Biden/Warren 2020: Who wants hard candy?
Would it? If this site is correct, there’d be a special election:
I would have expected a lot more “Biden was my first choice”. I mean, obviously someone in the party likes him.
The feeling I had was the Biden was only the first choice of 20-25% of Dems. But he was a far greater number of peoples acceptable choice. I think the support for Hillary was probably about the same in the end but with a lower number of acceptable choice.
It looks like Biden wasn’t even 20% for Dopers, but I don’t think that is much of a surprise. This board runs to the left overall. Bernie, Warren & Booker had a lot of support. Also a lot of people legitimately worry about Biden’s age.
I think Biden provided a good safety candidate for a lot of people so they could put their support on someone else in the crowd. If it had been just 2-3 possible candidates Biden would have been at the top of the list for more people, but maybe not the last man/woman standing.
I’m going to step in and declare this out of bounds.
Let’s make this thread about the polling and discussion and leave the frantic cries about other’s preferences out. Or at least keep them at a minimum.
Well, we skew white, Gen X and pretty lefty. You gotta take that into account, my friend. We ain’t most of Biden’s key demographics.
For me?
I’d say I’d have been happy with Mayor Pete, Harris or Warren. But Biden will be acceptable for me except for my inherent pissed-offedness about having to vote for one more goddam boomer.
But I’m in the ‘True Blue No Matter Who’ camp. A new President may be an unknown quantity but the current one is a KNOWN quantity and I sure don’t want more of that.
I chose #1, because he’s who I expected to actually vote for in the primary and general election (and did in the primary), although I’d have preferred Pete Buttigieg, but he dropped out prior to my chances to actually vote.
I thought Biden should have run in 2016 when he was at the peak of power and popularity as the second in command of a popular administration. I know his son died so a grieving process was needed but the cynic in me if I was advising him would have been to run and do it for his son.
Biden is not a boomer. He would be our first (and last) silent generation president.
I knew that would pop up definitionally, but talk to him, see how he functions. It’s like my mom - born in late 44 - telling me she’s not a boomer despite her tye-die wearing, hippy and disco ways.
I feel that the fact that people turned to Biden indicates we weren’t finding a new face to coalesce around.
In many ways except his age, he was the candidate with the best chance to win. His rust-belt appeal to flip back those states Trump won over Hillary is very strong.
His appeal to African-Americans is very strong, stronger than I thought based on the large turn out for him in the primaries and polls from that community.
Then the sadly small turnout of the youth vote for Sanders showed that his candidacy was weaker than I thought. Sanders of course also suffered from age.
Finally Biden plays well with Seniors and may well take Florida & Arizona, this would be a big set-back for Trump.
There is no scenario in which I’d vote for Trump. I thought Biden was the Dems best chance at beating Trump all along. Sanders would have been an unmitigated disaster. I can likely live with Biden as POTUS, but I’m voting third party.
So, if I’m reading this correctly, Trump is terrible and Biden is okay, but you’re voting for a third party which helps the *terrible *and hurts the okay.
But keep in mind, he’s a Republican refusing to vote for Trump at least.
That was me in 2000, voting Green over Bush/Cheney.
Eight million of those 66 million were in California. Take out the 8 million Dem votes AND the 4 million Rep votes from California, and Donald Trump is the popular vote winner in the other 49 states.
I would trade a million of those California votes for 25,000 votes in Michigan, another million for 50,000 votes in Pennsylvania, and another million for 30,000 votes in Wisconsin. Those are the voters I’m worried about looking for a reason to justify their votes for Trump.
I liked Cory Booker and then, when he dropped out, switched to Elizabeth Warren. Very sorry neither of them went the distance. Joe Biden, for all his many flaws, is 'waaaaaaaay better than the incumbent, and I will certainly volunteer, donate and vote for him.
Not exactly. I’m not a Republican. Stopped identifying as such when Bush the Younger took us into an unnecessary war. By this board’s standards, I’m fairly conservative, but most of those graph your ideology type tests will place me only slightly right of center.
I cannot vote for Biden because of his support for an assault weapons ban and other anti-gun measures. If he wins, while I likely will not agree with all of his policies, I can at least accept that he’s a reasonably decent man. Put another way, If Biden wins, I will no longer have to be ashamed of POTUS. And rely on control of Congress remaining divided to prevent anything too radical from getting enacted.
You can, but you choose not to because, apparently, you believe guns are more important than all the other issues (including general decency) Biden is better than Trump on. You are free to make this choice, but why on earth would you?