6th January 2019, 9:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 8th January 2019, 10:19 PM by A Black Falcon.)
So, which Democrat should be our nominee for 2020 to run against Trump? There are good reasons to support almost any of the top seven or eight candidates for sure, or more... and reasons to not support each of them. So it's going to be tough to decide.
- Biden: The positive is that he's well known, popular, and will run straight for the group that won Trump the election, middle-class people in Pennsylvania and the Midwest. The negative is that he is moderate, old, and has a lot of baggage (Anita Hill hearing, crime bill, all those photo ops with women, etc).
- Beto: The positive is that he's got the most momentum right now, probably, and clearly is a good speaker able to inspire people. The negatives are that he just lost a major race and is also pretty moderate.
- Senators running for President -- Harris would be a great president, and I might vote for her in the primaries, but a half black-half Indian woman versus Trump, would we win? Booker would also be good, but I don't know if he'll get out of the primaries. As for Bernie and Warren, it would be amazing if America would elect a clearly liberal president, but Bernie is also pretty old and has some baggage from the 2016 campaign (and I didn't support him then), and Warren... I just don't think she can win either. The whole claiming-native-american-ancestry thing is kind of weird, she's probably only a pretty low percent native.
The big fight in the Democratic primaries is likely to be left versus center -- do we go with someone farther left, like Warren or Bernie, or someone more in the center? Should we nominate another white man, or a woman and/or minority? How much should expectations about how someone will do against Trump matter in the primaries? After all, you never know how things are going to go in an election, anyone could win (or lose) really.
Like, I think Biden would probably win by the most in the general election, but I don't know if he'll get through the primaries, and right now I'm not thinking of him as my top pick, as much as I have thought positively of him. I mentioned some of his drawbacks earlier, but he is definitely getting old, and we've got some great younger candidates. But really right now I don't know who I'd vote for, if/when it's still competitive by the time we have a primary here.
- Biden: The positive is that he's well known, popular, and will run straight for the group that won Trump the election, middle-class people in Pennsylvania and the Midwest. The negative is that he is moderate, old, and has a lot of baggage (Anita Hill hearing, crime bill, all those photo ops with women, etc).
- Beto: The positive is that he's got the most momentum right now, probably, and clearly is a good speaker able to inspire people. The negatives are that he just lost a major race and is also pretty moderate.
- Senators running for President -- Harris would be a great president, and I might vote for her in the primaries, but a half black-half Indian woman versus Trump, would we win? Booker would also be good, but I don't know if he'll get out of the primaries. As for Bernie and Warren, it would be amazing if America would elect a clearly liberal president, but Bernie is also pretty old and has some baggage from the 2016 campaign (and I didn't support him then), and Warren... I just don't think she can win either. The whole claiming-native-american-ancestry thing is kind of weird, she's probably only a pretty low percent native.
The big fight in the Democratic primaries is likely to be left versus center -- do we go with someone farther left, like Warren or Bernie, or someone more in the center? Should we nominate another white man, or a woman and/or minority? How much should expectations about how someone will do against Trump matter in the primaries? After all, you never know how things are going to go in an election, anyone could win (or lose) really.
Like, I think Biden would probably win by the most in the general election, but I don't know if he'll get through the primaries, and right now I'm not thinking of him as my top pick, as much as I have thought positively of him. I mentioned some of his drawbacks earlier, but he is definitely getting old, and we've got some great younger candidates. But really right now I don't know who I'd vote for, if/when it's still competitive by the time we have a primary here.