Virginia for Booker mainly because it’s closer to New Jersey than the other Super Tuesday states. I think others have mentioned South Carolina due to the higher proportion of African Americans among the Democrats in the state, and they are a demographic he needs to do well with.
Yeah, South Carolina is the first state where African-Americans pick the nominee. No reason for the African-American candidates to not test their strength there before throwing in the towel.
Yeah, but Iowa shouldn’t be a caucus. Caucuses do not represent the will of the people. Just have a damn* election*, willya?
As to Booker, I see. Thanks.
How do you figure? Trump, obviously, is from NY, but never won a statewide election there, and couldn’t have. Bill Clinton, Gore, and Edwards were all from purplish States. Jack Kemp was from NY and Bush I from Massachusetts, but they were Congressmen. Other than them, the only candidates in recent memory on GOP tickets from even vaguely purple States were Pence and McCain, and those States really aren’t very purple. As far as I see, the last candidate on a major party ticket who had won statewide office in a State leaning heavily towards the other party was Lloyd Bentsen, and that was forty years ago.
Right? Beto’s got the juice, for sure.
What I do know is that superdelegates can vote in the second round if no one gets more than 50 percent of the first round votes. On your other questions, I’m not sure–but I *think *delegates become “unbound” after the second round as well. If the candidate they originally pledged to makes some kind of deal, they will probably agree to it, but they don’t have to, AFAIK.
Well, this is something: Julian Castro says he would “establish a group to study” reparations for slavery, and bashes Bernie Sanders for dismissing the idea. Didn’t see that coming.
In other news, Tulsi Gabbard declines to call Assad a war criminal.
And Bill de Blasiois visiting New Hampshire. Really?
This is a feature (though perhaps inadvertantly so) rather than a bug. New Hampshire is a swing state and Iowa, while reddish, may share some demographics with swing states like Pennsylvania. We need a candidate with appeal to the voters of swing states, not ones with strong appeal in the sure-blue or sure-red states.
Iowa’s totally a swing state IMO. Didn’t they go for Obama twice?
In other news, Bernie Sanders is hoping to become the first octogenarian president. He’s really leaning into that brand with his “shower door injury”: https://twitter.com/slackerinc/status/1106610286344241153?s=21
I just saw a clip of Cory Booker being asked if he would support the eventual nominee, regardless of who it is. He unequivocally said Yes, and encouraged all the candidates to do likewise. If they do, and mean it, then we have no problem.
Bush I was a Congressman from Texas. He ran unsuccesfully for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas after having served as head of the Harris County GOP (in Texas). 4 of his 6 children were born in Texas; none were born in Massachusetts. He lived in Texas from 1950 until his death 68 years later.
So although he was born in Massachusetts and spent time there during the summers, for the sake of accuracy, one should consider him as being a politician from a Red state.
Nice!
It’s nice that he said that, but as adahar has pointed out, the only candidate who is likely to cause problems in this regard is Bernie.
I thought the implied “including you, Bernie!” in my statement was obvious.
He’s sure to be asked, and he’d better not fumble.
That’s maybe true, but I dont think us dems should listen to the opposition as to what we should do.
Correction noted, thanks.
Romney-Massachusetts
McCain-Arizona
And the 2016 field presented top tier candidates from New Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
The last Democratic nominees: New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and the current field is heavily loaded at the top level with blue staters, with only Beto considered a possible top tier guy from a non-blue state. The top Democratic contenders in 2016: Delaware, Vermont, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts.
And New York and Maryland.
New York? There is no top tier contender from New York, nor even a 2nd tier contender. There is some lady with the worst flip flopping record of all time and a reputation for incredible insincerity and fakeness in the race, but no one really seems to care that she’s there. But at least I’ve heard of her. Who is running from Maryland?