Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Is it too soon to be talking 2020?

Earlier a friend of mine said that NO ONE can beat Trump because he looks bigger on the debate stage.
"He's taller than all the Democrats"
Oh well, no point in even running any candidates, I guess

whoops, my bad Hamish.

I’ll sit back and listen. Seems like I’ve hit a nerve with you.

Feel free to take a political position. Who knows what it’ll be.

If any Democrat takes the Presidency and congress goes Democratic, too, you most certainly will see some major changes. You won't see a massive shift to the left, even if Bernie wins. But I predict you will see massive voter reform including restoration of the Voting Rights Act. You would almost surely see lots of fixes to ACA, including a public option at the least. You would certainly see our foreign relations and immigration policy restored to sanity.

Even Trump's Chief of Staff told a meeting in Englad the other day that we are desperate for immigrants to fill low-paying jobs. I think that would take the form of a Farm Labor temporary work program.

Well, certainly fatter!

The new playtoy of the media is "down-ballot damage" from a Bernie candidacy. The idea is that a Bernie win is so toxic that people would rather have four more years of Trump rather than help the raging Castro-hugging commie.

They'd rather abandon both chambers of Congress rather than see Bernie get in the White House. The Soviet National Anthem will blare from every TV set in the nation.

Either the debate broke Biden's way or blacks are returning to him. On 1 Feb Biden had a 18 point lead over Sanders in South Carolina. That shrunk to 3 points on 21 Feb. Blacks, Biden's strength fell from 55% support on 1 Feb down to 37% on 21 Feb. Biden probably regained most of the blacks he had lost back after the debate. Biden's lead is now 11 points.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/e...emocratic_presidential_primary-6824.html

I don't have the updated figures yet, but on 21 Feb among blacks in South Carolina, Biden was the choice of 37%, Steyer 24% and Sanders 17%. Among whites it was Sanders 47%, Warren 24%, Biden 18%.

Blacks are especially important in South Carolina as in 2016 they made up 57% of all the Democratic Primary vote. This may set up a pattern to be followed on Super Tuesday, where there are a lot of black voters, the south, Biden does very good in those states, Sanders not so good. Where the state is mostly white, it's Sanders all the way.

We'll see, It all depends whether or not Biden has regained his once very high black support.

Don't flatter yourself.


I have. Repeatedly. I will be voting for Sanders.

I'll vote for him in the upcoming primary, and I've sent him what little I could afford to send, but if it boils down to someone else when it is all said and done, I'll adapt if I have to.
Karen and I cannot afford four more years of this crap.

The Democratic Party is interfering in the elections with the most popular candidate.
I wouldn’t expect Sanders supporters to come out to vote.
Without that large support it’s doubtful they’ll win in the general.
You’ll be voting for a party that sabotages itself.

An interesting problem.