Shooshmoo
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My second thought is why does it suck so much to be a woman?
Because men suck so much.
My second thought is why does it suck so much to be a woman?
Because men suck so much.
Is it just men? That would be my first assumption, but maybe female candidates are polling relatively poorly with women as well. I bet 538 has had a piece on that issue. But yeah, Pete generally polls a bit better v. Trump than Harris does. So maybe it's better to be a gay white man than a woman of color. I dunno.
Could that not be read that to say 50% want a more progressive candidate and 37% want a center leaning Dem candidate? I mean maybe all Warren or Sanders supporters don't support the most similar candidate as their backup, but it still would seem to be more likely than those who support Biden.
That article doesn’t really offer much. What it doesn’t address is that many Democrats would have deserted the party if they didn’t force out Franken. And many Republicans would have deserted the party if they didn’t force through Kavanaugh. This isn’t a difference in tactics. This is a difference in basic values.
Republicans use Democrat values against us. The only way to stop that is to gain power and use it to force Republicans to operate by the same values.
Biden busted again on plagiarism for his "climate plan". At least half a dozen excerpts seem to have been directly lifted from other sources. After getting caught, the campaign has added footnotes.
Yup, sloppy campaign work, but only a blip on the big radar picture (I'm assuming this was a staffer who wrote it b/c it's not like Biden is exactly an expert on climate change).
It shows terrible campaign management. The #1, #2, #3, all the way #1000 and beyond for a Biden campaign is to check and recheck everything for even a hint of plagiarism. The rest of the army that is running is looking for a way to take him off his perch. Now, they can say, "there he goes again".
The only possibly good thing they can garner from this is that it happened so early.
It shows terrible campaign management. The #1, #2, #3, all the way #1000 and beyond for a Biden campaign is to check and recheck everything for even a hint of plagiarism. The rest of the army that is running is looking for a way to take him off his perch. Now, they can say, "there he goes again".
The only possibly good thing they can garner from this is that it happened so early.
It really should not be that big of a deal. The role of the Presidential Candidate is to be a spokes person for the party's ideas. While policy proposal do originate from the white house, it is far more important for the President to be really good at selling ideas to legislators and the public than generating his/her own. He definitely should be citing sources, but it would not bother me at all if he campaigned on "I'm the guy that can build the relationships and networks necessary to successfully implement AOC's Green New Deal..." or whatever pro-climate environmental policy he steals.
Think my problem is he's not really keen on selling key party ideas and wants it to still be the mid-90s Dem party.
He's still pro-Hyde amendment, still not backing down from crime bill shit, still not apologizing for terrible takes on wars, basically just an intractable old man. I'm not sure how good he'll be pushing a remotely progressive agenda. Dude would make a killer GOP candidate if he just grifted a little harder.
Think my problem is he's not really keen on selling key party ideas and wants it to still be the mid-90s Dem party.
He's still pro-Hyde amendment, still not backing down from crime bill shit, still not apologizing for terrible takes on wars, basically just an intractable old man. I'm not sure how good he'll be pushing a remotely progressive agenda. Dude would make a killer GOP candidate if he just grifted a little harder.
Think my problem is he's not really keen on selling key party ideas and wants it to still be the mid-90s Dem party.
He's still pro-Hyde amendment, still not backing down from crime bill shit, still not apologizing for terrible takes on wars, basically just an intractable old man. I'm not sure how good he'll be pushing a remotely progressive agenda. Dude would make a killer GOP candidate if he just grifted a little harder.