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[Quixote1818]

1. I think they are taking. I have felt a shift here after everything started coming out

I myself was taking a serious look at him a couple of weeks ago and even posted that I was trying to gauge what he was about. But the stuff I started to see was horrifying. If I wasn't so concerned with beating Trump he would be so far out of my picture it's not even funny. But this is such an important election and it's possible he has the best shot at Trump so I am still trying to decide what to do with him. My primary is way off so I want to see how he does in the debates and I think he might get shredded his pile is so deep. But if he does well and surges to the top of the polls I may have to hold my nose and vote for him if I determine he is the best shot at Trump once my primary rolls around.

[Recursion]

2. Here is not remotely representative of the party, though

Just compare the DU candidate preferences to the polling to see that

[Garrett78]

3. Most anti-Harris criticism I saw came from Biden supporters.

Given the likely toll "superpredators" (and all the attention it got on social media) took on POC turnout for Clinton, why in the world would anyone think it's a good idea to let Bloomberg buy the nomination?

[uponit7771]

11. THIS !!!! The nation doesn't need Trump Light and I don't trust his platform seeing he's been ....

... appealing to Trump for decades.

[wyldwolf]

15. not on matters of ideology, though.

Harris's ill-advised run at Biden over busing made her look amateurish and everyone knew she was trying to score cheap political points at the vice president's expense.

[Garrett78]

16. Actually, that's when her campaign peaked. She got a big bump and a lot of praise after that.

But, as well as she would likely do in a general election, she ran a poor primary campaign in a crowded field. She wasn't prepared with a clear message and waffled on health care.

[wyldwolf]

17. it was. Hence the cheap political points. It crashed for the same reason

[Garrett78]

18. She was right about Biden. That isn't why she fizzled.

[wyldwolf]

19. She was wrong about the issue. No one cared about busing in 2019. And she was excoriated for it

[Garrett78]

20. By Biden supporters, yes. Her campaign fizzled because she wasn't clear about why she was running.

And she screwed up on health care. Plus, all the silly inevitability of Biden talk sucked all the non-Sanders air out of the room. We were all supposed to believe that someone who had twice before failed miserably to get nominated was the answer to all our ills simply because he had been Obama's VP. It was always nonsense. Biden's collapse could be seen from a mile away.

People still care about busing, bankruptcy bills, Anita Hill, etc. Hill still says Biden owes the nation an apology.

[wyldwolf]

21. no, by everyone. Busing wasn't popular in the 70s. It isn't popular now

[ecstatic]

4. I think that's a good point. I don't support

Bloom, but I'm yawning at a lot of the attacks on him. There's something called outrage fatigue and I think a lot of people are experiencing it, especially the anybody-but-trumpers.

Instead of all the focus on what he said or did 5 years ago, maybe focus on the mystery surrounding his platform. Yeah, he was an ok mayor many years ago, but what is he now? Will he be a Zell Miller or a Jimmy Carter in his old age?

[uponit7771]

10. Bloombergs support for his overtly racist racial profiling wasn't 5 years ago. It was last year and

... he never apologized about it.

Trump supported Bloomberg on that and multiple issues Bloomberg was appealing to Trump so I can't see how Bloomberg draws a contrast to what is in office now.

[betsuni]

5. Yes!

[pansypoo53219]

6. he can't buy my vote.

[ucrdem]

7. Bloomberg's shine won't last long.

He could probably out-Trump Trump in a GOP primary but his billions won't get him far in this one. He might knock out Biden and hand the nomination to Bernie, which would be unfortunate, but if Biden bows out there's only one way this thing ends and that's four more for mad king Caligula.

[uponit7771]

9. +1, which is why I think Bloomberg is there now; to knock Biden off. I don't see the numbers on

... any of Sanders cross appeal nationwide.

His support is deep on the left but center and right there's NO appeal.

[ucrdem]

12. What killed Biden's numbers was the impeachment fiasco

which handed Trump everything he was after in the first place, namely tying Biden to shady activities in Ukraine, plus a lifetime supply of teflon. Biden got hammered hour after hour all summer and couldn't do a damn thing about it because it was our show. Of course polling isn't voting, and he might well recover in the two weeks before Super Tuesday, but it won't be easy.

[uponit7771]

13. +1, Trump had to take a couple % off Biden in the Republican polls cause Biden had such

... cross appeal.

In democratic polls it was more than just beating Trump ... just damn

[uponit7771]

8. K&R, If Sanders doesn't turn it up to 1000 against Bloomberg tonight he'll just sound like he thinks

... everyone is greedy bastard.

[wyldwolf]

14. That's a good point...

... not that the left's constant "DINO! DINO! DINO!" ever moved any electoral needles. Fascinating now they support an actual DINO - but one from the left.