Democratic Primaries
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/06/yang-williamson-democratic-debates/592285/All together, the eight other politicians who will be onstage next Thursday nightto say nothing of the 10 more that will face off the night beforehave about 150 years of experience as elected officials. Yang and Williamson have zero. Neither candidate has ever held public office at any level. Each is running the kind of against-the-odds, quixotic campaign that in years past would be easy to dismiss, laugh off, or just plain ignore. But Donald Trump is president, his seemingly out-of-nowhere 2016 victory having served as equal parts apocalypse and inspiration for left-leaning political novices across the country to shoot their shot. And the Democratic Party, four years after its campaign apparatus incited a grassroots revolt by appearing to anoint a favored front-runner as its nominee, is now welcoming all applicants with open arms.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
we can do it
(12,193 posts)Why should anyone take him or several others running seriously?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Shrek
(3,983 posts)You can find any number of assertions (from serious, respected people like Larry Sabato) who said that Trump had no chance, none, to even become the Republican nominee. And we all know how that worked out.
So I don't find it especially surprising that a lot of candidates are willing to risk a long-shot candidacy in the hopes of catching lightning in a bottle. There's now precedent that it can work.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)And Im pretty sure the majority of the Republican Party was compromised by Russia. I dont think Trump won anything fair and square.
Nobody knows Yang.
And Im glad Seth didnt make the debates. His going after Pelosi showed he has really poor judgement and he is feeling the pushback.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)If anything, we've seen what a disaster having an unqualified president leads to.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)Although several of the presidential primary candidates will not garner enough support to really have any chance at becoming the Democratic nominee, the nature of this year's race has made it possible for such candidates to get noticed to some degree.
I doubt very much that Yang and Williamson every really thought they had a chance, except for a chance to bring up issues and get them discussed. So, they're doing everyone a service by making proposals that genuinely deserve notice.
It's a good thing.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ariadne0614
(1,735 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Funtatlaguy
(10,886 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PDittie
(8,322 posts)Seth Moulton ...?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided