You’re conflating different concepts. Obviously, I already said they would have preferred he didn’t run. But there’s a difference between thinking he’s too old or otherwise too flawed of a candidate to be the preferred nominee and thinking he’s somebody who’s deteriorating cognitively while seeking the most important…

What does it mean for your vote to “matter”? This is a country of 300 million people and in the neighborhood of 120 million voters. Most of those people vote in noncompetitive districts. That’s what gerrymandering has offered us.

Though I would agree that he’d lost his best shot at the nomination earlier a few years ago, this time around, he’s lost his best argument in favor of his own electability (i.e., the white working class voters he insisted he had a unique rapport with have basically abandoned him now that he’s not running against that…

I’m fascinated by the degree to which the “cognitive decline” and “dementia” narratives are employed by the same people who also peddle the DNC conspiracy narrative. Democratic leaders had the last nine months to try to nudge Biden out of the race if they thought he was in “decline,” and those people know him and see…

It’s officially over. How long will it take for Sanders to acknowledge it? How long should it take Sanders to acknowledge it?

“Viable” in the context I’m using it simply means clearing the objective line of viability and earning delegates in the Iowa caucus. Warren was leading the Iowa polling in November. By late December, she had fallen all the way down to the mid-teens. When the dust-up happened, she was sitting at 14-16 percent. The line…

AOC is unlikely to ever win so much as statewide office. The country will have a woman president, and the Democratic Party will incrementally become more progressive, but unless AOC becomes a more faithful member of the party establishment (more in the mold of Elizabeth Warren or Sherrod Brown than Bernie Sanders),…

It was not a dramatically successful outcome, but at that point in the race, drama wasn’t on offer. She remained viable in IA, and to a certain degree, she may have done significant harm to Sanders with women (all exit polling has indicated that there’s a meaningful gender gap among Sanders supporters). Who’s to say…

Indeed. Weird.

My bad. I misread what you said. I didn’t say that Warren was definitely going to get a surge. I said it was the best play she had to ensuring that she remained viable in Iowa, thereby limiting Sanders’s ability to collect too many of her caucus goers as a second choice. That happened. Good job, me!

She didn’t have a debate confrontation with Sanders. She had one with Biden. And she actually did surge at that point, it was just far too early in the proceedings given that this ended up being a nominating contest in which every candidate not named Biden, Sanders or (oddly) Buttigieg was limited to a maximum of one…

Everything it takes as long as all it takes is creating trending hashtags and memes, eh? But what if it takes...more than that?

It’s not about electability. It’s about who had a greater shot of being nominated by the party: (1) The progressive insurgent who uses party identification solely as a means of getting himself elected to office and who has outward disdain for most of the members of that party, many of whom consciously blame him for…

Anything’s possible. I mean, Bloomberg received more votes than I thought he would, but I tend to think that if Biden had not recovered, Bloomberg’s entry into the race would have more likely brought about the Sanders plurality than anything else. Buttigieg and Klobuchar would have remained in. Warren likely would…

She wasn’t my candidate. I didn’t have a candidate. I don’t vote for another two weeks. I knew full well that it would be a two-person race by then and getting my hopes up over one candidate or another would have been silly.

In actuality, let’s go back on my predictions. I said that Biden was a weak frontrunner whose numbers would tank right before the voting started, opening the door for a viable moderate to take the mantle of party standard-bearer. That happened. The problem was that none of the potentially viable moderates were…

So many words. I’m not trying to get you to like Warren more than you like Sanders. I’m explaining to you that it really doesn’t matter who you like. Choosing Sanders over Warren meant choosing to lose over a few minor policy distinctions over the outside potential of actually winning.

I know it’s all very frustrating for you and probably kind of difficult to comprehend. I’ve been trying to explain it to you all for months, but it’s really very simple: While Sanders polls pretty well in terms of net favorability, the truth is that way too many Democratic primary voters consciously or unconsciously…

You’ll notice that I didn’t say I “believe in” anybody, as we are talking about politicians and I am not 14 years old. Belief is for children. I don’t believe in Joe Biden. I feel as though I have a pretty solid idea of who he is, what he would try to accomplish and what he would be able accomplish. I have a pretty…

Well, Biden may have been a distant fifth or sixth in line among people I believed in six months ago, he’s far out in the lead of those remaining. He’s also far more likely to win, which actually is a perfectly legitimate argument in his favor no matter what supporters of losing candidates want to tell people.