Plus if Booker runs it would be fun to see all the news stories about all the people, dogs, etc. he has saved from certain death. He's a superhero!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-b...s-he-has-saved

IMO corporate interests mostly* donate to likely winners and, in closer races, to both sides, in order to maintain access to political power. This will remain so as long as the broad platform of each party is favourable enough to those interests. It may only be window-dressing (or, conceivably, lemonade-making), but refusing corporate money at least signals some intent to remain independent of them.

And I personally don't think it's a good thing if the Dem platform will benefit corporations, so ipso fatso and all that.

*you do get some crusaders, like Adelson(?) bankrolling Frothy well after he was a political nonentity.

Scew a celebrity without a solid history on policy. Screw the old people, even if they have the policy background.

We need new candidates with ideas in the mainstream. We put up a leftist with only leftist policies we lose to Trump. Thats just unacceptable.

If the Bernie bros had held their nose and got behind Hillary we wouldnt have Trump. Surely thats a better outcome we can agree on?

His issue is that he never married. Whats wrong with him that with his impressive resume and looks to be a good person that he cant find love? If he's gay, come out.

Your pony should stop accepting donations too.

Looks to me like he was too busy.

The complaint about Sanders => Trump voters is just complaining about the weather:

The centrists have run out of stuff to threaten the left with. They got their way and they lost anyway. The thing they said would happen if they didn't get their way happened anyway. Crying about Russia and primary=>general defections entirely consistent with previous elections is just a refusal to face the fact that their platform lost, and lost to Donald ****ing Trump. If the centrists getting their way doesn't guarantee the right is kept out, then it's not at all important that the centrists get their way.

And it's not just the POTUSbowl. The centrists have been getting their way downticket, too, and they've been losing downticket (the current swing notwithstanding, especially considering the relatively high number of markedly left candidates that have won some of those races). Centrism, it turns out, is not the universally sensible, practical, sure-fire winner we've been told.

So sure, let's not run Leon Trotsky. But the left is - or at least, IMO should be - done moving to the centre. The centre is going to have to move left.

gonna need to see a verrit.com verification code for that one

Haven't looked at the study, but I suspect the general phenomenon might be at least partially explained by tactical voting in open primaries.

Uh, even the most qualified screw it up, so **** that, let's get unqualified people in there?

Are you ******ed?

It says the voters are ****ing ******ed as well. But if you win by running a moron then, well, YOU STILL HAVE A MORON AS PRESIDENT.

Note, I am not calling Winfrey a moron in this post. That is not my point. My point is she is a ****ing talk show host and has no business being president. Give me a ****ing break.

Warren please

Although I agree with most of her polices, we dont need 80 year old candidates for President.

All the Democratic leadership in Washington are so old. We need new blood in leadership. Sanders/Biden/Warren all need to hang up their presidential aspirations and let someone else younger run.

You also don't need a candidate incapable of appealing to people who didn't like HRC.

80?

hyperbole dude....get some. It's a political board.

For obvious reasons, politicians seem to practically live forever. Given the rise in life expectancy across the board, a 70+ year old running shouldn't be a deterrent.

dnc rn:

Hyperbole: I would use hyperbole and say Elizabeth Warren is only like 35 yrs old in Native American years and that would be wicked funny, but I won't say that because hyperbole is only hyperbole for leftist, anyone else using hyperbole is labeled a racist by leftist because that's the only way leftist know how to debate a reasoned left of center Centrist like myself.

This is a political board for leftist, everyone else is labeled a racist.

Says the man with the racist forum name, hey but that's OK dude. As long as you spout leftist rhetoric, your racist sign-in name is perfectly acceptable.

I think he's a Kansas City Chiefs fan, and hoo boy are you butthurt about your latest racism ban

fyp

Warren looks younger than her real age imho.

Xxxx her. If she backs Bernie early vs Hillary as she should have it’s a better world. She close to him on policy etc was was to chicken xxxx to do the right thing and do what she wanted .