Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: U.S. Voters Back Medicare Expansion but Not Eliminating Private Insurance [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)an ability to listen to qualified, non-partisan experts, accept new data when presented to her, and intellectual agility. She has a respect for scholarship, and is not threatened by credentialed people who say, "You could do this more effectively another way." She doesn't need people around her constantly telling her she's right, completely and unassailably the authority on all things progressive.
At this point all the candidates are making their initial ideas known, and Medicare for All is still a vague enough concept in most people's mind that a candidate can change their own version of it to be more of a public option available to many.
Like Obama on Gay Marriage, and Paul Wellstone on health care reform, I believe she's someone who can and will come around and say she learned some things that caused her to change her mind. She genuinely cares about promoting what will work more than she does about her own ego.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden