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2020 Democratic Presidential Nominees

They clearly don’t understand that Buttigieg and Warren are there on substance vs. the 2016 GOP candidates being clown shows.
 
Right. You can tell Klob is like “I’m a serious woman candidate. I’ll get a bump like Warren any time now.” And Bullock is like “I’m a white guy no one has heard of. I’ll get a bump too.”
 
Another good read on Warren and Pete.

[h=1]Braininess Is Now the Brand[/h] For a party dependent on highly educated voters, Buttigieg’s rise and Warren’s resurgence foretell the future.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/2020-democratic-candidates-nerdiness-good/591673/

If Warren plays the brilliant professor, Buttigieg plays the brilliant student.
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What’s new is that Warren and Buttigieg are leaning into their credentialed intellectualism rather than worrying that it will make them appear elitist. That’s exactly what Clinton’s advisers feared in the summer of 1992, when the Arkansas governor was trailing both George H. W. Bush and the businessman Ross Perot, who boasted that he was assembling a team of “Road Scholars in Washington—that’s r-o-a-d scholars, the people who are street smart and have common sense.” Clinton’s advisers responded with a biographical video, titled “The Man From Hope,” which emphasized his small-town roots and avoided mentioning that he had attended Georgetown University and Oxford. In the film’s only reference to Yale Law School, Hillary Clinton notes that Bill didn’t want to serve on the school’s law review, because he was more interested in returning to Arkansas to be a “country lawyer.”
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Now a decade or two after Bush and DeLay realized that anti-intellectualism mobilizes Republicans, Warren and Buttigieg have realized that intellectualism mobilizes Democrats. Unlike Biden and Sanders, they both poll significantly better among voters with college degrees, who in recent decades have grown substantially as a share of the Democratic primary electorate. Buttigieg’s reputation for detailed, thoughtful answers—as showcased in his widely hailed CNN and Fox News town-hall events—has helped elevate him above his closest generational rival, Beto O’Rourke. And Warren’s unabashed wonkery has helped her close the gap with Sanders on the party’s left flank.
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It’s likely Republicans would try to turn intellectualism into a negative for either Warren or Buttigieg. After all, the general electorate is neither as highly educated nor as favorably disposed toward higher education as Democratic primary voters. It’s a tactic that’s worked in the past. What’s harder to know is what will happen if a Democratic nominee wears these attacks as a badge of honor. To the debates over whether America is ready for a woman or a gay president, Warren and Buttigieg are adding an additional wrinkle: Is it ready for a nerd president, too?
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Debate lineup. It's basically a JV debate led by Warren (Orange) and a varsity debate with 4 of the 5 top candidates the next day (Purple). Good news for those who need exposure.


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Interesting info.

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My early take on the debate lineups. Warren should dominate the first debate. Beto and Klob could help themselves, but Warren really has no competition on that stage. Biden and Bernie got a tough draw. Pete and Harris have a huge opportunity to move up after this. Gillibrand and Yang could help themselves out with some good soundbites as well. There will be a lot of pressure on the moderators to make sure everybody gets a fair amount of time.
 
PhDeac said:
My early take on the debate lineups. Warren should dominate the first debate. Beto and Klob could help themselves, but Warren really has no competition on that stage. Biden and Bernie got a tough draw. Pete and Harris have a huge opportunity to move up after this. Gillibrand and Yang could help themselves out with some good soundbites as well. There will be a lot of pressure on the moderators to make sure everybody gets a fair amount of time.
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Seems like a fair take. Warren is the biggest winner of the group in the draft.
 
sailordeac said:
how do you tell varsity from JV with this bunch?
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Well the simplest way to do it would be to add up the total poll numbers for each debate. The second sums much higher than the first.

The goal was to equally split the top and bottom tiers across both debates, but the polls now show a clear top 5 of Biden, Bernie, Warren, Pete, and Harris. Four of those top 5 are in the second debate, so it's clear that's the varsity debate.
 
Sure, but she'll dominate the coverage leading into the Purple debate.
 
PhDeac said:
Another good read on Warren and Pete.

[h=1]Braininess Is Now the Brand[/h] For a party dependent on highly educated voters, Buttigieg’s rise and Warren’s resurgence foretell the future.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/2020-democratic-candidates-nerdiness-good/591673/










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They need to make the distinction that they achieved that academic success and went to those prestigious schools on their own merits while the real "elites" are the ones that got into those Ivy league school because of their parents. That directly implicates Trump with the "Coastal Elite" tag and separates them from it. Anyone that doesn't get that isn't going to be won over, regardless.
 
Warren has done a good job of establishing herself as an Oklahoma girl who just wanted to be a school teacher and got a scholarship to college then dropped out to get married and raise a family then got help from her family to allow her to go to the local college and get a degree and she worked her way up to the Ivy Leagues.
 
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