Exactly.
This is where I land, though I will say I think Kamala would've had a lot better chance than RFKJr. They would both likely had been low.
There was a poll taken among Democrats before she joined the race and she was the number one choice to step in if Joe dropped out. I wouldn't have voted her first then but she has impressed the hell out of me since and I'm not at all unhappy about it now. She has very high favorables among Dems today so it's amusing to see Republicans so upset about our candidate.
Even Russians come up to me and say "Sir, we'd like Kamala to lead our country too" Believe me
Kennedy is using the f out of Trump and he's blind to the consequences. These people are purely transactional and are only in it together to elevate their own profiles.
why didn't they scrub these?
I disagree. Black women are the most important demographic in Democratic voting. She had a lock on those voters. There’s a reason no one ran against her.
They were behind Biden. Biden wrapped up the nomination by winning the SC primary and Black voters made all of the difference. Biden had a long, close connection to Black voters going back 40 years.
Literally the last time there was a primary the most Moderate candidate won.
Fair points and I hear ya.
What is your source for support of Kamala? She won the primary? She finished in last place in the 2020 primary? She stopped the flow of illegal immigrants as Border Czar? She is a Black Woman?
What are you even talking about? Did I say any of those things. Have a good one.
2020? Yes true, but Buttigieg won Iowa, (Biden finished a distant 4th) and Bernie won New Hampshire (an admitted Socialist, and Biden finished a distant 5th.) Then came South Carolina and Biden won due to the African American Congressman from SC endorsing Biden. Then it got interesting because all of a sudden Buttigieg dropped out of the race. Why? He had just won Iowa and finished second in NH. Because the Dem power brokers met in a back room and knew for Biden (the supposed moderate) to win they needed everyone (including Warren) to drop out of the race so it could just be between Biden and Bernie, and the vote wouldn’t be split between 4 or so people. Buttigieg gets a cabinet position, and Kamala gets the VP position (because she was Obama’s choice) to set her up for taking over for the moderate whose had dimentia for at least half of his Presidency. But no worries, just protecting Democracy . Had Buttigieg stayed in the race I doubt Biden would have won, because the Bernie Bros were gonna support their Socialist also.
You make good points … we will never know though to be honest..
Bernie Sanders is successful at the primary level for the same reason Trump has been (IMO). Lack of ranked choice voting. Sanders doesn't come close to representing the majority of the Democratic party, but what he does do is get 100% of the far left. And all the more Moderate Democratic votes are spread amongst a larger number of candidates. Say the far left is 15% of America, then 30% of the Dem party (just choosing round made up numbers). In a primary, if one candidate full gets their section of the party's vote, and the other 70% is spread amongst 5 candidates, the 30% is likely to win or get second in every state, which adds up if different states like different ones of the 5 more main stream candidates. So it often comes down to how often those 5 candidates drop out, consolidating the 70% of the vote. So I'm sure there are some back room deals to get candidates that may not be polling well in future states to drop out. But while that may seem nefarious, it is pretty easy to say it is ensuring the majority of the party is represented.
Good post and I agree with most of what you said. Trump does have a core percentage of voters that will push him over the top in the nomination process … that the others do not have…. Like Bernie does.
