2020 Democratic Candidates Tracker Part III

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Skeptic Ginger said:
Goodness sakes boys, as a woman I did not find Warren's cleaning house comment to be a gaffe. You're trying too hard.
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Distracted1 said:
Why would a woman necessarily be the best person to call to fix any problem?
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FWIW...

I took it as a joke along the same line as, for example, a scene in He-Man. The guy heroes were stuck in a firefight getting nowhere. Woman shows up, just shoots all the baddies, problem solved.
 
Belz... said:
Oh, so now you're even claiming that we don't even think what we claim to think. That's rich.
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:boggled: Sorry but I don't see how I claimed any such thing.

How about your reaction and those of other people can be different?
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Obviously.

Me: I don't think it was a gaffe.

Me: I believe that seeing it as a gaffe was excessive pro-feminism.

I don't see me telling anyone what they think.
 
Bloomberg financed Warren's Republican opponent in her 2012 senate race. Wonder if that will come up tonight?
 
Sanders and Buttigieg clashing over nasty supporters on Twitter and the nets.

Swing and a miss from Buttigieg.

I think Sanders handled it well. He explicitly 'disowns' the nasty Tweeters who support him.

Here comes Klobuchar with the non sequitur 'vote for a woman candidate to stop sexism then...'
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
The knives are out in all directions tonight at the debate.
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I'm not watching, but I hope a lot of them are pointed at Bloomberg. I've decided I don't like him. When the best you can say about someone is "not as bad as Trump", that's not so good. I'll vote for him if he gets the nomination, but I won't be enthusiastic about it.

Meanwhile, his is the name I've heard over and over in media today. Just like Trump in 2016. And why should it not be that way, eh? After all, you have to treat your customers well, and Bloomberg's ad spending makes him one of their biggest customers.
 
Meadmaker said:
I'm not watching, but I hope a lot of them are pointed at Bloomberg. I've decided I don't like him. When the best you can say about someone is "not as bad as Trump", that's not so good. I'll vote for him if he gets the nomination, but I won't be enthusiastic about it.

Meanwhile, his is the name I've heard over and over in media today. Just like Trump in 2016. And why should it not be that way, eh? After all, you have to treat your customers well, and Bloomberg's ad spending makes him one of their biggest customers.
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Donald Trump wasn't a big media ad buy customer in 2016. Bloomberg's gonna lose. He has to spend millions of dollars to get the kind of coverage Trump got for free.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Liz is murdering Bloomberg on live TV.
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That's comforting.

As for Liz, I've decided I like her a lot more, too. Yes, she's still too close to socialist for my taste, but I would rather have an intellectual socialist than an ideologue socialist. Still, what I fear is that Bloomberg's money will take the wind out of everyone's sails except Bernie, but Bloomberg himself doesn't have the staying power for the Democratic nomination, so by the end of Super Tuesday, Bernie will pretty much have things wrapped up.

This whole primary system is a messed up way of picking a president.
 
With all the squabbling on stage, and Bloomberg with his women, surprisingly it's Biden that gained by tonight's debate. There was a lot of "I'm the guy" stuff from him, but we are used to it. And it would also work well with Trump.:D To Trump: you are the guy that rode a limo at Indy 500 and keeps talking about yourself. Nothing but talk.
 
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theprestige said:
The primary system isn't a president-picking system. I thought you understood politics better than this.
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Not quite sure I understand what you mean.

Of course, it is (one component of) a nominee picking system, but that's a pretty significant part of the process of picking a president, isn't it?

You must be getting at something. What is it?
 
Meadmaker said:
That's comforting.

As for Liz, I've decided I like her a lot more, too. Yes, she's still too close to socialist for my taste, but I would rather have an intellectual socialist than an ideologue socialist. Still, what I fear is that Bloomberg's money will take the wind out of everyone's sails except Bernie, but Bloomberg himself doesn't have the staying power for the Democratic nomination, so by the end of Super Tuesday, Bernie will pretty much have things wrapped up.

This whole primary system is a messed up way of picking a president.
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I thought she did well tonite. But I can't entirely trust my objective evaluation of the debate- as I liked her most already.
 
Bloomberg is decidedly not Prime Time™ at all.

Buttigieg has to own the entire middle since its so crowded, so he's hippy punching like crazy.

Klobuchar has moments and flubs.

Biden was tripping up a lot early on, but now he rises to shouty drunk uncle mode pretty quickly.

Warren got the finishing move on Bloomberg for sure. She's consistent but not so noteworthy.

Sanders is full on unrepentantly Sanders
 
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