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In reply to the discussion: I was wrong about Vice President Biden. [View all]Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Hard to believe that was nearly a year ago. Bus load of older whites. Naples is very conservative. Golf demographics are heavily right wing. To my amazement, maybe 15 of them began discussing politics, and specifically the Democratic debate from one night earlier. The consensus was that they could support a Democrat above Trump, but only if it was Biden or Bloomberg.
All the others were announced as, "too far out there," meaning too far liberal. That "too far out there" phrase in particular drew loud unanimous agreement.
I was still aligned with Klobuchar at that point, but realistically I began hoping for Biden or Bloomberg. Anyone but Bernie Sanders. He was the epitome of "too far out there" and would collapse every race in Florida 2020, plus send the Cuban community against Democrats for at least a full generation. I can't tell you how scared I was of Sanders being the nominee.
IMO, Bloomberg would have done great against Trump also. Obviously it would have been a totally different type of race. I'll settle for this smooth running classy Biden campaign. But Bloomberg spending a billion plus to viciously define Trump every day of the race would have been fun also. Plus imagine Bloomberg jumping on that story of Trump's phony wealth, and $421 million debt.
Biden has found a strong voice and really impressed me. I was worried he'd be the Democratic version of Bob Dole in 1996...good guy but not special enough to be elected president.