Democratic Primaries

cherryinpa

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Thu Feb 13, 2020, 08:31 AM

Feb 2020

Saying this as a Biden / Klobuchar supporter so believe me I am VERY skeptical of the Bernie bro’s but thinking Bloomberg’s gonna save us is fantasy. I remember the postmortems here after Nov 2016 when the common consensus was that we needed a positive vision, we needed something like a strong message that we’re not just an alternative to a Trump.

And here we are again 4y later being pitched the “alternative to Trump”.

Will it be sufficient to win the core Democrats like DU posters? Yes, probably most of them. But can you imagine the reaction on our left leaning folks if we install a Republican Billionairre?

Biden, Klobuchar, Warren, Pete and even Bernie are all Democrats or ally’s with decades supporting the party and we should chose from them, now need to look to a Wall Street messiah.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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The party base will turn out and vote for Bloomberg if he is the nominee [View all] Kaleva Feb 2020 OP

"It's our Duty to vote for Bloomberg" is not exactly a galvanizing or inspirational message Tom Rinaldo Feb 2020 #1

Defeating Trump and other Repubs is pretty good motivation for me. Kaleva Feb 2020 #2

I'm wondering about the college students jimfields33 Feb 2020 #3

I don't see many college students supporting Bloomberg after his racist rants came to light. n/t zackymilly Feb 2020 #7

Valid and excellent point jimfields33 Feb 2020 #8

I imagine there are college students who are fine with another 4 years of Trump Kaleva Feb 2020 #18

OK cherryinpa Feb 2020 #35

Hillary won about 3 million more votes then Trump Kaleva Feb 2020 #36

If the first two primaries are any indication, they don't vote. Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #29

Sad cherryinpa Feb 2020 #4

It sounds like we BlueMTexpat Feb 2020 #6

Its makes me angry cherryinpa Feb 2020 #15

It is surprising ... and BlueMTexpat Feb 2020 #16

Bloomberg may please with his VP pick pandr32 Feb 2020 #26

I am inherently skeptical of ANY candidate BlueMTexpat Feb 2020 #5

and so will evertonfc Feb 2020 #9

Count me in among those who hope he is not the nominee. CentralMass Feb 2020 #10

If you don't want Bloomberg IT'S TIME to rally around Biden then. nt UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #11

That theory didn't work in 2016. DanTex Feb 2020 #12

The base turns out in every election Kaleva Feb 2020 #13

Exactly right ForEverGlades Feb 2020 #14

I am even more stumped that he still has supporters jimfields33 Feb 2020 #19

It's uhhh..." remarkable " ForEverGlades Feb 2020 #20

Very true. jimfields33 Feb 2020 #22

2016 was all about an email server. StevieM Feb 2020 #30

And it'll be suppressed if he still supports racial profiling uponit7771 Feb 2020 #17

That didn't work out so well in 2016 democrattotheend Feb 2020 #21

Those people are not the base. Kaleva Feb 2020 #23

I will vote for the Democratic nominee in November. If it's Bernie, Bloomberg, Mayor Pete, TeamPooka Feb 2020 #24

Many will not. And we would lose badly. Garrett78 Feb 2020 #25

I would hope if you're a true blue democrat you wouldn't have to be blueinredohio Feb 2020 #27

Good luck customerserviceguy Feb 2020 #28

He could have real problems in CA, OR, WA, CO Baclava Feb 2020 #31

While I'm fairly certain customerserviceguy Feb 2020 #32

Sorry, I was talking about the primaries, people getting ahead of themselves, primary races first Baclava Feb 2020 #33

The party base will turn out and vote for a bowl of tapioca if it is the nominee! N/T flotsam Feb 2020 #34