The Democratic Presidential Debates

mickeyrat said:

Impressive night for Biden.

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Seems like it’ll be biden to me, and that’s great news since he can’t take a debate without looking like a stammering skeleton, if he even gets his broken thought out without forgetting it halfway.  Trump will obliterate him on the stage, especially once all the shit hits the fan with him and his son that’s going to come out in the next few months.  It’s all planned to come out once he’s the nominee, and he already freaks out when asked by reporters, wait until orange man comes at him with it. 

And as for the AA vote, they all know they’re better off now than they were when Obama pulled the strings, it’s only if they’ll admit it or not.

At his Super Tuesday night rally in Burlington, Vt., Sanders vowed that his candidacy would “create the highest voter turnout in American political history” — particularly among young voters, new voters and voters of color. It’s one of his signature lines, a cornerstone of his “political revolution.”  

Yet Sanders has not demonstrated that he can deliver on this promise. In every one of the 15 states and territories that voted Tuesday, Sanders drew a smaller share of the vote than he drew during his primary contest against Hillary Clinton four years earlier. Even in his home state of Vermont, he won only 52 percent of the vote, down from 86 percent in 2016.

In the run-up to Super Tuesday, a New York Times analysis found that the demographic groups Sanders is counting on have not been turning out in historic numbers, either. The Times reported that in the Iowa precincts where Sanders won, turnout increased by only one percentage point from 2016; that turnout increased far more in the New Hampshire townships won by former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, than those where Sanders won; that the share of young voters remained essentially unchanged everywhere; and that the share of first-time voters actually decreased.

Those patterns largely persisted on Super Tuesday. According to the exit polls, the youth turnout was down from 2016 in Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont and Texas — and in many cases, Sanders won a smaller share of the youth vote than he did last time around.

“If you’re Bernie Sanders, this is your worst-case scenario,” commentator Van Jones said on CNN. “Because you’re now beginning to see the logic of the revolution begin to break down — the idea that you’re going to have young people come out in large numbers.”

Ledbetterman10 said:

So Liz comes in third in her home state, has less delegates than Pete who already dropped out, and yet she’s still going forward. For fuck’s sake. 

CM189191 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

What to say about people voting for Joe Biden...

cry moar

get it out now

biden will still need your vote in Nov