55% of Democratic primary voters are considering casting their ballots for Elizabeth Warren

[bluewater]

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[comradebillyboy]

1. The nomination will be decided long before NMs primary in June.

It doesn't matter who I support it will be over before I can vote.

[Hoyt]

2. Well she is promising a lot, something new weekly. Reality will set in at some point.

[Bradshaw3]

3. She is making proposals that are grounded in reality

And backed up with facts and funding mechanisms. I doubt that you've ready anything about a single one of them so here is a link:
https://elizabethwarren.com/plans#rebuild-the-middle-class

Try reading some of them and then when you post your comments can be grounded in reality.

[Hoyt]

4. Yes, I am familiar with them, and they all are worthy. Unfortunately, she can't pay for them

so it's just a pipe-dream. She will likely lose the General Election for that very reason, assuming she can even take the Democratic Primary.

[Bradshaw3]

6. Apparently not familiar enough

Because her plans include funding mechanisms. It's funny that you accuse her of bieng unrealistic while you make unsubtantiated or outright false claims like the ones here. She does have ways to pay for them and she beats rump in head-to-head polls. Try reading them this time and look at some head-to-head polls.

[Hoyt]

7. Yep, she's spent her supposed funding sources many times over. It's unrealistic.

Just unfulfilled promises that voters will see through, putting us years away from getting any significant improvements.

[Blue_true]

15. You just keep hanging onto that "she can't fund everything"

claim like she will try to fund everything at the same time. Somehow the word "priorities" keeps flying off you like water off a duck.

My guess is she will decide what is most critical when President, and she would fund that one or two items. It turns out that once she implement the first two, normal economic dynamics take over to provide tax revenue to partially or completely fund the next items in her priorities list.

[Hoyt]

16. She has never once mentioned priorities -- just promise after promise, the type populists always

give to people. Even if she tried to implement them in steps, at some point all that tax piles up and the deficit is even more than today. Oh BTW, has she ever mentioned the word Deficit?

She won't win the general election, and is questionable in the Democratic primary.

Heck, she even came out against Obama's medical device tax because that's a big industry in her state. That tax might have been small -- roughly 2.5% -- but it was a major aspect of the ACA, making those who profit from the healthcare industry pay. But, the medical device lobbyists got to Warren and she rolled.

[Blue_true]

17. Politician promise. Then when elected, they set priorities.

To act like that has not historically happened is what gets my goat with you.

But otherwise

[Hoyt]

18. Never said it hasn't happened, but at least you admit she's BSing us. People will see that.

[Lexblues]

12. Yeah, the Senate will certainly approve all of Warren's plans

Even without a filibuster, she couldn't get 50 Dems to agree on her plans. Her plans are DOA.

[bluewater]

13. Biden promised rich donors that "nothing will change"

Unfortunately, that's a very easy promise to keep, eh?

[Hoyt]

14. Unlike Warren, Biden is smart enough to know that if wealthy fear big changes, they'll cash in

and hide assets, maybe setting off another recession. Warren seems more interested in spouting populist stuff, without an understanding or carrying about impact.

She did that running up to the November 2016 by bashing Obama and Clinton over global trade. Helped give us trump, IMO, and we got the tariffs and reneging on trade agreements she wanted all along.

[thesquanderer]

5. re: "No other candidates come close to 50%. "

Well, I'd say Biden's 48% comes pretty close to 50%.

What's significant to me isn't the absolute figure, but that Warren ranks first in this metric, even despite lower name recognition than Biden or Sanders. Others might come some up as their recognition increases, but Biden and Sanders have less upside potential.

[bluewater]

9. um, they included Joe at 48% then said no OTHER candidates come close to 50%

You misread that, apparently.

[thesquanderer]

10. Yup! (n/t)

[bluewater]

11. happens to us all