substantively I think Pete did OK. But it’s those gotcha moments that go viral. So we will see how much impact a Friday night debate has on his momentum. Klobuchar is primed to overtake Biden in New Hampshire, following her respectable Iowa performance and consecutive strong debates. If that happens, does Joe drop out before Super Tuesday?
We just need as close to an even balance between the power of corporations and the individual worker as possible, of course the answer is more unions but they've been gutted so much in the private sector I don't believe they can make a comeback without major reform. But don't tell civil servants that, unions and pensions are their bread and butter yet they still tend to vote Republican which is mind boggling to me.
I am afraid Biden won't be dropping off. I think he reasonably expects that South Carolina and Super Tuesday will be big for him. If he does far worse than expected on those days, I still doubt he would drop out.
If electing a president means that the president get to do whatever and Congress is just a side show, I would have a serious problem with some of the candidates. Since that’s not the case for any of these Dem candidates with either a Rep or Dem controlled congress, I have no problem with any of them.
That's why sectoral/multiemployer union bargaining is a much needed reform in our country. We need to push whoever wins the Dem nomination to have that as a tablestakes part of their platform.
I think the issue is that the questions he struggled on were on the race issues - and that's the area where he has to, in a very short time frame, make up some serious ground with Latino and AA voters. His responses sort of feed into the narrative that he's clueless on that stuff, and it just makes it that much harder for him to get legitimacy in NV/SC. I'm a Pete fan - but I'm not sure how he fixes this problem at this point. I thought it was fixable last November when he had a few months to do it, but he's made no progress thus far.
Pete fixes his problem with African American and minority voters by gaining a prominent cabinet position in the next administration (would be a great choice for SOS) and improving his national profile for a future run. “Electability” and the ability to win are the ways to win over those crowds that aren’t taking you seriously right now.
Ya and I kinda like the candidate who rings this point home time and time again for the past few decades. But hey I guess I'm a "bro".
