Not just the next 8 months... how is he going to be in front of rapid firing journalist questions... how is he going to debate or negotiate with friendly or hostile foreign nationals... how is he going to quell angry union workers in an auto plant... slap them? yell at them? rage incoherently?

2008 had a pretty big age gap but I think what made the difference in 08 was the fact that Obama had the African American voting bloc backing him which helped him win the nomination. 

Yes in 08 older voters backed Hillary over Obama by a relatively large margin albeit not by this massive of one

Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fella.

I say this, while doing as little research as you did delving into this subject. Most definitely yes. I can’t imagine in our history, there wasn’t one other time two candidates differentiated themselves In a state by relation to age blocks.

Except party leaders couldn’t “quash his campaign before he announced,” and in any event, before he announced his cognitive decline may not have been apparent. But it was clear that many were concerned about it. It isn’t just some new Bernie Bro thing. 

I’d say there’s actually something even more fundamental, albeit tied in to “righting the ship”: breaking the Republican hammerlock on the Senate. If I’d had my druthers, and been Emperor of the World for a day, the first through sixth thing I’d have done in that day would be to 1) abolish the filibuster in the US…

You can right the ship with sweeping policy changes. FDR did it.

Bringing us to the status quo ante doesn’t solve anything if it’s the status quo ante that brought us Trump to begin with. This righting the ship narrative only works if you think Trump is a fluke and not a symptom.

Down-ballot races are just as important, and in some ways more important, than the presidential vote, and they are places where your vote carries much more weight. Republicans won big in 2010-16 by running for everything down to local dog catcher, and wrapped up dozens of state governments as a result. 

To be fair, it looks like there are something like 40 million more people in the 50+ age bracket than in the 18-49 age bracket in America (https://www.marketingcharts.com/featured-30401).

Sadly, debating and speaking in front of crowds are not insignificant components of the job.

Yo, anybody remember the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”? Your health is only as secure as the least-cared-for member of your society.  

People will like get “Eid Mubarak” yard signs for the benefit of neighbors that they’re afraid to talk to. 

I moved to MN a few years ago, and it was really an adjustment. It’s both so much more and less progressive than anywhere else I’ve lived. People will like get “Eid Mubarak” yard signs for the benefit of neighbors that they’re afraid to talk to.

I really struggle to see the logic of the people who knitted pussy hats and are now fine with Biden. Saying “grab ‘em by the pussy” is an outrage, but physically grabbing them everywhere else is fine.

Sometimes I think there are a lot of Minnesotans who would be out atheists if it wouldn’t kill their grandma. I could be wrong, but in the North we are pretty utilitarian folk. 

“unintentionally erasing voters who are less motivated by revolutions or big structural change.” I think the voters are just erased by circumstances of life. I’m pretty good with big structural change and our household has been donating to Warren weekly for months. But I’m in my late 30s, college educated, suburban…

Yeah, the Pete thing was weird. If I was like “He’s a thoroughly milquetoast candidate who I guess I’d vote for in the general, but see absolutely no reason to vote for in the primary” people were like “HE’S GROUNDBREAKING!” but if I was like “Hey, it’s still homophobia if you call him a ‘pussy-ass cocksucker’”…

I think if you endorse someone and they don’t get the nod then you just pivot to ‘vote ffs and vote Democrat’