Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forum'Building support and rising': 2020 Democrat Elizabeth Warren surges on far-left agenda
In all three polls, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden led the race, with Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont a distant second.
Ms. Warrens rise was less dramatic in the other two polls. She advanced roughly 2 percentage points in the Morning Consult and the CNN polls, but it was enough to jump into third place with 9% and 8%, respectively.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/2/elizabeth-warren-2020-democrat-surges-far-left-age/
MSNBC is talking about her surge! I have met her and listened to her speak. She is a petite woman that speaks with a roar. She is bright and articulate and has some great, well thought out plans to bring us forward. She persisted, you bet she did, and will continue to do so.
MA is very proud of our Senior Senator, she is a true progressive
That is my Senator.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)She's phenomenal, and a few more weeks like the last few for her and I just may need to make the switch!!
We really have an embarrassment of riches on our side.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)I am torn as well. So many exciting candidates.
Truth, BC.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts).....an awesome candidate. Her laugh and sense of humor would light up the
campaign trail. But Warren really has the goods on the issues. Pete is the
smartest of the bunch, and Inslee has the bona fides on the most important
issue of our time. Embarrassment of riches indeed. Color me happy.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)I don't know why, but I find it so endearing and a perfect example of her enthusiasm and optimism.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)...absolutely the the right word. Thanks, you made my day.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Beatleman
(29 posts)has many good points
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... I could get used to saying that.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)You go Warren!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Warren is knocking their socks off because the country is hungry for these policies. They are FAIR, they represent the future.
I love what she is accomplishing, although I am not surprised.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)However she is a favorite of mine. She has served MA well as our Senior Senator.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)But I want Warren, she will be transformative.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)since she curtly said that she is not a socialist.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)When asked a question of other candidates and where she disagreed, she said she was not there to attack fellow Democrats.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Some great people throughout history have been Democratic Socialists.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Speaking at a staff retreat of the SCLC in 1966, King said that something is wrong
with capitalism and there must be a better distribution of wealth in the country. Maybe, he suggested, America must move toward a democratic socialism.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/20839/martin-luther-king-jr-day-socialism-capitalism
Firstly, George Orwell was definitely a democratic socialist. ... In fact, socialism as Orwell understood it, stood for all the values democracy, liberty, equality that Soviet Communism rejected. Orwell believed that only a truly democratic Socialist regime would support liberty.
https://www.biographyonline.net/socialism-george-orwell/
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)Preaching and book-writing are far far different from politics.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)won't even remain the leader of the Labour party. He is universally hated.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I follow a lot of Labour Party people they all seem to hate Tories and defend Jeremy Corbyn. There is a lot of calling out of Islamaphobia in the conservative parties including calling out support for the Saudi Arabia regime. They have a lot of similar issues and they seem to be on the same side of Progressives on the issues which they seem to care more about than our left party members.
All I know is he took a Labour Party from dead in the water and out performed expectations while surviving challenges to his leadership.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
I have a top five or six myself. I will back anyone of them, George.
Thank you~
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)I love her #JustTwoCents policy to pay for universal child care, two years of college, etc.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)They said in a National poll she is number2!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)PS...I really like Pete as well.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
jalan48
(13,873 posts)Ms. Pelosi the de facto head of the Democratic Party until a presidential nominee is selected in 2020 offered Democrats her coldblooded plan for decisively ridding themselves of Mr. Trump: Do not get dragged into a protracted impeachment bid that will ultimately get crushed in the Republican-controlled Senate, and do not risk alienating the moderate voters who flocked to the party in 2018 by drifting too far to the left. Own the center left, own the mainstream, Ms. Pelosi, 79, said.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287105985
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)She has a proven track record of delivering elections.
"Own the center left, own the mainstream"
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
jalan48
(13,873 posts)go in 2020? It will be an interesting 18 months.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)...and do it loud and forcibly, because you know that tRump and the republicans will call everything we propose as "FAR LEFT!!!!!!!"
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
jalan48
(13,873 posts)by the other corporate news outlets. Let's face it-corporations are not interested in promoting candidates that want to tax and regulate them more.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
jalan48
(13,873 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Fiendish Thingy
(15,631 posts)It's the centrists who are moving to the right to the positions (not including social issues) that used to be held by average Conservatives, 30-40 years ago.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
brer cat
(24,579 posts)We have some very exciting candidates.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)I am...
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,348 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Evolve Dammit
(16,747 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Lunabell
(6,089 posts)But she's about as interesting as cardboard when she speaks. She needs a fire in her belly.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Fire in her belly.
Guess you never saw Warren speak or have even met my Senator. I have.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Lunabell
(6,089 posts)She's no orator.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sunflowerseed
(273 posts)?? WTF
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
tblue37
(65,423 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
yaesu
(8,020 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)I have a preference right now. However....
In the end I will vote Democratic. PERIOD! I won't whine or cry or hold my nose. I will vote for the Democratic candidate.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cary
(11,746 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,757 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)She is far from far left. They just want to paint that picture.
Fact is she is rising and they want to scare peeps by saying her policies are far left.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
airplaneman
(1,239 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
blur256
(979 posts)Coming up in my list of candidates. My wife prefers her. And I can see why. I know there are not a lot of millennial s here but I guess we are? Still not sure where we fit in because we were born in 81 and 82. But let me tell you, our student loan debt is crippling. Between the 2 of us we make about 80 per year. First of all she is a minister so there is that. But I also am working for way under what I am worth, not but choice bit thats whay I could find. We literally cannot afford our loans. We are both working to get out of default, buy even if we do, then what? We are stuck with 500 dollar payments per month that we really can't afford? Per person? How does anyone in my generation get ahead? We can't. If someone would help erase loan debt we could buy a house. Get better jobs. Hopefully live like out parents did. It's so damb infuriating.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
shanny
(6,709 posts)I love the smell of flop sweat in the morning.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Last edited Sat May 4, 2019, 11:17 PM - Edit history (1)
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)She is inspiring, uplifting and bold.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Chin music
(23,002 posts)Clinton for Supreme Court.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,071 posts)Because that is what Rightwing propaganda media does.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
still_one
(92,257 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
AJT
(5,240 posts)"far left". This is an attack peice, not a compliment. They are going to try to paint her as a radical.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
crazytown
(7,277 posts)but capitalism without rules is theft.
The difference between Warren and Sanders is that Elizabeth wants to reform capitalism, not replace it.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)A proven means of securing national prosperity while protecting personal freedoms. when properly controlled.
Versus try-try-again in the kind of extreme ideological experiment that has failed in every nation that has attempted it, and stripped people of rights and freedoms important to them in the process.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Government can take control of industry and curtail freedoms for a short period of of time, but by 1945, even with the war still in progress, the strain was showing. By 1946 people wanted the shackles off, and made the mistake of electing the 'do nothing Republican Congress.
Government ownership and control of industry, including service industries is unAmerican. I dont use that word very often, but in this case it fits.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)he's too vague on too much and is more a Social Democrat than a Democratic Socialist. Her ideas on a wealth tax, a tax on reported profits in companies, and requiring companies to have worker representatives on their boards seems much further left than Sanders is. I think she's smart enough to claim capitalism while undermining it from within.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
crazytown
(7,277 posts)on Corporate boards. Rather than crippling the businesses, it makes and the economic system, more successful.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Bayard
(22,107 posts)It is an honor to have one of my goats named after her. I have Lizzy, along with Mazie, Claire, and baby Kami (Kamala).
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,359 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,801 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
murielm99
(30,745 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden