sanders nor Buttigieg is electable.
Steyer has been pouring money into South Carolina—advertisements and ground operation.
Buttigieg spends big on digital advertising in seven (mostly white) Super Tuesday states but doesn’t have much of a ground operation.
Nice try, Biden. 😂
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The secret behind the Sanders campaign: people before tech [Click]
ReplyDelete'Hijabi clout': the women of color unknowingly used by 2020 campaigns. [Click] “Sabirah Mahmud was in a Biden video. Ayanna Lee was in an ad for Warren. Neither of them consented, nor do they support those candidates.”
LA Times: For 20 minutes it was Joe Biden, live and unplugged. [Click] “Finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses will do that to a candidate whose White House bid is heavily premised on supposed electability.” Twenty minutes? Oh, be still, my heart!
ReplyDeleteDemocratic debate: Front-runners Buttigieg and Sanders beat back attacks in New Hampshire. This strikes me as a very good, balanced summary of the debate.
ReplyDeleteSounds good to me, too, Bill. Thanks for the link.
DeleteRobert Reich: Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency [Click] If the choice comes down to tyrant or oligarch, we must choose the latter. But our democracy would still be in peril.
ReplyDeleteTerrible storm hitting British Isles [Click]
ReplyDeleteIn Iowa’s Obama-Trump counties, Democrats didn’t turn out [Click] “The best argument I’ve heard that squares with talking to voters is that Democrats are more invested in defeating the president than in choosing a nominee.”
ReplyDeleteBTW--I probably won't be here tomoorow; off to San Francisco in the AM.
ReplyDeletehttps://disrn.com/news/biden-calls-woman-lying-dog-faced-pony-soldier?fbclid=IwAR2BTAZhpBE07Dum9oEhS9g2V4Q1AWdxxrzHcKac29DbeCtFH0TVJLxhnDg
ReplyDelete"At a campaign stop in Hampton, NH, 2020 candidate Joe Biden told a woman voter that she was a "lying, dog-faced pony soldier" after she asked him why voters should believe that he can win the national election after his abysmal performance in Iowa:"
He was allegedly joking to avoid answering the question--but what the dickens is that supposed to mean? Other than "vote for someone else," that is.
DeleteMatt Taibbi, Rolling Stone: Today’s Dems: An Incompetent Lobby for Doomed Elites [Click] Interesting, if perhaps disjointed and unnecessarily pessimistic. Or optimistic, if it is an illustration of the party remaking itself via revolution.
ReplyDeleteSanders glides toward primary day as moderates brawl [Click] "It’s fratricide at the moment," said one Democrat.
ReplyDeleteAnd now to resume reading The Mouse That Roared.
I have now finished rereading The Mouse That Roared. Perhaps I will now watch the movie again, although it is significantly different from the novel. The book works better as a book, and the movie works better as a movie (which also serves as a vehicle for Peter Sellers).
ReplyDeletePolls dated Monday Feb. 10th:
ReplyDeleteBoston Globe/Suffolk:
Sanders 27%, Buttigieg 19, Klobuchar 14, Warren 12, Biden 12, Yang 3, Gabbard 3, Steyer 2
Emerson:
Sanders 30%, Buttigieg 23, Klobuchar 14, Warren 11, Biden 10, Yang 4, Gabbard 2, Steyer 2
So, Bernie's popularity seems to have increased, as has Klobuchar's.
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