I get that— and I’m hardly excited about a Biden presidency— but if Super Tuesday taught us anything it’s that the promise of Bernie inspiring a wave of supporters to come to polls was a myth. His losses yesterday came partially because young voters were *not* motivated to come out for him. In fact, he did WORSE this…

The Bats and the Furious.

the lack of decorum from the “Bernie Bros” is fucking tragic.

I agree that Bernie would energize more people to go to the polls in November - but a huge number of those mobilized would be on the Republican side.

You socialists will hate to admit this, but last night was a referendum on President Obama, and President Obama won.

but to progressives, the urgent last-minute push to play kingmaker with Joe Biden—yes, this guy, also this, and this! Wow!—was depressing as hell.

Yeah, but isn’t the same true about Bloomberg being a spoiler for Biden? If Bloomberg had dropped out on Sunday instead of today, Biden probably would’ve won by double-digits in those states.

Me too. It pains me how sensible her plans are and how clearly she can articulate them AND YET, the public won’t bother to listen.

My hope now is Biden has enough pull to win over embarrassed conservatives and undecideds.

They stay home and then later they complain about how “the system” is all rigged against them and their preferred candidate by party elites.

I also voted for Warren and will likely switch to Joe if she drops out. One striking thing I heard while watching results last night — 65% of the electorate voting last night was over 45. The young people love Bernie, but they aren’t turning out. If 65% of the electorate had been under 45 Bernie would have won in a…

I think your analysis is spot on and I actually like Joe Biden (but totally understand why others do not). As someone living in MI where Trump won 2016 by a mere 40k votes or something insane - Biden makes so much sense as the national candidate (as did Klobuchar). I’m a big believer in the idea of running the most…

I was so hoping Warren would come back and voted for her yesterday. What a shame. I really hope she gets another shot in the future.

Bernie is obviously not inspiring people to go to the polls, as shown by his lackluster performance versus 2016 in states he won. In 2016, he got 86% of Vermont and this year barely 50%. Colorado 59% in 2016 and 36% this year. Minnesota 62% in 2016 vs 30%. Oklahoma 52% in 2016 vs 25%.

The question is: Which demographic is likely to be willing to accept that they didn’t get their preferred candidate on the ballot, but go out and vote democrat in November nonetheless? The millions of Black American voters who prefer Biden, or the millions of 20-something year olds who prefer Bernie?

Here's the thing, if Bernie’s ability to inspire people to the polls was electorally decisive shouldn't it be carrying him to victory in the primary?

I wish it weren’t Biden, either. But I think the hope over fear binary is a bit silly. Anybody who looks at the remaining list of candidates and isn’t a little bit afraid about any of them being the nominee is being blinded by something, and I’m not sure it’s hope.

I’ve already seen them come out.
However, if Warren is spoiling Bernie’s votes, Bloomberg is most definitely spoiling Biden’s. If you take Warren’s and Bloomberg’s respective votes and allot them accordingly, Biden would have swept all but California I believe.

Wow that was refreshing. Like a cool breeze on an August day.

“...and also appeared to confuse his wife with his sister.”

No. Joe exceeded your expectations.