BREAKING NEWS! I now announce my top five.

[Funtatlaguy]

As you all know, I promised to come off of my undecided stance after the debates.
I know you’ve all been waiting for my announcement.
Well, I kinda sorta am.
Here’s my current Top Five:

1. Warren
1a. Harris
3. Buttigieg
4. Castro
5. Biden
(Honorable Mention: Williamson. I want her to read my aura and rub sage in my house).

Talk amongst yourself and return to your regular programming.

[FM123]

1. Great choices!

I too promised to come off my undecided stance after the debates, BUT have only been able to narrow it down - not select my one and only....

[Funtatlaguy]

2. As you can see, I didn't pick one either.

I was so proud of and impressed by both Warren and Harris.
And since they were on different nights, I really couldn’t choose right now.
They are tied for me until the July debates.

[IrishEyes]

3. I've been waiting with bated breath

There are a lot of good candidates to choose from.

I'm looking forward to seeing them all on the same debate stage.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. I have bad breath.

Fixed your post.

[underthematrix]

4. My TOP Five based on my 3 C test

1. BIDEN
2. BENNET
3. INSLEE
4. BULLOCK
5. HICKENLOOPER

These five are 3 for 3 on my 3C test
Character
Competence
Capacity

Of course I will vote for the 2020 DEM nominee no matter what.

[comradebillyboy]

7. Are you telling us that none of the women running have

character, competence or capacity? Very interesting perspective.

[underthematrix]

13. I don't think they have the capacity to put together a great leadership team

I don't think they understand the difference between community organizing and activism. I would say the same applies to Sanders.

[Celerity]

16. truly WTF

I don't think they have the capacity to put together a great leadership team

[underthematrix]

20. I use critical thinking to assess candidates. Harris is my senator and

I love her being my senator. She's awesome. Warren is the best policy wonk candidate ever. She is amazing.

Presidents must represent the entire country not just the people who supported them. Presidents must be able to recruit the BEST and brightest, including those have the historical memory of our constitutional democracy actually working.

I don't see Harris in particular having the relational and political resources to make that happen. I see Warren as having a better chance of pulling together a high quality team.

If either one became the nominee, I would happily support them, campaign for them and VOTE for them.

But they didn't make my 3C list because there are more qualified candidates.

[Celerity]

21. Harris is my Senator too (Ted Lieu is my congressman)

I would never say that any of our serious candidates, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, etc are not capable of butting together a great leadership team.

Obviously people are one million percent free to rank one over the other, but that is NOT what you did. You said they were incapable, literally that they lack the capacity. To me that is an outrageous statement.

[underthematrix]

23. Outrageous? It's my opinion. Putting together a leadership is

highly dependent on the relationships nurtured over a LONG period of time. I chose the candidates who had the BEST capacity to recruit, build and sustain the BEST team. While I think Warren has more capacity than Harris, I still think a candidate's policy prescriptions determine who they can get to implement them AS THE CANDIDATE ENVISIONED.

If Harris or Warren was our nominee and they put together a team and the team said, look we can do this piece, but we can't do this other piece now because of one, two three. I would be the kind of supporter who would respect that because I understand policy making is extremely complicated. However, the same people who are supporting them for emotional reasons would be the same people attacking them when they are unable to implement exactly what they envisioned.

[Bradshaw3]

10. All white males and three over 67 years old

Interesting.

[underthematrix]

14. Yes. I'm an old African American woman

But I didn't choose them based on age. I chose them based on my 3C test.

[Bradshaw3]

15. They would all make very good presidents n/t

[underthematrix]

17. Hey I'm an old fashioned voter.

With said, I know I MUST vote for whoever the DEM nominee will be. That's my commitment to the common good. Even if the nominee doesn't meet my 3C test, I know all of our candidates are committed to the wellbeing of ALL Americans, including immigrants, the backbone and strength of our nation.

[Bradshaw3]

18. Very well said

I, too, will vote for, work for and donate to, whoever the Democatic nominee is, no matter what.

[underpants]

6. You forgot Williamson

Come on!!

[Funtatlaguy]

9. No I didn't. She got an honorable mention & some crystals.

[underpants]

11. Yes she has great energy

marianne williamson has the same energy as a live laugh love wall vinyl from homegoods

[StevieM]

8. Right now I am leaning toward Kamala Harris, based heavily on her performance in the debates.

I thought she did better than any of the candidates in either debate.

[Bradical79]

12. My mother's top 5 for the debates pl(I missed a lot due to work)

No particular order:

Warren
Harris
Sanders
Castro
Buttigieg

I feel like Warren is her front runner, with Harris and Castro trailing closest.

She also liked Gabbard and Booker.

She didn't mention O'Rourke, Klobuchar, Inslee, Gillibrand, Delaney, Hickenlooper, De Blasio, or Bennett.

She thought Swalwell had a couple good points, and her opinion of Biden as POTUS dropped.

She thought Yang and Ryan stood out as not even belonging on the same stage as the rest.

My impressions from another large forum I follow: Warren is the most well regarded, and there is a very sharp devide over Sanders. Extremely polarizing. Harris gained a fair amount of support, though her record as AG is hotly debated (and a big turn off for some).

Biden is outright despised by most, but at the same time, there's still division over whether he is the best to beat Trump.

Buttigieg did well, some argument over social justice and his city (I think missed some big news at some point). Castro was getting some buzz.

Yang got a lot of talk, mostly for comedic value. A few liked him previously, but agreement was universal that he bombed. First time I've ever seen every single person on a forum with tens of thousands of members agree on a political candidate before lol.

[Celerity]

19. I will play

1. Buttigieg
1a. Harris (I have the feeling she might be getting my California vote if Pete doesn't move up in A-A support)
3. Warren
4. Booker
5. Bullock (my contrarian centrist dark horse pick (still wish he would run for Senate though), he really intrigues me, as he is the ONLY candidate to win in a ruby red state, he also , as Governor bent a Rethug legislature to his will a lot, he is now qualified for the second round of debates, and he has the 'it' factor for me). I think he would pull a shit tonne of swing voters.

[Honeycombe8]

22. Not meaning to be overly critical, but you haven't made much progress.

You've just identified the ones who are left standing after the debates. (Well, and Sanders, too. Sort of)