Like JFK?
I suppose there are a few, but I have never met any.
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Maybe he just wanted to be part of a winner? He’s a socialist at heart.
I actually think he has role to play in the early stages. This man seems to cut the tension and take out the bitterness of politics.
100%. You have the illusion of choice. George Carlin was right. And lately is just not private corporations working with our government. Its international corporations buying out our politicians.
Foreign aid to fund our politics beyond $1,000 should be illegal! Quid pro quo.
Biden: Likely to make decision within the next two weeks. However, since he has “reportedly told those close to him that he does not feel other potential Democratic presidential contenders could beat President Trump,” it would seem the actual decision has been made, and what will probably happen within the next two weeks is the announcement that the’s running.
Brown: His wife Connie Schultz says they will make a decision on whether or not to run in the next two months. Well, duh. I reckon anyone that wants a chance, or thinks they have a chance, will make a decision in the next two months. He needs to have better headlines than this; he needs to make some news if he wants to make a name in this race.
If Sherrod Brown doesn’t run, my choice is clear: https://thedudesdesigns.com/collections/lebowski20/products/lebowski-20-unisex-tee
Nixon lost to a moron? News to me. I do recall he didn’t immediately jump back into the next presidential race, but spent years re-building his political cred…and, of course, for the political winds to shift.
1968 was a political eternity ago. I really doubt, in this era of the 24/7 news cycle, that anyone can win a major party’s presidential nomination, lose the general election, and then come back to win the nomination AND the Presidency in another election cycle. We see, learn and know so much about our candidates these days that we tend to be pretty sick of them by the time the election actually rolls around.
Billionaire hedge fund guy Tom Styer is not running.
I think I speak for the vast majority of Americans here when I say: who?
had a typo in his name , it’s Steyer
his main focus now is trying to get Trump impeached
Nate Silver has started his primary model The 5 Key Constituencies Of The 2020 Democratic Primary. He divides the Democratic electorate into five groups: Party Loyalists, The Left, Millennials and Friends, Black voters, Hispanic voters (sometimes in combination with Asian voters). And then rates ten candidates on their appeal to each group. He posits that the winner must build a coalition of at least three of the constituencies.
Sherrod Brown plans trip to Iowa. But jeez Louise, Sherrod, I feel like you’re half-assing your way into this. No name recognition, no campaign infrastructure as-of-yet, basically no money in the kitty, and the only headlines these days are about you not being sure if you want to run or not. I feel like he needs to make a decision before the bigger names get in the race. He’s gonna be competing for the same people as Biden and playing catch-up if he’s too cautious. He may be well-known to people in Ohio and political nerds, but he’s got a lot of ground to make up. Debates start in June!
Gillibrand has been chatting to Wall Street, which has pissed off the left-wing of the party. But then again, she’s not the only one - Harris and Booker have been spotted doing the same, for two.
I think a number of prospective candidates are waiting to see what Biden does. If Biden jumps in, I expect to see quite a few fade quietly out of the picture. Brown may be such a one.
That might be, and if true, I think it’ll make the field weaker. I’d much rather see Brown than Biden in this race, but if Biden’s the one scaring people away, it runs the risk of being Hillary/2016 all over again. No one person should clear the field because of some supposed inevitability or strength.
Oh, I agree with you. But the more folks in the field, the fewer pots of money needed to run (thanks to hideous campaign finance laws) will be available to lesser-known candidates. I’m sure you’ve noticed Sherrod Brown suffers from a serious lack of name recognition, and this will be a high bar to surmount if you’re competing against a Biden.
Any Democratic officeholder who endorsed Bernie, only an occasional Democrat purely out of political expediency, has a strike against her in my book.