Just wanted to get a feel for the mood on Bigsoccer before the first debate. I left the poll open for 6 months, and then maybe I'll do another one right before Iowa. You can change your vote if your candidate drops out or you change your mind.
No clue, either way. So many choices. That's going to make things kind of weird. I liked Bernie last cycle, but he's pretty old as is Biden. They're both likeable, though. But basically I am a social democrat. However, I am also an advocate for free peaceful speech, regardless of how much I may disagree with it.
Who you want ... Although at this early stage I'm hoping that people still believe in the chances of their preferred candidate regardless. If Trump has proven one thing is that anything is possible.
I have chosen Elizabeth Warren to win, although I will probably not vote for her in the primaries. TBH I'll vote for any of them. Maaaaybe not the anti-vaxxer.
I haven't decided yet, but I like Booker, Bernie, Beto, and Warren best right now. Yang and Buttgieg also intrigue me, but really it's anyone but Biden at the moment. Williamson is also an anti-vaxxer idiot so anyone but her too, but she has no chance.
I am between Booker and Warren. I picked Booker but I may have to vote Warren, Booker will probably drop off by the time Illinois votes, if Warren is still in the ballot, it means she is doing well enough to win. If not, anyone but Sanders or Biden, even the crazy congresswoman from Hawaii.
Have a difficult time trusting Warren, she was a Republican for a good while and just recently joined the "progressive" wave. Agreeing to do that DNA test was so dumb and naive, can't see her doing well in a shitshow against Trump. This was the worst though
Her heart is in the right place. We have to remember that she's not a career politician. She really did get into this with the idea of making change in the aftermath of the 2008 crash. What she lacks though is political instincts. And having poor political instincts should make one wonder how good her executive instincts would be with so much power.
I don't watch debates. It's better to get a thumbnail sketch of what was said the day after. I don't really care who gets the Democratic nomination since I'd vote for a club sandwich over Donald Trump. I do wish the founding fathers had put an age restriction on running for public office for Congressional and Presidential candidates. There are minimum age requirements, but no maximum ones. Too bad people over 65 are allowed to run for President (and I'm saying this as a 60-year old).
I've been leaning Warren, but reserve the right to change my mind. Caught about 5 minutes of the debate last night during the halftime of the US-Panama game, and the only insight I gained is that apparently my vagina would like me to vote for Booker.
It's Politico, so... But it is a bit interesting https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/27/elizabeth-warren-debate-landmine-227241 On several occasions in Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, the NBC moderators invited candidates to take a shot at Senator Elizabeth Warren, and neither of her fellow senators, Amy Klobuchar or Cory Booker, took the bait. But one candidate may have planted a land mine under her candidacy—and she wasn't even his target. The moment came when the 10 participants were asked, by a show of hands, who would dispense entirely with private health insurance. Only New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Warren signaled “yes.” That's when former Rep. John Delaney, one of the least visible of the 24 announced candidates, weighed in. After pushing back on the idea of taking something away from Americans that most are reasonably happy with, Delaney said this: “Also it’s bad policy. If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is how would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at the Medicare rate? Every single hospital administrator said they would close. And the Medicare for All bill requires payments to stay at current Medicare rates. So to some extent we’re basically supporting a bill that will have every hospital closed.” And then he finished with a stinger about his electrician father on union health insurance: “He’d look at me, and he’d say ‘Good job, John, for getting health care for every American, but why are you taking my health care away?’” The main point: Given how "Medicare for all" is resonating with the Democratic party's base, this basically gave a weapon to Republicans for ads and talking points once the 2020 campaign is going on. Their are precedents, says the article: The seeds for the Willie Horton ad that helped sink Dukakis was planted in a primary debate. By Al Gore. So, the article concludes... And a year from now—an eternity in campaign time, but not too long to keep the issue warm in a big oppo file—it wouldn’t be hard at all for Donald Trump, on Twitter and in ads and on a debate stage, to point out that a member of Warren’s own party, sharing the same stage, implied that her health care ideas would be dangerous for America. (The same applies in spades for self-identified socialist Sanders.) Republicans have spent most of the past 100 years leveling Democratic social programs as “socialist” or “dangerous." As a general proposition, those attacks have fallen on barren ground. But in suggesting that a major plank of two potential nominees could wreak havoc on the system, John Delaney may have left a ticking time bomb on his party’s hopes for the White House.