Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumI agree Speaker Pelosi. Democrats must be united to defeat Trump,
and that unity should begin at the Convention. After a nominee is chosen.
Before that, the various candidates will debate, and articulate their positions.
It would be ideal if the supporters of all of these candidates would do the same thing, and explain how their particular candidate is the best choice for President.
In my view, the fear of another Trump term is motivating a large percentage of the attack posts here, and that fear is understandable. But having followed politics since I was 16, if the past 52 years has taught me any few things, it is that people love to argue about politics, and that many people, perhaps most people, do not really follow politics except very close to an election.
And given that weak state of the US media, and the gradual disappearance of newspapers, and the right wing dominance of most of the media, voters are not exposed to much real information.
So these pathetic, televised, reality television style confrontations that are called debates are no place to hear actual information about the real differences between candidates.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Go with Joe and he can get it one on minute one.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)the eventual nominee.
And no matter who that nominee is, the GOP will be united against that nominee, and every position that the nominee takes.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)someone who I think is the hardest sell and has the thickest oppo folder.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)But we shall all see after the Convention who that candidate is.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-claim-pelosi-intentionally-helping-biden-and-hurting-bernie-sanders-2020-1
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/us/politics/trump-sanders-bloomberg-2020.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/17/indictment-russians-also-tried-help-bernie-sanders-jill-stein-presidential-campaigns/348051002/
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/20/18508880/karl-rove-bernie-sanders-could-beat-donald-trump-in-2020
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/07/bernie-sanders-republican-senate-1307296
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)But now I'm curious - how involved was Biden in the Congressional work on the bill?
Being VP and all, he was mostly involved with the Senate. I thought that Schumer was her primary point of contact in the Senate.
Can you be specific?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)That little old thing...
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Prof.Higgins
(194 posts)election unfairly bothsided against Hillary with a tsunami of false equivalence.
For every Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O'Donnell, our MSM has 10 Trump-normalizing show ponies who are mainly striving to enhance their own careers by emphasizing those stories and memes which have the strongest appeal for their wealthiest corporate advertisers.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)When the corporate controlled media controls the debates, the limits of those debates protect the interests of the 1%.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden