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Fresh off a decisive 20-percentage-point reelection win, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off 2023 as the odds-on favorite to win the 2024 Republican nomination. Polling showed him handily besting Trump in head-to-heads as well as multiple-candidate...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 01:29 PM PST
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Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, and that proved very true for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during his visit to Iowa over the weekend. Donald Trump, the current 2024 GOP frontrunner and DeSantis' chief rival, was a no-show in Hawkeye State...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 11:38 AM PDT
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JOE BIDEN SCORED A REMARKABLE VICTORY on super tuesday. After that victory for Joe I sat down with the exit polling data and I came across the “Issue that mattered most” question. ...
by pdxbuckeye
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on Mon Mar 09, 2020 at 05:18 AM PDT
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An old joke explains the difference between normalcy, psychosis, and neurosis. A normal person believes that 2 + 2 = 4. A psychotic is sure that 2 + 2 = 5. A neurotic knows that 2 + 2 = 4 but just can’t stand it. By that standard, I’m now a political...
by dratler
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on Fri Mar 06, 2020 at 06:18 AM PST
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Exit polls in primaries and caucuses so far reveal that voters’ #1 concern is nominating the candidate with the best chance of winning in November. This indicates a nationwide awareness, a pervasive fear among Democrats that another four years of...
by GimpyOlNorman
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on Thu Mar 05, 2020 at 12:28 PM PST
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Or should I vote for the establishment centrist candidate who seems to be chosen by the party leadership because he currently seems to appear more electable? If that’s your question on this Super Tuesday, remember our “most electable” candidates aka...
by SaveDemocracy
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on Tue Mar 03, 2020 at 04:16 PM PST
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I voted today for Elizabeth Warren in the primary here in Minnesota. As I left the building, someone else who voted recognized me from the precinct caucus. He asked me if I would tell him who I voted for. I told him and asked who he voted for. He...
by Thutmose V
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on Tue Mar 03, 2020 at 01:55 PM PST
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This is in further exploration of Andy Schmookler’s diary How the Urgent Need to Defeat Trump Has Compelled Me to Change How I'll Vote Tomorrow and the comment thread in reaction to it. Full disclosure: I’m a Warren supporter in Colorado, and have...
by martini drinking atheist
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on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 11:44 AM PST
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This is the companion piece to the previous piece, “To My Fellow Super-Tuesday Democratic Voters: Our Inescapable ‘Electability Challenge,” in which I argued that those of us whose overriding priority in the 2020 election is to defeat Trump -- and all...
by AndySchmookler
709 comments
on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 08:03 AM PST
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Dear Fellow Democrats, I'd like to share with you my thoughts about our Primary Election that's now only two days off. The first thought is about how most of us Democrats have no responsible choice but to focus on the issue of "Electability," and to do...
by AndySchmookler
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on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 07:09 AM PST
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If America finds itself in the midst of a pandemic this fall, which candidate do you trust will be able to motivate people to risk their health and their lives to volunteer for the campaign and to get out and vote on Election Day? As the coronavirus is...
by Eric Stetson
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on Fri Feb 28, 2020 at 09:10 AM PST
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Hat tip to Paul Krugman who picked up on this. LOL. Thanks Ann! If you want a t-shirt that says it all, this is coming from Jackie Ann Ruiz who says she’ll donate 50% of all profits to the Warren campaign. (Explicit and bleeped versions available,...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Feb 27, 2020 at 08:05 AM PST
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I’ve been favoring and/or leaning toward Elizabeth Warren to be the nominee for about a year. And so I have been encouraged by her rise, followed by discouragement at her major decline late last year, and then heartened once more this week by her...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Feb 22, 2020 at 07:17 AM PST
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The idea that only candidate X can beat Trump is the bogeyman of 2020. We hear about it constantly, and evidence like the last-minute deciding in New Hampshire and the weird effectiveness of Bloomberg’s advertising deluge suggests people really are...
by jccayford
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on Wed Feb 19, 2020 at 04:21 PM PST
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This one will be a short diary. One of the biggest talking points against Sanders has been the argument of electability. I personally think he will defeat Trump, but that is not quite what this diary is about. It is more about how ineffective this...
by Mudderway
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on Wed Feb 19, 2020 at 11:03 AM PST
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It is true, I keep vacillating. I know my vote is important, and I vote in every election, local, State, national. My favored candidate is Sanders, and I love both Sanders and Warren, while I have been stating my intent to vote for Bloomberg, because I...
by LtdEdishn
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on Tue Feb 18, 2020 at 05:23 PM PST
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Intro This is quite long. I have done my best to break it up into bite-sized chunks under appropriate headings. I have also done my best to address each of the major issues I have seen raised here over the past few weeks regarding the state of the...
by kbman
53 comments
on Fri Feb 14, 2020 at 02:57 AM PST
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In what seems counter intuitive on the surface and real head scratcher, a Quinnipiac poll released yesterday (Feb 10) shows that support for Michael Bloomberg among black voters is second highest among the Democratic candidates, only behind Joe Biden....
by Citizen Earth
53 comments
on Tue Feb 11, 2020 at 05:04 PM PST
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Riddle me this: What do Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and John F. Kennedy have in common? I think you know the answer. Before primary voting started none of them were given much (if any) chance of becoming their...
by dsnottselliott
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on Mon Feb 10, 2020 at 01:37 PM PST
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"Dewey Beats Truman" was the was the Chicago Daily Tribune's headline on November 3, 1948. Many newspapers from Women's Wear Daily to The Cavalier Daily had similar headlines. In 1960 the Yankees were heavy favorites to win the 1960 World Series. Bill...
by Deep Throat
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on Tue Feb 04, 2020 at 09:34 AM PST
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