As I said before, winning in the primary has nothing to do with winning in the general. Biden won in the general by outlasting all but two other candidates. You can choose to believe or disbelieve the reporting on this subject, but that’s what happened. The Sanders attack ads are the same as the attack ads that they…

All the polling stated otherwise. How do you figure he’d get smoked? Were we not in the midst of a pandemic we’d be heading towards Biden getting stomped. As it is, we have a small chance.

“There’s a big difference between the Republicans calling some Democrat a Socialist and the Democratic Socialist calling himself a Democratic Socialist.” There is no difference in the republican attack adds. Knowing what we know about Biden and his lack of policy or strategy, what evidence do you see that Biden…

I really don’t think we’d know that Sanders would lose or lose “bigly”, it’s all up in the air with the pandemic. I think we’ve seen from the responses of both Joe and Bern to the crisis that Bernie is actually showing leadership.

As I said before, they already started calling Biden a socialist, they called Obama a socialist and he was a center right democrat. So it really doesn’t matter that Sanders incorrectly described himself as a democratic socialist. Sanders also had a lot of support in the rust belt. The African Americans are the Democrat…

You really think that Trumpists and Conservative media would prefer to have Sanders as the nominee? I live in Trump country and all of them have been salivating at the idea of going up against Biden. Conservative media has had the Biden stuff queued up for months with Barisma and Hunter. They call Biden a Socialist…

One, you have to believe that Obama’s team missed this when vetting Biden for VP in 2007.

Your distinction still doesn’t help your point, in the general election you want as many votes in swing states as possible. I am of the belief that the candidate should not write off any votes. You described Trump as an existential threat, I agree. Try to get as many votes as you can Joe! That’s just how I think of…

I’ve been consistent throughout. You can go back and read our exchange from the beginning. I’m not sure what arguments you’ve even made. I agree that Biden would never draft Tlaib as his VP, she is consistent in her morals where Biden is not. I agree that there are some voters who would be upset if she joined his…

Still moving around those goalposts? I’m not sure how I’m bargaining at all. Again, my original idea was not Biden to try to adopt any policy. It was to try to bring an important figure in the movement onto his ticket. If you want to debate the best way for Biden to form a coalition that stands a chance of beating the…

You’re moving the goalposts dude. I think we all know that it was not a matter of people preferring Biden over Sanders. There was no grand conspiracy, but the DNC saw Sanders’ landslide victory in Nevada, they got spooked and they convinced Buttigieg and Klobuchar to drop out, they brought O’rourke out of mothballs.…

They’ve got the broadest coalition currently with the exception of age demographics. Their biggest weakness is that they’re not as organized as they need to be.

I’m not sure how I’m embarrassing myself. I don’t think that Biden can ignore 1/3 of the democratic base, in my opinion the easiest way to do that would be to bring a prominent leftist onto the ticket. Omar is an unconstitutional choice and AOC is too young. Would you prefer Jayapal? Khanna? Do you have a better idea…

Biden has a lot of work to do to get Sander’s supporters to back him. If Biden selected Tlaib as his VP choice, that would get progressives to back him. Sanders was too nice for his own good, but history has already shown that he was right on all the policy merits. The thing that I’m most curious about is what’s going…

I’ve seen similar levels of vitriol and dogmatism in Clinton or Warren people too. The K-Hive is also pretty militant. I’m not sure any emperor is wearing clothes.

I’m not sure what you mean by dealing with reality? As a centrist who lives in Trump country I get a daily dose of reality. It is accurate that Sanders tends to do better in caucuses, but that doesn’t address his overwhelming support amongst Latinos. I’m not sure how Sanders has dismissed and insulted southern black…

I’m not sure how it’s an insult... I’m am sure that you’re mischaracterizing how legislating works. He managed to get the violence against women into the otherwise dreadful crime bill.

I just read this post and realized that you’re a troll instead of acting in good faith! By bad for my sincerity earlier. Your argument about Sanders not being intersectional leaves out that he won by a landslide in NV due to his overwhelming support amongst Latino voters. There is no question that he could have done…

Warren and Sanders have been tied together for about 20 years. Sanders has gotten plenty done. He’s got a long history of bipartisan law making. He didn’t earn the title of “Amendment King” for nothing!

Okay, but Warren and Sanders are too, but you found them to be unacceptable. I guess I don’t understand the distinction.