who ya got?

[MICHHAWK]

You don’t have to have a political career to be in the stink.

[Shirley]

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[twocoach]

Obama hadn't even served a full term as Senator. Inexperienced is a strength these days in terms of winning the election.

I think Pete has the best chance of beating Trump.

Every serious Dem has a good chance of beating Trump. Time to focus on which of them has the best chance to fix the mess made by the toddlers currently residing in the WH.

[Mjl]

Obama hadn't even served a full term as Senator. Inexperienced is a strength these days in terms of winning the election.

I think Pete has the best chance of beating Trump.

Why do you think Mayor Pete has the best chance of beating Trump?

Biden can't finish a thought anymore; he isn't sharp. And he doesn't drive passion.
Warren is too far left for many to vote for, even if they hate Trump.
Harris is too abrasive to folks in the midwest swing states.
I don't think the others inspire people to vote for them enough to get the necessary turnout.

Pete will get passion from the LGBTQ crowd and a lot of respect for his military service - and his staff will be better-prepared for getting swift-boated now they know the Republicans are willing to attack the patriotism of a veteran running against someone that didn't serve.

He's charismatic enough, good looking, well-spoken, and relatable. Being unqualified isn't really important anymore.

[Deleted User 266]

Well, Pete has to get the nomination first. I'm not too sure a guy who is polling under 10% in every major poll right now has a chance. When Sanders drops out that will help him a lot. Next hope for the Pete heads is that Biden drops out - but it seems the Dems believe Biden has the best shot to beat Trump so if he stays in the race Pete is probably in trouble. If Bernie and Joe do drop out and it comes down to Warren and Harris as the front runners, I am wondering if Pete can leapfrog them. Maybe. I figure people will jump on the O'Rourke and Booker trains if they have a problem with a woman or a gay man.

You say Pete will get passion from the LGBTQ crowd. I agree. The problem is he has to beat Trump and true or not, I believe the majority of the people who were Trump supporters in the past - are going to have a difficult time voting for gay President.
We need someone who can and will get a nice chunk of the people who voted for Donald in 2016 to vote Democratic in 2020. Or at least get someone who can and will win the "swing" states and carry a few Donald carried in 2016. Can it be done? Sure. Hopefully.
His military service is a huge bonus but Trump supporters had little problem with Trump's lack of military service. I agree he is charismatic, good looking (at least young looking and has a nice appearance), well spoken, but I am not too sure just how relatable he is to the majority of the country - that votes Republican.

I like mayor Pete. I like him a lot. Will I vote for him in the primary? As of this moment, I don't know who I am going to vote for in the primary but I am not ruling him out - at least not yet.

[Shirley]

That's a good summary, gutter.

An interesting chart:

[twocoach]

Well, Pete has to get the nomination first. I'm not too sure a guy who is polling under 10% in every major poll right now has a chance. When Sanders drops out that will help him a lot. Next hope for the Pete heads is that Biden drops out - but it seems the Dems believe Biden has the best shot to beat Trump so if he stays in the race Pete is probably in trouble. If Bernie and Joe do drop out and it comes down to Warren and Harris as the front runners, I am wondering if Pete can leapfrog them. Maybe. I figure people will jump on the O'Rourke and Booker trains if they have a problem with a woman or a gay man.

You say Pete will get passion from the LGBTQ crowd. I agree. The problem is he has to beat Trump and true or not, I believe the majority of the people who were Trump supporters in the past - are going to have a difficult time voting for gay President.
We need someone who can and will get a nice chunk of the people who voted for Donald in 2016 to vote Democratic in 2020. Or at least get someone who can and will win the "swing" states and carry a few Donald carried in 2016. Can it be done? Sure. Hopefully.
His military service is a huge bonus but Trump supporters had little problem with Trump's lack of military service. I agree he is charismatic, good looking (at least young looking and has a nice appearance), well spoken, but I am not too sure just how relatable he is to the majority of the country - that votes Republican.

I like mayor Pete. I like him a lot. Will I vote for him in the primary? As of this moment, I don't know who I am going to vote for in the primary but I am not ruling him out - at least not yet.

My primary is so far away still. I'd bet less than half the contenders are still running by that time.

[Shirley]

As Biden continues to falter, watch Michael Bloomberg.

[Deleted User 266]

This morning I have been seeing/reading that he's considering running.
So.....
A 78 (will be 78 in 2020) year old wealthy Jew who is from New York is the best chance to beat a 74 (will be in 2020) year old wealthy Presbyterian from New York?
I wouldn't doubt it. Still seems a bit crazy to me.

[Shirley]

The transformation of Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren hadn’t stepped foot on the University of Houston Law Center campus in nearly 15 years, not since she’d left her first full-time teaching job there.

But on a mid-September morning in 1997, Warren, by then a celebrated professor at Harvard Law School, returned to memorialize a man who had played a small but not insignificant role in her teaching career...

Now she had been asked to eulogize longtime UH law professor Eugene Smith, who, as head of the faculty hiring committee in 1978, had been an early Warren champion, urging colleagues to look past her limited teaching experience and what some perceived as her second-rate Rutgers Law School degree.

Smith, who died of complications from the polio he contracted as a child, had specifically requested that Warren speak at his funeral. But what she said inside a small campus chapel stunned her former colleagues.

With a smile on her face and humor in her voice, Warren described how Smith had invited her to his office one day just a few months after she had been hired. He shut the door and lunged for her, she said, and as she protested, he chased her around his desk before she was able to escape out the door.

“Everyone was slack-jawed,” recalled John Mixon, a retired UH professor who had been close friends with Smith and Warren. Among those listening: Smith’s ex-wife and his three adult sons...

“To have this image of him chasing her around the desk, it was just comical, and she told the story without rancor,” Mixon recalled.

Her account wasn’t entirely new to him. While Warren had not shared all the specifics, she had gone to Mixon looking for help when she said Smith came on to her that day in early 1979.

Four decades later, Mixon recalls with mixed feelings what he told her: Say nothing. “My advice was that she was brand new in the business,” Mixon said. “He was an established old-guard professor with a lot of power. And if she tried to get him, she would be the one in the long term to suffer because she would become known as a troublemaker.”

Warren nodded, and as he advised, she said nothing. Not when Smith continued to flirt with her. Not when he commented on her appearance. Not when she packed up her office in the spring of 1983 to move on to bigger and more renowned schools...

[Mjl]

Biden, yeesh.

[Shirley]

Biden, yeesh.

I just can't do commercials, so I'm > 30 minutes behind.

[Mjl]

Biden, yeesh.

I just can't do commercials, so I'm > 30 minutes behind.

Sorry, shoulda said spoiler alert.

[Shirley]

Biden, yeesh.

I just can't do commercials, so I'm > 30 minutes behind.

Sorry, shoulda said spoiler alert.

Ha!

I thought about saying something about that, but like the "Gameday" thread during basketball games, it's on me to avoid contemporaneous threads.

[Shirley]

Damn, if you didn't already know that Warren was a front runner, you'd know she's a frontrunner because she's Target #1.

[Shirley]

Beto sighting! Only an hour and 20 minutes in.

[Deleted User 286]

Beto is so annoying. Randomly throwing in words in Spanish. LOL.

He's in way over his head against people like Mayor Pete / Warren / Biden / Bernie.

And Pete just ripped him apart. Twice.

[Shirley]

[Shirley]

...President Donald Trump is losing support among GOP voters in North Carolina, a stronghold for Republican presidential candidates in nine of the last 10 elections, as he faces a House impeachment inquiry sparked by his conduct towards Ukraine.

According to the latest Meredith Poll, Trump's approval rating among all North Carolina voters has sunk to 39.9 percent, down from 44 percent in March.

"The most significant factor affecting President Trump's decline in job approval ratings among North Carolinians is his loss of Republican support," said David McLennan, Meredith Poll Director, in the new report.

McLennan continued that it is the Ukraine-Biden affair and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opening of an impeachment inquiry that has "eroded his support among Republicans."

The poll shows that Trump still commands 74.7 percent approval among Republicans in North Carolina. But this is down from 86 percent party approval back in March at the height of speculation about the Mueller investigation, which was still ongoing at the time.

[Shirley]

Beto is so annoying.

^^^