Election 2020

[TS Garp]

attention, 2020 election scouts: Cory Booker coming on Rachel Maddow's show shortly.

iirc, they were Rhodes Scholars together in Oxford or Cambridge or wherever those people go

"those people."

[Judge Jude]

my brother got undergrad and graduate degrees at Columbia and still works there
I have standing

[B-Fly]

my brother got undergrad and graduate degrees at Columbia and still works there
I have standing

What's wrong with getting undergrad and graduate degrees at Columbia? Roar, Lion, Roar!

[Judge Jude]

I made a joke that either somebody didn't get or they forgot their emoji

[B-Fly]

I made a joke that either somebody didn't get or they forgot their emoji

I like to joke without emojis...keep everyone on their toes.

[Judge Jude]

I like to joke without emojis...keep everyone on their toes.

and possibly to reply to posts not about them

[Steve 2.0]

and possibly to reply to posts not about them

Wait a minute.....

[In the Corn]

thanks - this helps me understand things - many "undecided" or "non 2 party voters" really are not - you are

Just as another point of interest, my mom who is a pretty dyed in the wool conservative has told me numerous, "I like Klobuchar!" So if you can get my mom, who is a Trump support to like a moderate Democrat, the Democrats would have more than a puncher's chance to pull moderates.

[Judge Jude]

Jennifer Epstein
Verified account @jeneps
10m10 minutes ago

NEW: Democrats will hold their first 2020 primary debates in June (w/ NBC, MSNBC, Telemundo) and July (w/ CNN) with as many as 20 candidates divided over 2 nights. Hopefuls can qualify w >1% in 3 polls or 65k+ natl donors including 200 or more in 20 states.

[revo]

The first Republican has entered the race:

Washington (CNN)Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld said he's launching a presidential exploratory committee to run in 2020 as a Republican.

"I hope to see the Republican Party assume once again the mantle of being the party of Lincoln. It upsets me that our energies as a society are being sapped by the President's culture of divisiveness in Washington," he said Friday in New Hampshire, adding later, "Because of the many concerns I've talked about today, I've established an exploratory committee ... as a Republican in the 2020 election."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/politics/bill-weld-2020-exploratory-committee/index.html

[baldgriff]

The "culture of divisiveness" started WAAAY before Trump. He took advantage of it!

[Mithrandir]

The "culture of divisiveness" started WAAAY before Trump. He took advantage of it!

Trump did take advantage of it, but he also increased the divisiveness a million-fold.

[DMT]

Trump did take advantage of it, but he also increased the divisiveness a million-fold.

But that doesn't matter to the Bothsiders as long as they can find any instance to support their cause.

[baldgriff]

But that doesn't matter to the Bothsiders as long as they can find any instance to support their cause.

"Both-siders" - another in a long line of ways to describe people that see the political process in our country is no longer for the people - but rather for the parties. But you go on drinking the kool-aid from the left side of the bar. They are serving basically the same drink on the right side and calling it lemonade. Its all poison - and poison kills.

[DMT]

"Both-siders" - another in a long line of ways to describe people that see the political process in our country is no longer for the people - but rather for the parties. But you go on drinking the kool-aid from the left side of the bar. They are serving basically the same drink on the right side and calling it lemonade. Its all poison - and poison kills.

Wrong again. I fully recognize that the political process in our country is broken and unrepresentative of the people. That doesn't mean that both sides are equally to blame, nor that neither side is preferable. One side is actively promoting the destruction of our planet, stoking racism, blocking the provision of health care to millions, attacking women's reproductive freedom, shifting money to the rich, undermining our education system, and vilifying immigrants. The Democrats have their own issues but to see what the Trump Party has become and still maintain that both sides are equally to blame is just delusional or idiotic.

Of course, when you think billionaires should pay the same tax rate as single mothers living paycheck to paycheck, it is not surprising that you think this way.