I haven’t made made up my mind who I support yet, but there are a number of candidates I think should drop out. Tulsi Gabbard is just plain annoying, and the rest of the Congresspersons seem like they are running for vice president. I don’t like Kirsten Gillibrand either.
Who do you think should drop out?
PTF
Theoretically they should all stay in if their intention is to get their messages out there. But Inslee, Hickenlooper, Klobuchar, Gillibrand, and Gabbard all have no realistic shot at the nomination.
I’d like everyone to drop out except for my preferred candidates. So everyone but Inslee, Booker, Harris, Klobuchar, and Sanders should drop out.
I voted for the ones I’ve never heard of, and Bernie.
I voted for all the absolute nobodies, plus Beto, Warren and Gillibrand. Some of the others are, yeah, running for VP, but I took into their consideration their legitimate self interest in keeping their profile up for a VP nomination. For example if a white male (even the unlikely case of gay white male Mayor Pete) wins the P nomination, he will almost 100% surely choose a female and/or POC VP, and if it’s an older WM then also a younger VP. So people like Booker and Harris really can benefit by sticking around in the P race long enough to show off some good debating or other good campaigning, if they can, even if they can’t really light the primary electorate on fire after their underwhelming introductions. Whereas Beto and Warren have also flamed out but nobody is going to pick Beto as VP and Warren really unlikely because of age despite female.
Yang, Booker, and sanders.
Yang because no chance, Sanders because his Bernie bros may hand Trump a win, and Bookers because he is crazy anti-gun.
Sanders, Gillibrand, and Gabbard. They’re at the bottom of my list of the candidates with name recognition.
Sanders’ act is tired but his Bernie Bros are still dangerous.
Gillibrand is dead to me after her sandbagging of Al Franken.
Gabbard is a nut job, but I don’t want her developing a cult following either.
Several people on this list, I have never heard their names and I don’t have the faintest idea of who they are:
Michael Bennet
John Delaney
Tim Ryan
Marianne Williamson
Wayne Messam
They should drop the hell out because at this point, if we don’t know who you are, you haven’t been trying hard enough to be worthy of consideration.
I assume there’s a limit of 20 poll options. Buttigieg, Bullock, and De Blasio didn’t get in.
While I don’t dislike the guy’s ideas in general, Andrew Yang is the only one I am certain of that should drop out. I have this quaint idea that running a presidential campaign should, you know, actually be oriented toward the goal of running for president. If anyone others are thinking more about publicity than a potential 2020 run, they also should drop out.
My fault. My list didn’t have DeBlasio, but I just dropped the ball on Buttigieg and Bullock.
Yeah, this is why I’m not convinced this kind of thing makes sense.
I actually like those two better than most of the field. But to be fair, I’m not convinced either is the right choice for President, at least this cycle.
Stop making me like Booker!
What about Booty-Edge-Edge?
I only voted for the ones that I have heard next to zero about, and I pay pretty close attention to this stuff. I didn’t choose based on my preferences, or my “please go away” candidates.
I can’t help but wonder what the underlying grift is for running when one has next to zero chance of making a dent? It seems that just about anyone can attract donations. But the law says you can’t just pocket the money once you drop out. It really is curious to me.
Some focused candidates — Yang, Buttigieg, Inslee — may improve the debates, but wasting stage space on a dozen more mundane also-rans will just detract from the Ds needs.
I checked the Bernie Box also — I’d love it if the Ds could find some way to harvest Bernie energy; but don’t give this socialist a shot at the nomination.
Harris (MOST definitely), Booker, Beto, whathsisnames, whatshernames… everyone except Warren & Biden. Ticket should be Biden/Warren.
Biden is going to need someone who’s not old and white to balance his ticket, Warren would be an awful choice.
I voted for Bennet, Delaney, Swalwell, Molton, Ryan, Williamson, and Mesam on the grounds that I’ve never heard of them.
Then I added Yang, because the Presidency is not an entry-level position. If he wants to be in politics, he needs to run for something else.
Then I added Warren, because although I like her, she’s doing terribly by any objective measure, despite plenty of name recognition, and Sanders is doing a much better job of representing basically the same ideological space as her.
And then I added Gabbard, because she’s in the wrong party.
Everyone but Sanders, Warren, and Gabbard. I want Sanders to win, with one of the others as the VP. I won’t vote for anyone else (so you can blame the 2020 results on ME)
I see a repeat of 2016 - the DNC will pick a right-winger to lose against Trump.
I voted for the ones I never heard of (because if someone reasonably attentive to the news hasn’t heard of them, they’re wasting their time) and Gabbard (who is too deeply steeped in both-siderist nonsense* to be taken seriously).
*Specifically, I dismissed her when she both-sided the government shutdown a few months ago.