Strickland33
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I was impressed by Castro again tonight.
On pure personal preference, I’m all in on a Warren/Castro ticket.
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I was impressed by Castro again tonight.
On pure personal preference, I’m all in on a Warren/Castro ticket.
Yeah if you hadn't ever heard of any of the candidates and were just watching the debates, Castro would be one of the favorites He has been excellent in both debates.
Castro is positioning himself well as a VP candidate or for a Senate run.
are you watching? in a sea of men running to run, you picked two candidates that consistently actually have had something to say
i'm not a klobuchar fan (admitted gillistan), but your statement doesn't match what i have been watching for the last few months
Castro and Pete really need to run. I like your Yang for Mayor pitch.
Who do you, as a conservative, believe the democrats “should” nominate?
Yeah if you hadn't ever heard of any of the candidates and were just watching the debates, Castro would be one of the favorites He has been excellent in both debates.
I'm purple, so I can't speak as a red rhino.
What beats Trump? Pete with a V/P of Yang or Tulsi (in that order).
The Pete and Yang combo hit Trump hard where it hurts; it divides the religious vote and pulls Asians away from the red votes. People keep saying that a dem victory has to have "turnout." That's bullshit; dems always say that and it's fucking stupid.
Frankly, Democrats are terrible at winning elections. The party just isn't designed to do it like the reds are. Obama won because he won, essentially by default, huge swaths of the electorate; 90+% of blacks, 70+% of Latinos, 70+% of Asians. That lightning is out of the bottle, and Hispanics are now supposedly the holy grail for democrats. However, I disagree that some kind of policy shift can capture numbers like Obama did. He is/was our first black president. At the right time, you can get those numbers again with a new minority (women, Latinos, etc.). A Trump re-election is NOT the right time to run a Hispanic candidate. Reds will see near 100% rural turnout, and blues will see a giant drop off in the black vote turnout.
If it's Biden/Warren/Bernie/Kamala, Trump wins in a electoral college victory. Probably without breaking a sweat. I don't think Kamala turns out the black vote like Obama did.
Four months from now, if the field is broader than Biden/Warren/Bernie/Pete/Tulsi/Yang, then I'll be surprised. Maaaaybe Insley in there.
Out of those, I still maintain that Pete and Yang get the job done. However, I think Gabbard as VP could potentially do even better if that campaign pushes her Samoan heritage. I think minority voters turn out big for her if that goes the right way.
Moreover, the red female vote gets split, because now there's a female VP on the ticket.
The veteran vote gets split bigtime - two vets on one ticket makes that demographic swing blue hard.
Finally, there doesn't need to be a hispanic on the blue ticket, because Trump pushes hispanics away from him like the plague. The one issue catholic hispanics won't budge no matter what; but every single one of them will go blue if a Pete/Tulsi ticket spends the time trumping up Trump's hispanic hate.
In retrospect, I put a Pete/Tulsi ticket at something like 10% points ahead of Trump and absolutely demolishing him in the E college.
Fuck me, this is some of the best political analysis I've ever written.
I'm in awe of a Pete/Tulsi ticket. I don't see a path to Trump victory over them, absent some giant fucking scandal.
This ticket should totally appease the Berniebros as well, because Tulsi stepped down in 2016 to endorse him.