You’re right, and while i dont think threatening to hold out looks good, I dont have isssue with those, I want a good debate. I’ve been talking about the demand for a new debate. And the reason people might equate this to Trump is just because of the timing. Trump doing it was the first thing I thought of because it…

But he’s not talking about what to do with extra time, cross talk or the like, he’s asking for another debate. That’s not the logistics of dealing with an O’Malley-shaped hole in the initial, agreed upon debate, that’s asking for something beyond what they agreed to. It’s unrelated to O’Malley, that would be a reason…

I’m so with you. I actually said last night to my wife “I can’t wait to see Jezebel in the morning “ because silly me, I thought it would be treated, oh I don’t know, as historic. I would like to think that as Democrats we could take a moment to appreciate the moment, but no. I got into it with a Bernie supporter…

“The inside word is, the hipsters let Sanders pass, but I doubt the wolves of Wallstreet will be so kind. Stay tuned, boppers.”

Queens would seem like a compromise, not hipster heaven Brooklyn, which will favor him, or Manhattan which will favor her. But also, people are acting like she said no, she hasn’t. These are negotiations, he’s asking for something she just may be countering

It’s supposed to be *that he wanted a buffer. Apologies, I’m on my phone

Well it is strategic, do you think it was random? And he doesn’t want to go with O’Malley thing too much, some will take it as he doesn’t want to be alone with her, thsg he wanted a buffer

A lot of politicians aren’t from where they represent, Bernie is from New York, reps Vermont. Vice President Biden is from Scranton, repped Delaware, once you live there and become extremely popular there, it becomes your backyard. The last poll had her up 40 points in the state of New York, that seems like her…

Not really, they didn’t have any in NY in 2008 at all, I believe. And Brooklyn isn’t just his town, it’s the center of his hipster demographic

I’m thinking we do it like The Warriors. Drop them both of in the Bronx and the first to Coney Island alive wins.

Exactly. This feels to me like he’s trying to make a strategic adjustment and, not surprising, she doesn’t want to help his campaign out. This is why good strategic planning is critical; he probably could have gotten it if he included it in the debate negotiations.

Ted Cruz is Canadian, that doesn’t make it his backyard. Bernie was born there but she has very high favorability there, Qunnipiac has her up 40 in NY. I don’t think it’s been considered his backyard in a long time. Brooklyn is one of the few areas he’d be more popular. They were specific about Brooklyn for a reason.

I doubt she thinks that, she does well in debates. This isnt about NY, it’s about Brooklyn. He knows he’ll get big turnout in that specific area, in her backyard

That strategy worked great for Trump in Iowa. Look I know it’s not the samething or for the same reasons, and obviously I get why he wants Brooklyn. Hey look, (hipsters in) her Senate state loves me! But it’ll still play like he agreed and then made demands and pulled out when they weren’t met. He needed to get…

He is still thinking Republicans go by whose turn it is. He wants what his father got, what Dole got, what McCain got. He wanted them to follow their old, outdated, unwritten rules. BUT TRUMP DON’T CARE ‘BOUT NO RULES. I agree Jeb! is less crazy than the rest of the group except maybe for Kasich, I also just think the…

I have done, and still do, more than my share of data research and analysis professionally, unless for fun I haven’t done that for free in a long time. So unless they’re going to pay me for my time, yeah I’m out

It really is astonishing. Carson may sound barely awake but Jeb! just seems to want it less than any candidate I can remember. I think that really comes across, it’s hard to get excited for someone who isn’t excited themselves. His donors have to feel so cheated, how wonder how many checks are getting stopped today. I…

That’s why I said I wonder if he thought his machine would be put together for him like was done for his brother, who did just wake up one day and get convinced to run. It truly is astonishing, Jeb! should have had an even better machine than Clinton. It’s true he was never going to be the choice of Evangelicals and…

He should have had such a machine in place, with precinct captains in place, endorsements essentially lined up, preparations for the inevitable attacks from the far right, since he was always going to get hit from there. I don’t know if he saw how little his brother had to do on his own for his campaign and just…

He was never going to be that popular with Evangelicals (like father like son) but moderates, the business community, they wanted a no-brainer choice(which arguably they got, in a different way). Look at how much he raised out of the gate, if he had projected strength and confidence he could have been locking…