Biden supported the Hyde amendment until like last year.

You are pulling that Sanders quote grossly oit of context https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/29/410606045/the-bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy-essay-explained

See, now Gabbard, for all her flaws, would definitely win a push up contest.

The convenience of birth control is a bigger deal than anyone really notices. For about five years of my youth I was too broke to have insurance and well below the poverty line, and Planned Parenthood not only gave me FREE checkup and pills, but would give me the entire year’s worth all at once, so I never had to go…

I don’t think that current Joe Biden would utter the words “universal birth control” and I do not expect him to come out in support of abortion without qualifications. Is whatever he’s planning for better than Trump? Sure. We might be able to sustain ourselves on that a bit longer but it will continue to be a barrier…

It is a real lost opportunity for the Democrats as Trump is terrified of strong, smart women. Look how easily Merkel put him in his place. I pray Sanders does win because Biden has many of the same personality flaws as Trump, and I am not looking forward to this election being decided by a pushup contest. 

Democrats seem to be hung up on an outdated definition of “electable” that, if still true, would have meant Hillary vs Jeb in 2016. Warren is infinitely competent, but that doesn’t win a general. The most actually electable candidate in this primary probably would have been somewhere between Gabbard and Williamson,…

Remember Obama’s Louis Gates incident? There were liberal voters (sic) calling the prez “just another complaining black man”.

Yeah, in retrospect, one of the things that the Sanders and Warren campaigns really should have hammered home, relentlessly and even before the campaigns officially started, is that we need to be less afraid of Donald Trump, and more afraid of Mitch McConnell.

Except that Biden is a far weaker and riskier candidate in the general.

I assumed you meant Grimes and Musk.

Is it though? I mean the reason Obama and Trump won is because some people voted for both of them. Those types don’t catch me as middle of the road types. I’d be willing to bet that they voted for Obama and Trump 1st time around because they were against the grain and the 2nd time around - for Obama at least - because…

This got very little publicity: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/29/step-away-fascism-and-toward-brighter-more-just-future-100-black-writers-and

It seems to me that the folks in the middle are more motivated by fear of 4 more years than they are about actually making things better. They have convinced themselves, or been convinced by the oligarchy, that Sanders simply can’t win, all evidence to the contrary be damned.  I can understand where they are coming…

My mom regards AOC as some rebellious, mouthy teenager who “needs a spanking for all that back talk she’s made on Pelosi,” and I’m like she’s an adult woman, representing her convictions and constituents. She’s no different than the men who serve in Congress. My mom’s opinion is similar to her parenting style:…

Is this surprising? Older voters tend to have a much larger buy-in/investment into the status quo than younger voters who have yet to do that investment and thus have less to lose by gambling on big change. This is true of nearly every generation that has ever lived.

Is this the same generation of blacks that was down for the War on Drugs? Elected Bill Clinton because he could play the saxophone? Thinking like a man? Still ain’t down with that gay shit? Keeping Tyler Perry on top?

My grandmother was worried I would turn out to be gay because, like, my mom let me wear a beret or something when I was 4. My dad was convinced Trump couldn’t win, no matter how hard I tried to explain it to him, and has been surprised that some of his white friends turned out to be shitty ass Trumpsters. A bunch of…

I think when anyone wants to deify a group of people, it just shows that they actually don’t have much exposure to them. The more you’re around people of all types the more you see them as just... people.

There seems to be an idea that older voters in general hold that the candidate who appears to be in the exact middle of all the candidates on both sides is by default the best candidate. I have had any number of older relatives and acquaintances happily identify Biden as that candidate to me. “He’s right in the…