The 2020 thread....

hutch wrote: Cuban Americans (Florida Florida Florida)

I knew there were a lot and are influential…but just read As of the 2010 U.S. Census, there are 1.2 million people of cuban decent in Florida!

but to add to that
estimated 1.2 million Puerto Ricans now live in Florida, a population that rivals the number of Cubans

I don't think that many from PR are going to vote for trump

also think of all those Felons too!

FL BLUE all the way!

We heard the huge recent influx of Puerto Ricans would sway FL in D direction but it did not in 2018

Skeptical about FL


Anyways biggest news is RBG continuing to fight pancreatic cancer….another vacancy filled by Trump would be something

Why she did not retire early in Obama’s second term I will never understand

It should go without saying pancreatic cancer has a low five year survival rate

hutch wrote:
Anyways biggest news is RBG continuing to fight pancreatic cancer….

saw a great quote from her

"There was a senator..after my pancreatic cancer, who announced w/great glee that I was going to be dead within 6 months," Ginsburg said. "That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I," she added with a smile, "am very much alive."

Space wrote:

hutch wrote:
Who?

Isn't he an SNL cast member? (Seth Moulton)

this is some funny shit

@realDonaldTrump
The Dow is down 573 points perhaps on the news that Representative Seth Moulton, whoever that may be, has dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race!

Vassal wrote:

Space wrote:

hutch wrote:
Who?

Isn't he an SNL cast member? (Seth Moulton)

this is some funny shit

@realDonaldTrump
The Dow is down 573 points perhaps on the news that Representative Seth Moulton, whoever that may be, has dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race!

Yeah, that is pretty funny actually.

Lol

another GOP rep retires….
GOP Rep. Sean Duffy resigning
although…trump won that district by 21 points…so not likely going to be a flip

Vassal wrote:
another GOP rep retires….
GOP Rep. Sean Duffy resigning
although…trump won that district by 21 points…so not likely going to be a flip

Obama won that district by +8 in 2008, then lost by -3 in 2012. I wonder why the dramatic shift?

Space wrote:

Vassal wrote:
another GOP rep retires….
GOP Rep. Sean Duffy resigning
although…trump won that district by 21 points…so not likely going to be a flip

Obama won that district by +8 in 2008, then lost by -3 in 2012. I wonder why the dramatic shift?

Interesting
my first thought is: 95.6% White
but really doesn't explain the change in two election cycles

are we not going to make note of Joe Walsh's candidacy?  i mean, it isn't going to go anywhere, but we should at least mention it…

Joe Walsh officially confirms 2020 Trump Primary Challenge
The ex-congressman-turned-talk radio host announced on Sunday a long-shot gamble to wrestle the 2020 Republican nomination from Trump.

this headline says all we need to know about his candidacy: "Joe Walsh says he is challenging Trump 'to make the moral case against him'".  newsflash: the GOP has no morals at the moment.

sweetcell wrote:
are we not going to make note of Joe Walsh's candidacy?  i mean, it isn't going to go anywhere, but we should at least mention it…

Joe Walsh officially confirms 2020 Trump Primary Challenge
The ex-congressman-turned-talk radio host announced on Sunday a long-shot gamble to wrestle the 2020 Republican nomination from Trump.

this headline says all we need to know about his candidacy: "Joe Walsh says he is challenging Trump 'to make the moral case against him'".  newsflash: the GOP has no morals at the moment.

God, I hope he doesn't pick that arrogant dick Henley for his VP.

sweetcell wrote:
are we not going to make note of Joe Walsh's candidacy? 

was mentioned appropriately here

I'm making executive orders, my base they can't wait
They create memes to tell me I'm great
So I got me an office with gold piping on the seat
I'll just watch some Fox 'news' or maybe I'll tweet

can someone tell me why at this point that these people have not dropped out

Michael Bennet
Steve Bullock
John Delaney
Tim Ryan
Joe Sestak

metaphorical wrote:
can someone tell me why at this point that these people have not dropped out

Michael Bennet
Steve Bullock
John Delaney
Tim Ryan
Joe Sestak

I'll expand your list to everyone not currently in position to make the third debate. (And I'd probably throw Yang on there too even though he is qualified.)

Julian, wrote:

metaphorical wrote:
can someone tell me why at this point that these people have not dropped out

Michael Bennet
Steve Bullock
John Delaney
Tim Ryan
Joe Sestak

I'll expand your list to everyone not currently in position to make the third debate. (And I'd probably throw Yang on there too even though he is qualified.)

here's that list
Tom Steyer
Tulsi Gabbard
Marianne Williamson
Kirsten Gillibrand
Bill de Blasio

Yang…what are you talking about
With merch like this…


I kinda feel that people are still somewhat interested in those folks
but they could all go away* Wednesday and I wouldn't shed a tear

*from the primary

If I'm being charitable Yang and Gillibrand can stay in. Gillibrand really should be a better candidate but she's clearly pissed off the troglodyte cretin, Franken-loving garbage wing of the party.

Julian, wrote:
Gillibrand can stay in. … Franken-loving wing of the party.

So that's only part of my gripe with her.
It sucks that Franken did some sleazy things, and ultimately we had to take 'better than them' stance on this.  Bitter pill for me to swallow, but I think I'm on board with this now

but he really was one of the most articulate, passionate and true to the dem principals in congress that I can point to.  He took Paul Wellstone's seat and did it as a tribute to one of the most important Dems in our lifetime (that nobody remembers)
Most others can barely put together a sentence on stage, we do need more Dem leaders like him (without the sleaze)  who can really go head to head with the likes of Trump and his ilk.

Now this was 2007…but was definitely her position at the time
membership in the Blue Dog Coalition of conservative Democrats
legislation making English America’s official language and a slew of anti-immigrant things
The Human Rights Campaign, gave her the lowest rating of any NY Democrat in Congress for her positions on gay rights issues.
Her rating from the National Rifle Association, was a solid 100 percent. (TBT..she got an F from the NRA in 2009)

Her attacking Biden for stuff that happened in the 70s was bad form too

She is an important democrat and think she should still be a national player…but drop out of the primary

metaphorical wrote:

Julian, wrote:

metaphorical wrote:
can someone tell me why at this point that these people have not dropped out

Michael Bennet
Steve Bullock
John Delaney
Tim Ryan
Joe Sestak

I'll expand your list to everyone not currently in position to make the third debate. (And I'd probably throw Yang on there too even though he is qualified.)

here's that list
Tom Steyer
Tulsi Gabbard
Marianne Williamson
Kirsten Gillibrand
Bill de Blasio

Yang…what are you talking about
With merch like this…


I kinda feel that people are still somewhat interested in those folks
but they could all go away* Wednesday and I wouldn't shed a tear

*from the primary

I work with a guy named Yang who does math for a living. That shirt looks like a perfect Xmas gift if I was into giving Xmas gifts to my office mates.

Yeah, Yang sucks and is a one trick pony but at least he has a different viewpoint so I'm fine with him staying. It's kind of fun seeing how he can shoehorn his UBI pitch to every question like where he answered a climate question by saying with the $1000/ month you can move to high ground to survive