Oh for the love of GOD.. calm down...

[Peacetrain]

You got a poll with Trump at 50% ..Biden at 30%.. Sanders 20%, ..Warren 16% etc etc... Trump is up because guess what people.. he is the only one running in the Republican party right now..anyone else trying to run has zippers.. think it out.. when we get to one candidate he or she.. (add the numbers up) are going to be what? ... Our only problem will be is if some ass hat refuses to vote for the Democrat because their choice in the primary/caucus did not make it..


Biden said he would think about a republican.. that was a gotcha question to elicit just the reaction some here put out. No candidate should ever say they would not consider someone else just because they have an R or D behind their names. He handled that very deftly..

Jezzus beans people lay off the coffee..

[PatSeg]

1. Thanks for the calm voice of reason

[question everything]

2. An earlier post, from a few weeks ago, suggested not to post poll numbers at all

Make sense to me. Unfortunately, those poll numbers were like the infamous thumb up thump down for participating in the debates

..

[crazytown]

3. It's a Zorgby poll

There was a time when DU'ers knew what that meant. I guess they started to forget when quoting Scott Rasmussen's HarrisX poll's with approval.

[paleotn]

8. Zogby? You're kidding.

You're right. Those guys have been Rethuglican ass clowns for ...well... forever.

[redqueen]

4. This is a misreading of the situation.

"Our only problem will be is if some ass hat refuses to vote for the Democrat because their choice in the primary/caucus did not make it.."

What percentage of Dem voters even gets involved before the primaries are over?

We need more than just hard core dem voters.

[Skya Rhen]

5. The overreaction reveals that most here on DU feel that he will be the nominee. Good stuff...

[yaesu]

6. i never, ever pay attention to polls anyway. nt

[BootinUp]

7. I think people are surprised that he has

What looks like a good number and during an impeachment too.

[Peacetrain]

10. It was either during or right after the Clinton impeachment he reached his highest polls 70%

There is no explaining how people will poll during an impeachment.

[Cha]

9. Yes, "settle down"..

Link to tweet

[Peacetrain]

11. I saw this in some one elses op a little after I had posted mine

It was like a universal "oh for the love of God" .. Must be the pull of a full moon somewhere Cha.. I was just gobsmacked when I came back on this afternoon..

[Cha]

12. Much ado about

Nothing!

[paleotn]

15. Let me interpret....

Sure, if I can find a Rethuglican worth two shits. But I can't, so I won't. Hell, in this environment, if they had any sense of morality and patriotism, they'd be Democrats.

There. That's simple enough for anyone to understand.

[TwilightZone]

17. I'm not sure if people are naive or if the ignorance is intentional.

Biden is running a general election campaign. Has been since day one. He says stuff like this because it's what a lot of people want to hear, especially people who are generally apolitical or don't pay a lot of attention to every minor event that occurs in a campaign.

It seems rather obvious, yet every time one of our candidates says something remotely bipartisan, the usual suspects freak out.

[Cha]

19. Yeah, what's he gonna say..?

"hell no!".. Biden was being diplomatic.. not catering to those who are freaking out.

[Scurrilous]

24. Thanks Cha!

[Cha]

26. So much sense.. as opposed to

torches and pitchforks.

You're Welcome, Scurrilous!

[boomer_wv]

13. Wait...Where did the poll show those numbers?

The Zogby poll I see has Trump at 50% approval, but has head to head general election races as being a couple points apart.

[paleotn]

14. Exactly! One off the wall, less than reputable poll does not an election make...

IQ45's approval, from combined, reputable polls, is still in the shiter. It's been in the shiter pretty much his whole time in office. Nothing has changed except in our minds.

[angrychair]

16. Sorry, could not disagree more

It continues to signal to Republicans that they can say and do anything they want to us and we will continue attacking each and making excuses and kissing their ass.
Obama's greatest failure was trying to be bipartisan with people that, unequivocally, have no desire to act in a bipartisan manner.

For his efforts he got a plethora of executive orders and signing statements that he could never turn into laws and a shelved USSC nomination that Republicans would not even let come up for a vote.

Republicans, both elected and regular citizens, spent 8 YEARS saying some of the most derogatory and racist shit to Obama and we want to keep treating them like they might still want to be friends???? NO.

The ONLY answer to that question is:

"there is not a single Republican fit to hold office, so why would anyone ever choose a Republican?"

Followed up by:

"That is a stupid question. Have you ever asked a Republican presidential candidate that question?"

[TwilightZone]

18. "there is not a single Republican fit to hold office"

If you want to lose a lot of independents, members of the largest voting bloc in the country, this would be a great way to start.

Sometimes I wonder if people understand that we have a general election to win once we have a nominee. Alienating as many people as possible before that even starts is a nonsensical strategy.

[angrychair]

20. I stand by that statement

I say it every day, without hesitation or reservation.

That ANY Democrat or independent could feel otherwise is utterly mindboggling.


Republicans are concentrating innocent children into camps for indefinite detention and speaking in racist and antisemitic tropes daily.

We have now spent years being verbally and in some cases, physically, abused.

There is no redemptive quality in ANY Republican.

The day the Republican party goes the way of the Whigs will be a great day for this nation.

[in2herbs]

22. Agree 100% angrychair. For Biden to respond like he did is this D's deal breaker. nt

[Indykatie]

21. Thank You Peace For Setting US Straight

The whole VP question was a bull sh*t question designed to do just what it ended up doing. Getting some Dems to go bat shit crazy as if Biden or any credible Dem would ever pick a Republican. There are days I hate twitter. I know we sometimes get the crazy takes here at DU but if you track them the OP usually picked up the drama du jour on twitter.

[aikoaiko]

23. It was not a gotchya question.

He could have simply said that there are so many qualified Democrats to be VP he couldn't see needing to dip into the Republican pool.

[Skya Rhen]

27. I love my candidate's response - maybe your mystery candidate can answer it your way.

[Scurrilous]

25. Biden isn't doing highly partisan.

That's Trump's thing and Biden is doing anti-Trump.

The Christianity Today editorial was just the beginning. A sizable number of Republican voters are ready to ditch Trump and Joe Biden is positioning himself to attract their support.

[Tipperary]

28. I am not even a Biden supporter, but this seems much

ado about nothing. I wonder how many ops will be started about his perfectly (politically) reasonable answer to a baited question.

[betsuni]

29. K&R