I doubt that. The whole reason the DNC pushed him in and then kept him in the race wasn’t to stop Trump, it was to stop eftists from sneaking through the nomination process. The DNC “centrists” haven’t run a square primary since Obama stole the nomination from “it’s her turn” Hilary in 2008.
Eh, Hanlon’s Razor. There are certainly plenty of dirty neo-libs, but I also think the Democratic party is where passionate, practical minded, progressive political science types wind up, and I think that demographic is well-meaning but caught up in metrics.
Metrics rely on historical data. Obviously Biden should be the candidate, he’s an incumbent, and incumbents have an advantage. The problem is the sample size is too low (n = 47) to really control for most variables. Especially since when you consider the study longitudinally, n = 1.
Anyway, politics is hard, and I’m willing to give a little grace to those who are least trying to be smart. Strategists seem like the smart move, but the big paradox of analyzing a quickly-changing subject is that the more data-backed your strategy, the more outdated it is. The world moves too fast now.
I suspect a not-insignificant segment of the caucus has been been just sincerely trying to play the right moves.
The “he had to drop out” part is the issue and it wasn’t just because of people crying about his age, the whole “we finally beat Medicare” and his brain melting on live t.v played a big part.
I’m like 90% sure he said he’d run for one term when running in 2020, but then he held on to the belief that he was the only one who could win for too long that getting primary elections set up would have taken too long. Republicans were already talking about going to court over Kamala being added to the rolls “too late” so Kamala was “forced” on us.
He didn’t specify one term in 2020. His aides kept making comments in that direction, but nothing definitive. Back then it made me afraid he’d try to stay for a second term, because that seemed like a sure way to lose…
Obligatory: Biden can go fuck himself right off a cliff. The narcissistic dogmatic prick refused to believe anyone but him could beat Trump…
I doubt that. The whole reason the DNC pushed him in and then kept him in the race wasn’t to stop Trump, it was to stop eftists from sneaking through the nomination process. The DNC “centrists” haven’t run a square primary since Obama stole the nomination from “it’s her turn” Hilary in 2008.
Eh, Hanlon’s Razor. There are certainly plenty of dirty neo-libs, but I also think the Democratic party is where passionate, practical minded, progressive political science types wind up, and I think that demographic is well-meaning but caught up in metrics.
Metrics rely on historical data. Obviously Biden should be the candidate, he’s an incumbent, and incumbents have an advantage. The problem is the sample size is too low (n = 47) to really control for most variables. Especially since when you consider the study longitudinally, n = 1.
Anyway, politics is hard, and I’m willing to give a little grace to those who are least trying to be smart. Strategists seem like the smart move, but the big paradox of analyzing a quickly-changing subject is that the more data-backed your strategy, the more outdated it is. The world moves too fast now.
I suspect a not-insignificant segment of the caucus has been been just sincerely trying to play the right moves.
He had to drop out because everyone was crying he was too old, then elected someone equally old but with an actual criminal record.
The “he had to drop out” part is the issue and it wasn’t just because of people crying about his age, the whole “we finally beat Medicare” and his brain melting on live t.v played a big part.
I’m like 90% sure he said he’d run for one term when running in 2020, but then he held on to the belief that he was the only one who could win for too long that getting primary elections set up would have taken too long. Republicans were already talking about going to court over Kamala being added to the rolls “too late” so Kamala was “forced” on us.
He didn’t specify one term in 2020. His aides kept making comments in that direction, but nothing definitive. Back then it made me afraid he’d try to stay for a second term, because that seemed like a sure way to lose…
Dude still thinks he would have won. Fuck him.