Archive for March, 2020
DL Open Thread: Tues., March 3, 2020
Corporadems Coalesce Around Ol’ Joe. I’m not generally much of a conspiracy theorist. But the seemingly spontaneous endorsement orgy has me suspicious. It’s not as if Buttigieg and Klobuchar had to get out before Super Tuesday, and it’s not as if the Biden campaign was nimble enough to orchestrate this. All I can say is, […]
Super Tuesday Preview Thread
Expectations for Biden are sky high after a day of rolling up (almost) all of the moderate Republicans running for the Democratic nomination. It is hard to see how he can beat those expectations, but I’m sure MSNBC will come up with some rationale to explain why Biden did spectacularly.
Who knows? Maybe he will do spectacularly. If the Republicans Amy Klobuchar was begging to vote for Biden could vote, he would be sitting pretty.
I’ll be interested in the “Biden + Bloomberg” vote vs the “Sanders + Warren” vote. California, for example, appears to be rejecting Clintonian Third Way politics outright.
538.com just updated its primary forecast to give Biden a razor thin delegates advantage going into the convention. Biden: 1,561. Sanders: 1,532
According to Nate Silver’s reckoning, if all of Bloomberg’s predicted delegates go to Biden, and all of Warren’s delegates go to Sanders, Biden would win the nomination outright just prior to the convention with 2,123 of 1,990 required delegates. Why Bloomberg didn’t endorse Biden today is a bit of a mystery to me.
DL’ers have spoken – Chris Matthews Quits
MSNBC Host Chris Matthews Resigns After Accusations of Sexism and Harassment Matthews’ exit comes on the heels of a reporter’s allegation that he sexually harassed her before an on-air segment in 2016.M
Highlands Bunker – E56 – The Scarane Train & Bonus
Ed Note:
“People get ready, Scar-rane ‘s a-coming,
You don’t need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don’t need no ticket
You just thank the Lord
I’m playing catch up here, so you may have already listened to the great Jess Scarane episode. If so, find the Coby’s Birthday Bash episode below.
US Senate candidate Jessica Scarane joins Rob in the bunker to talk about why she is running against Chris Coons, the base values that we should have as a society, and why we probably shouldn’t let billionaires run everything.
Show Notes:
The bunker heads to Wilmington Brew Works to attend Coby Owens’s birthday fundraiser and talk to WFP Pennsylvania Organizing Director Nicholas O’Rourke, Philadelphia At-Large Councilwoman Kendra Brooks, potential Wilmington resident Josh Whittaker, and State Representative candidate Larry Lambert.
Show Notes:
Photo: Coronavirus task force takes decisive action at White House
That’s Alex Azar, Coons’ Yale Law & Alfalfa club buddy, praying away with his back to the camera. Coons gushed about how good his buddy Azar was going to be when he voted in favor of his appointment.
Breaking – Klobs drops to endorse Joe Biden
Sen. Amy Klobuchar will drop out of the 2020 presidential race on Monday and endorse former Vice President Joe Biden. The Minnesota senator leaves the race a day before Super Tuesday
Super Tuesday Morning Line
The election railbirds have picked a narrative, and that narrative is Joementum. Because South Carolina’s late-deciding voters broke decisively for Biden, he vastly outperformed the final opinion polls. That’s what the political press means by momentum, so Joe has it. That could all change by Wednesday, because Super Tuesday looks to belong to Bernie Sanders. […]
Corona Virus now within a 2 hour drive of Delaware
When it is China, Iran, Italy or even Washington State it feels a world away. Now NYC has a case, so it is probably here as well. Keep washing your hands.
Song of the Day 3/2: “Where Is Love?”
Those kids who’ve been separated from their parents and kept in cages at the border haven’t gotten much media time lately — the last thing I saw, about a week ago, concerned a study that found family separation affects people the same was torture does. This barely registered as a blip in the news cycle. […]
DL Open Thread: Mon., March 2, 2020
Coronavirus Outbreak In Washington State. Scientists believe that the virus has been spreading unabated for six weeks, largely thanks to Federal strict testing requirements. How Delaware Lawmakers Spend Their Community Transportation Funds. I didn’t realize the extent to which legislators ‘lend’ money to other legislators with no areas in common. Worth reading, and I definitely […]
Comment Rescue – Open Letter to Centrists
Left of Center Democrats have been a loyal constituency of the Democratic Party, but we’ve been treated with nothing but contempt.
To Democratic centrists: If you want to get back to the center, you have to proceed due left for few cycles. A four-year jog back to center-right (Biden) will only allow the hard right to regroup.
The problem with compromising with the right is they keep moving right. They have reached the end of right wing and have built cantilevers and catwalks to extend their position out into batshit territory, and have severed any remaining link to reason. Is that really who you want to compromise with?
If Democratic “moderates” are so hungry for compromise, let them start building a compromise platform with their own left wing. Chris Coons, hang up on Marco Rubio and give AOC a call. You’ll both gain from it. The Democratic party has always been strongest when it had a strong left wing.
Doesn’t matter who I support for President, because I live in Delaware. If anyone wants to know, I’m for Warren.
Buttigieg Calls It Quits
It’s all for the best. The longer he stayed in, the more people he would have alienated with his smarty-pants high school debating tactics: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/01/buttigieg-dropping-out-of-presidential-race-118489 I went from really liking him to not being able to tolerate him. Don’t think I was the only one.
Some Post-South Carolina Primary Thoughts
1) Demographics show South Carolina’s Democratic Party is no more representative than those in Iowa or New Hampshire. It’s an open primary, so some Republicans dilute the voting pool, but only 7% of white South Carolinians are Democrats. So it appears that moderate white Democrats and moderate black Democrats are the ones who can’t agree […]
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