DL Open Thread: Fri., Jan. 31, 2020
Today is a day that will live in obloquy: Britain's last day in the European Union and Donald Trump's exoneration by the U.S. Senate. Don't get mad, get even. The…
Joe Biden apparently doesn’t care if you vote for him. No, really. On Tuesday in Iowa the former vice-president had the latest in a series of bizarre encounters with potential voters, telling a man who asked him about the issue of building new pipelines and where he stood on the climate crisis to “go vote for someone else”. The man, the former Iowa state representative Ed Fallon, said that he would support him in the general election against Donald Trump but not in the Iowa primary, which irked Biden, who wrongly assumed he was a Bernie Sanders supporter.Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani A man in Iowa asks Joe Biden to stop supporting the building of new pipelines. Joe Biden tells him to go vote for someone else and then starts accusing him of voting for Bernie Sanders. Actually, the man says, he's voting for Tom Steyer. Very awkward.
Excitement unleashes the creativity and energy of supporters, doesn’t dictate schoolmarmish instructions to them. Excitement attracts voters, it doesn’t chase them. Excitement wins.