Your complete lack of understanding of American politics is profoundly baffling, to be honest.  It runs all up and down this comment section.

“wow, obama likes biden, huh? that’ll be super helpful in winning the democratic vote, which famously allowed clinton to win in 2016.”

This is...basically not at all how 2016 went down.

Obama was largely sidelined in 2016 and Hilary had so much baggage that there are honest-to-god Obama-Trump voters.

I know this is hard…

Yes, exactly.  Democratic messaging is a shitshow.  They don’t how to do it.  They operate from a position of “if you don’t think this way there’s something wrong with you” and make NO EFFORT to bring people into the fold that might vote for them if only they could message in such a way that doesn’t make them feel…

“Republicans scream socialism about everything.”

AND IT WORKS.

That’s what I’m trying to get across: It. Works. Every. Time.

The GOP for 2 straight decades has taken local and state elections from extremely winnable Dem districts by running the same damn playbook every time, and EVERY TIME the Democrats play right into…

Bingo.

It’s a lesson a lot of liberals and leftists don’t want to learn, because they want to believe the country as a whole is more progressive than it is.

I’m about as progressive as Bernie, but I understand that I am not the majority, and the only way to make headway is to first bring the whole damn system back from…

You’re being disingenuous. The data is there. And the reason it doesn’t work with Bernie as the face is because he is unwilling to make any compromises about the political language he uses.

All the GOP has to do is cry “Socialism” and the undecideds out there cut bait, because they run it to the absurd extreme.

I’m…

Exactly.

Progressives voters, especially younger ones (of which I am one) are TERRIBLE about understanding what actually affects change. The presidency is fools gold if you don’t have congress.

You have to shape the legislative landscape first.  Nothing happens without that.

By “wunderkind” I very much mean a Political wunderkind. Bernie was not that. He EMPHATICALLY was not that. He lacked any ability to build a coalition of any kind and showed no inclination that he even wanted to do it, even bragging that he didn’t need one and his base voters would carry him, which was an insane…

This is the best post on Jezebel right now.  100 percent spot-on.

No one cares about having the respect of an internet edge-lord. Hope this helps.

It is, but national polls are worthless in presidential elections.

Only state polls matter because we don’t elect via popular vote.

You don’t understand how polls work and are perpetuating bad use of polling to your audience.

The problem is that right now it’s a rock-and-a-hard place proposition. The fact is that policy positions like those held by Bernie scare the shit out of middle-America. I know people don’t like hearing this, but Bernie had no shot at the swing states that are most important for winning the election. There are a ton…

This is an EXTREMELY important point. The lack of knowledge among people in both my own generation and GenZ about how the American political process works is alarming, and it’s how you end up with people spouting things like the primaries being “rigged” while simultaneously not showing up to vote in them.

There’s a…

I never thought Hilary was electable. As a candidate, she was the worst possible choice from a political standpoint. The country doesn’t like her, and her campaign slept on some states they thought they had in the bag that it turns out they didn’t. It was a horribly-run campaign that did almost everything wrong. A…

When the opposition only has to say “SOCIALISM” and the entire center jumps to the right, not having a pin=down point is important.

Trump’s “Policies” fit on a red baseball cap. All vague, generalizations that boiled down to “I will make the scary people/leeches go away”.

That’s not really policy, that’s dog-whistling.

B…

“But Sanders was the favorite among voters 45 and younger of every race”

But here’s the problem: THEY DON’T (AND DIDN’T) VOTE

Until my generation and the one below it (GenZ) actually start showing up to the polls, we do not matter in the slightest. For all the ruckus we made about Bernie, when it actually came time to…

Here’s the thing:

It’s good that you can’t.

The cold, hard truth of American politics is that the SECOND you can pin down an opponent’s policy position, you can frame it and fire away, and those centrist voters that you absolutely must win are easily spooked.

That’s why the GOP is so much better at national elections…

Here’s the problem:

Basically the first week of AC has very little to do because your town basics have not been set up yet. You need to get the museum rolling, essentially, for the game to really open up and allow multiple different kinds of free-form options and goals. Until that happens, your very limited in terms of…

The problem is this event is too soon after launch. I’m watching in real-time as people I know who didn’t buy at launch are basically putting it down because they can’t make museum progress at a reasonable rate to even get all their basic things set up.

That’s a bad design choice.