Given the ages and potential health issues of the two frontrunners, maybe her staying in the race also helps ensure that she’s well-placed to step in if one or both of the leaders can’t continue their campaigns for some reason? We’re in unprecedented territory here, with both those guys being 7 to 8 years older than Reagan was when he first assumed office.
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Saw this go by a little earlier:
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What? We’re they actually expecting great ratings? Everyone knew how the results were going to turn out to be
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What we can learn from this is that you can’t rely on youth support in the primaries, possibly not in the general election either. There are a lot of enthusiastic young people on the internet, but their enthusiasm does not translate into actual votes, which means it’s worthless.
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This is the scary truth. It is much easier to post a vicious internet screed than to go stand in line to cast a vote. I hope this is not a foretaste of the general…
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If young voters can’t be arsed to show up and vote for progressive candidates who they know are looking toward their future, they’re certainly not going to vote for an out-of-touch Dem nominee looking to restore an unsustainable past “normalcy”. As for those who did vote for Sanders, I don’t see them making the same effort for Biden in November. All of which means, there’s an increased probability that we have to prepare for four more years of President Biff (and perhaps the end of liberal democracy in the U.S.).
I’m not ready to give up yet, but this is not a good sign.
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i’d be curious if there are any systemic differences between the last primary and this one. for instance, ca wasn’t part of super tuesday before and sanders spent a lot of his effort there because it had so many delegates
but maybe things like younger voter employment numbers might be involved ( ex. more working so fewer able to vote. it was like 10% in 2016, and 8% now. ) – things like that
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It was Minnesota’s first Super Tuesday…
Minnesota’s first Super Tuesday primary appears to have accomplished what state lawmakers wanted when they ditched presidential caucuses: more voter participation.
With 99.7 percent of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, nearly 885,000 Minnesotans cast ballots in Tuesday’s presidential primary. In 2016, just 318,000 people participated in caucuses statewide.
Caucuses had long been criticized as being more appealing to party insiders rather than the typical voter. Long lines and slow results also frustrated participants in 2016.
By eliminating them for picking presidential contenders, Minnesota lawmakers said they were encouraging more voters to participate.
A Minnesota presidential primary has been held four times: 1916, 1952, 1956 and 1992. The state of Minnesota normally holds presidential caucuses instead. On May 22, 2016 Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signed a bill that will reinstate a presidential primary starting in 2020[1].
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/Satire
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Thread:
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Wait he’s supporting a Bloomberg candidacy victory now?
Christ - what an asshole.
Warren deserves praise for destroying the Bloomberg candidacy.
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Well certain stans are.
That’s Gannon’s point: there is a class of supporters that cannot accept that their great leader failed to inspire. It must be someone else’s fault. And he’s right… it’s too close to MAGAism and alternate facts for comfort.
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A twist on the old “conservatism can not fail - it can only be failed!”.
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Yup. ACA+Public Option is just like * Medicare For All.
For certain imaginary values of “just like.”
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Seems like at least some of the health industry’s stock growth can be attributed to the global disease pandemic we’re experiencing right now.
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Was the pandemic non-existent last week?
https://www.investors.com/news/unitedhealth-stock-healthcare-stocks-fall-bernie-sander-coronavirus/
Health insurers don’t make their money by providing healthcare; their profits are based in denying healthcare.
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Don’t forget raising the cost of care. 
That goes hand-in-hand with denying care because it’s too expensive.
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