2022 US Elections

Irish music professor, but there is still a decent amount of uncounted votes in Atlanta area counties…

 
The “% reporting” number for Boebert’s race seems to keep going down. It was 99% earlier and then 98% and now 97%.
 
She’s going to win, it’s the hope that kills.

It’ll go to a recount too, just to draw out the pain.
 
WI_Red said:
I don't think they get it. The beauty of turning on Trump is that they can believe it was his fault, and not their abhorrent policy positions, that cost them this election cycle.

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Good, good, stick to denying abortion rights. Every moment brings you closer to insignificance.
 
The discussion was a few pages ago but Pete would be a decent candidate for Prez or VP.

American Presidency is like the WWE you gotta have mic skills to stand a chance. You guys love a smooth talking showman and Pete has got that judging from the 2-3 clips of him that I’ve seen.
 
Suv666 said:
The discussion was a few pages ago but Pete would be a decent candidate for Prez or VP.

American Presidency is like the WWE you gotta have mic skills to stand a chance. You guys love a smooth talking showman and Pete has got that judging from the 2-3 clips of him that I’ve seen.
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Agreed. There are few in the Dem party with the ability to communicate like him. He's still a bit young, so he may be better suited as a very strong VP choice for someone like Newsom.
 
Suv666 said:
The discussion was a few pages ago but Pete would be a decent candidate for Prez or VP.

American Presidency is like the WWE you gotta have mic skills to stand a chance. You guys love a smooth talking showman and Pete has got that judging from the 2-3 clips of him that I’ve seen.
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He is a skilled orator.
 
I just can't imagine an America with a gay married man as President, as sad as that is to type out. Far too many bigots would be enraged and far too many 'moderates' would probably have an issue too.
 
I think the main problem is that he's just not that good a candidate. Former mayor of a small town, current secretary of transportation? That's not very impressive. We saw what his wit and charm got him last time, which is to say secretary of transportation.
 
This was an interesting Opinion essay in the NY Times about the potential 2024 Democratic crop if Biden didnt run.
Biden Is No Sure Thing for 2024. What About Buttigieg? Harris? Even Whitmer?

Many Democrats cringe at the thought of Kamala Harris as the party’s 2024 nominee. They regard that as party suicide, pointing to her persistently low approval ratings and her miserable 2020 presidential campaign, which ended before the Iowa caucuses began.

But Biden chose her as a running mate because she has credentials and appeal, and her current perch would make her the ipso facto front-runner. “I think she’s one of the reasons Biden won, and she never got credit for that,” Doug Sosnik, a veteran Democratic strategist, told me. “She energized the base. She was good on the stump, and she handled herself well in the debate.”

She also made history — she’s the first woman and first Black woman in the vice presidency — and she’d be those same firsts in the presidency, an exhilarating prospect that could dissuade some would-be competitors.
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Buttigieg, 40, would be the second-youngest American president on Inauguration Day 2025, only a month and a half older than Theodore Roosevelt. He represents stark generational change. And most of the Democratic insiders I spoke with predicted that he’d be a formidable candidate, based on his breakout success in 2020 — he essentially came in third, behind Biden and Sanders, in the Democratic primaries — and his experience as transportation secretary. A gay man with a husband and two children, he, like Harris, represents progress toward equality. And he has proved to be one of the party’s gamest and nimblest messengers, his appearances on Fox News and MSNBC yielding snippets shared widely on social media.
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Can Buttigieg clear that bar? “He was an intellectual force in the Democratic primaries,” said Joel Benenson, who was Barack Obama’s chief pollster in 2008 and 2012 and whose firm did polling for Buttigieg in 2020. “He may have been a little too intellectual.” And he didn’t generate excitement among Black voters, who are critical to Democrats’ fortunes. “Serious candidates and strategists know that you must show up early and consistently with Black voters because they rightly see showing up late as checking a box rather than a serious commitment,” Benenson told me.
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Interesting takes. I completely agree with him on Pete. What I was saying earlier his biggest weakness imo isn't being gay it is not having a tangible connection to the base yet. Surprised he doesnt rate Newsome higher especially over Amy Klobuchar who I think doesnt have a chance
 
Ramshock said:
"as crazy as the left is" just feck off
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There was another comment saying how Dems extented his healthcare coverage at a crucial point in his life but "they still aren't any better than Republicans". He was called out on it too!
 
matherto said:
I just can't imagine an America with a gay married man as President, as sad as that is to type out. Far too many bigots would be enraged and far too many 'moderates' would probably have an issue too.
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It’s hard to imagine these things until they suddenly happen. See Obama, see also Harris.
 
Hamnat said:
Interesting takes. I completely agree with him on Pete. What I was saying earlier his biggest weakness imo isn't being gay it is not having a tangible connection to the base yet. Surprised he doesnt rate Newsome higher especially over Amy Klobuchar who I think doesnt have a chance
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He is mentioning Newsom's past marriage with Kimberly Guilfoyle though. Seriously, who honestly cares about that when it was 16 years ago?
 
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