DL Readers & Lurkers Presidential Instant-runoff Voting

The sidebar poll doesn't reveal much, so put your top three choices in the comments section and we'll run an "Instant-runoff voting" poll. (e.g. Biden, Klobuchar, Buttigieg) Ballots will be initially counted for each commenter's top choice. If a candidate has more than half of the vote based on first-choices, that candidate wins. If not, then the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. The commenters who selected the defeated candidate as a first choice will have their votes added to the totals of their next choice. This process will continue until a candidate has more than half of the votes.

…that would be evil socialism

Me: We need health care like they have in Europe.  Him: We can't have healthcare like Europe because it is too expensive.   Me: Why don't we get a little money from all the very rich guys?  Him: We can't get even a little money from all the very rich guys because that is evil Socialism.   Me: So American was an evil socialist country from the end of World War II until about 25 years ago?  Him: We can't get even a little money from all the very rich guys because that is evil Socialism.    

Dem Debates

I didn't watch much. I don't like the sniping, especially when they agree on all the important stuff if not all the details. Anyway, I don't have much to say about the candidates individually, I just love the stage full of such a diverse selection of Americans. Gays, Hawaiians, Old Dudes, Women Senators, Rich Guys, a Taiwanese-American... Pretty awesome. I'm old enough to remember when this type of thing would be composed entirely of white guys who went to Yale or Harvard.

Coons promises to give Mitch McConnell veto power in the Senate

This article in the Prospect does a good job delving into the elitism that is the crux of Coons unwillingness to represent regular Delawareans  in the US Senate.
Coons does want the Senate to change - by becoming even more conservative than it already is. Along with Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, Coons organized a letter, signed by 61 senators, pledging to keep the filibuster in place, which would make any sort of progressive legislation that much harder should Democrats take control of the government next year. In September, during a discussion about the Senate and bipartisanship with former Senators Joe Donnelly and Jeff Flake, Coons suggested that it might not be possible to have a Senate that’s both diverse and doesn’t “produce irreconcilable discord.”