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2020 Democratic Presidential Nominees

MHBDemon said:
PH wants people to do something other than tear down other candidates, so I'll offer a couple things.

Bernie recently reversed course and said he would support the reparations bill. I have no way of knowing how much DSA played a part in this, but the DSA Afrosocialists and POC caucus had written an open letter on this issue. Also, he hired Briahna Joy Gray as press secretary, and I imagine she had some influence.

Also, Bernie said that states should restore voting rights to all incarcerated people. Most other countries guarantee voting rights to incarcerated people.
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Very positive statement on voting rights. We need to change the rhetoric about felons and the sick being a temporary situation not a permanent status. Part of that is changing our criminal justice system and health care system to reduce chronically incarceration and illness.

Do people only lose voting rights for being in jail? Can people on house arrest absentee vote?

I didn’t know there was a reparations bill. The catch for most candidates was the lack of a plan.
 
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PhDeac said:
Very positive statement on voting rights. We need to change the rhetoric about felons and the sick being a temporary situation not a permanent status. Part of that is changing our criminal justice system and health care system to reduce chronically incarceration and illness.

Do people only lose voting rights for being in jail? Can people on house arrest absentee vote?

I didn’t know there was a reparations bill. The catch for most candidates was the lack of a plan.
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The reparations bill is the HR 40 that Conyers introduced in 89 and gained much more attention after the TNC Case for Reparations article. I think the main purpose it to set up a commission.

Most people in jail have not been convicted and are being held pre-trial, so they should absolutely be able to vote. I think the biggest impediment is just jail policy and whether there is enough local support to get voting rights activists in the jail. It's something I'd like to work on in my area.

The house arrest question probably just depends more on the states policy on felon re-enfranchisement. I'm not sure.
 
Strickland33 said:
I can't quote for some reason, but you wrote this:



So, you're into him because he has a sense of sincerity and genuineness?



I don't care if you're black, white, green, purple...
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I think it would show we have come a long way as a Country if we elected a purple president.
 
Someone tell me why I should be excited about Harris, Gillibrand, Booker, or Beto?

My combined excitement for these four candidates is 0%.
 
MHBDemon said:
The reparations bill is the HR 40 that Conyers introduced in 89 and gained much more attention after the TNC Case for Reparations article. I think the main purpose it to set up a commission.

Most people in jail have not been convicted and are being held pre-trial, so they should absolutely be able to vote. I think the biggest impediment is just jail policy and whether there is enough local support to get voting rights activists in the jail. It's something I'd like to work on in my area.

The house arrest question probably just depends more on the states policy on felon re-enfranchisement. I'm not sure.
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One of my former MA students did some great work registering voters in Chicago jails. I think they had a polling place in a jail too.

Tobacco Road said:
I think it would show we have come a long way as a Country if we elected a purple president.
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Thanos 2020
 
Strickland33 said:
Who is talking about purity, RJ?

I'll vote for Buttigieg if he gets the nomination (just a reminder that I and the other so called Bernie Bros all did this with Clinton), but I sure as hell won't vote for him in the primary. Hell, I'd vote for Gillibrand, Warren, Sanders, Harris, and possibly Hickenlooper over Buttigieg.
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Huge props to Mayor Pete for his speech about being gay last night. His personal statement was strong and so honest. It was particularly poignant when talking about Mike Pence's bigotry. Saying to Pence, "Your problem is not with me. It's with our Creator who created me this way."

Although he'll never get everyone to agree with him, he put the narrative out there to make it more comfortable for millions who weren't sure about voting for or supporting gay people. One more step towards acceptance.

GREAT JOB!!!
 
PhDeac said:
I didn’t know there was a reparations bill. The catch for most candidates was the lack of a plan.
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The bill sets up a study on reparations. It should be an easy bill for Dems to support since it doesn't make any commitments, though I'm sure Republicans will demagogue the hell out of it.
 
Not necessarily “the most”. Depends on the specific election. But certainly it’s an important feature.
 
avalon said:
The bill sets up a study on reparations. It should be an easy bill for Dems to support since it doesn't make any commitments, though I'm sure Republicans will demagogue the hell out of it.
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“Death Panels” redux?
 
Yep.

Sadly, making up catchy lies and demagoguery about Dem attempts to solve problems has become Pubs’ most “effective” and winning strategy.
 
Dave Weigel on the importance of the debates:

Craig asks: What's your best bet for how important the debates will be?

They'll be more important than usual, for several reasons. One: The two polling front-runners are men in their late 70s. Call it superficial, but both Sanders and Biden will be contrasted with much younger opponents on high-definition television, and there is — again, superficially — a history of elderly candidates suffering from that split-screen. For the same reason, there is a chance for either man to surprise Democrats by putting in a vigorous debate performance.

Two: This is the largest Democratic presidential field in the modern history of primaries, and few of the party's candidates have gotten a high-profile setting to introduce themselves. That's not a dig at the CNN and MSNBC town halls with candidates, which have been substantive and well-rated. That's just a statement on how debates can score tens of millions of viewers. The big question for the punditocracy will be who has a breakout moment, though that hasn't really been a feature of Democratic debates. (No recent Democratic candidate has surged after a debate performance, not in the way Newt Gingrich or Carly Fiorina surged after Republican debates.)

Three: To make the debates, candidates must come in at 1 percent in at least three polls or collect donations from at least 65,000 people. It is very possible that one of the Democrats running now will miss the debates, by those standards; it would be hard for that candidate to justify continuing in the race.
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The Trailer: Answers to your questions on Biden, health care and campaign tunes
 
Sounds like Gabbard is being primaried in Hawaii and a lot of people are backing the challenger. I dont think she has a chance in hell for the Democrat primary, though she could likely do well against Trump in an election.
 
This is bad and I'm here to say so. Another reason why I think DSA should not have rushed to endorse.

 
Yeah that’s just a nicer way of saying what Tucker Carlson says.
 
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