The girlfriend and I just voted. Took the boy, too, and taught him how to turn in his ballot. I’m sure he voted for some off-the-wall candidate.
Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, and North Dakota are all states that derive significant revenue from fracking. Bernie’s going to have a rough time getting votes from people he’s promising to put out of work.
The New York Times should know - they’ve been populated by ‘useful idiots’ doing Russia’s bidding for a long time. For example, Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for the Times for his reporting denying the Ukraine famine.
And Bernie Sanders was one of the Soviet Union’s ‘Useful Idiots’ in the 1970’s, visiting Potempkin Villages and expounding on how great Soviet art, education, and healthcare was. The Worker’s Party he was part of was supported by the Soviets and could be counted on to parrot the Soviet line whenever they opened their mouths.
Some of us have been trying to call out Soviet/Russian interference for decades. I guess it took Trump benefiting from it to wake up the left to this.
But the Russians aren’t trying to elect Trump - or Sanders. The Russian strategy has always been division and discord. For example, in the 2016 election they funded pro-Trump rallies AND anti-Trump rallies. Supporting Bernie now is probably not about any belief that he’ll actually win (just like they didn’t think Trump would win), but the stronger that Bernie finishes and the angrier they can make the Bernie Bros, the more discord there will be in the political system. You can bet that if Bernie loses at the convention, the Russians will start a campaign saying that either Trump or Biden orchestrated his loss through shenanigans. And they’ll incite the Bernie Bros as much as they can, just as they did Antifa.
I was referring to stuff like Sanders being interviewed by Chapo hosts or attempting to play off his supporters’ bad behavior as Russian bots:
The second half of that same quote is:
But by prefixing that with the whole, “hey, it may just be Russian bots! I’m not saying it is, but maybe…”, he makes it clear he isn’t willing to call out the “dirtbag left.” Probably a bad strategic call, since he doesn’t really need them and it now seems they’ve hurt his ability to reach out to other voters, but bad strategic calls is why he keeps losing primaries.
Cite for all those states deriving significant revenue from fracking? I live in Missouri and have rarely heard of fracking being an issue here. According to the cites below, MO is an insignificant player in the fracking industry.
North Dakota maybe, but MS and MI? Gonna need cites for those too.
I was going by the ‘Fracking Map’ here:
Map: The Fracking Boom. From Inside Climate News. looks like you use the same link to ‘refute’ me, but the map clearly shows Mississippi as an active fracking state. Looks like I misread another state for Missouri, though.
Again: I accepted your apology already. You don’t have to keep apologizing. I get that you screwed up; it’s okay.
Can we drop this hijack now?
Anyone have a catchy name to call today? Obviously Super Tuesday is already taken. I’ve heard it being casually referred to as Mini Tuesday, but that makes it sound like it’s smaller than your normal Tuesday.
I’m kinda partial to Pretty Good Tuesday. Or Bat-Tuesday.
My girlfriend and I were calling it Okay Tuesday during our suppertime banter.
On NPR I heard it called Big Tuesday.
Duper Tuesday?
Biden vs Bernie.
About ready to get this started.
I’ll let big John McCarthy do the honors:
Interesting that Bernie went home to Vermont tonight.
FiveThirtyEight’s live feed here.
The AP has called for Biden in Mississippi* and Missouri; the networks haven’t called MO yet.
*I just wanted to type that out. 
MSNBC just called Missouri for Biden, at present 47% to 15%.
Well, if last week was Super Tuesday, this must be 'Sidekick" Tuesday…
Not really concerned with the results tonight (interested in Washington, maybe, to see if the results from last week carves into Sander’s support out there), more interested in the debate on the 15th in Phoenix, two days before Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio vote (total 577 delegates at stake there versus only 352 tonight). If Biden performs to expectations tonight, then Sanders will need something special at the debate to try and take at least one (and possibly two) of the big states or he risks the dreaded “not really viable” tag. And with Biden holding the South so far and Illinois being pretty much a ‘machine’ state yet, I see only Ohio in-play.
Likely to be a real testy debate, IMHO. Might make or break things for the Dems.
We shall see.
I’m trying out a Justice League theme: the big three would be Super Tuesday, Bat Tuesday, Wonder Tuesday.
(And some tiny Pacific island could call their primary Aqua Tuesday)
By the way, I join the ranks of Those Who Wish They Could Be Voting For Pete or Liz (but’ll happily vote for Biden).
Turn out the lights,
The party’s over,
They say that all,
Good things must end
Michigan called for Bernie, various networks and the AP
GAH! I meant Biden, of course! Thanks, **ISiddiqui!
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