I mean when you call a plan “Medicare for All” but it isn’t actually Medicare you just want to use the brand it kind of lends itself to others doing the same with your plan.

Ehhh he said go to the text sign up. 

Biden will be the front runner by double digits (though smaller) by the September debates, the only person who is consistently moving up is Warren and it will take a bit longer for her to consistently get into the mid 20s.

Biden had a bigger lead entering this debate than he did entering the last one, and he was better in this debate than the last one- the big issue is that no one is rising other than Warren.

Biden’s slowly working himself back into political shape like an NBA vet waiting for the playoffs.

Borrowed Warren’s face cream? I don’t mean that as a cheap shot but there’s 4 70 year olds running for President let’s not pretend any of them (or the younger people to be honest) are going put there without products.

Biden has support, it’s underrepresented online but he’s back to double the polling numbers of the next closest person; the other two both have that cult support that Williamson had last night (when she kept getting big crowd pop)

I'll (begrudgingly) give it to her, Harris opened herself up with that attack on the Crime Bill, Tulsi was just the person quick enough to hit her on it. 

This. Now OTOH, I could see Kobach putting the Senate seat in play-- he’s Roy Moore toxic. 

Booker can emote on race-- hell, the story about his family suffering housing discrimination despite being rich is part of his standard stump speech. 

Ugh. You’re right, sorry little sleep.

This. (Though you might have an issue if you wanted to argue that Steve King is just as much a NYC-area Rep as AOC).

Not to mention-- beyond agriculutural subsidies- basic infrastructure in some rural places is almost entirely welfare/socialism-- there’s just not a strong capitalist case/RoI on building say rural broadband or hell even postal service in some places but the government does it anyway because it has a duty to serve all…

I mean the statements are both hugely problematic and slightly true though— John Lewis is no more representative of Georgia as a whole than Peter King is of New York or Devin Nunes is of California.

That’s some revisionist history bullshit. The South quite clearly seceded because of slavery-- read the South Carolina, Georgia or Mississippi declarations of secession.  

Fingers crossed this dipshit conman is able to ride his whackadoodle base to the Senate nomination putting the seat in play for Democrats.

It depends a lot on the state in question-- in New York-- yeah they should be afraid. In redder states they literally get points for dunking on feminist orgs which makes it a bit harder to advocate a more militant line, or at least to do so expecting results. 

That’s systemic savings- not necessarily savings that will be seen by the average person on the whole. 

This and the sad fact that on policy prioritization Unions have been asked to take a back seat for a while now be it on environment, trade, education or immigration-- it’s almost always “oh, sure this hurts you guys a little but look at the help to the wider progressive movement” 

It is, but OTOH for Unions have been asked to take a back seat for Democrats in terms of prioritization for decades (on trade, the environment, in some cases education, immigration, etc) so you can see why there’d be some significant push back.