Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I'm switching to Buttigieg because he is a game changer. [View all]marylandblue
(12,344 posts)He gives the best answers of any politician in my lifetime. In the age of Trump, it's the main thing that matters. It may be the only thing that matters.
He's still too small to be in head-to-head polls with Trump. If I'm wrong, people will say he's too young and gay, so forget him. If I'm right, people will listen to him, get blown away, and he will run away with the field and Trump's schoolboy antics won't touch him. There won't be a middle ground.
Stranger things have happened. A punchline became a President. The fact that it happened reflects a major shift in our politics and our perceptions that we are still feeling our way through. A similar thing happened in 1976-80, when one improbable President followed another.
Look at the rest of our field. The top leaders are a two time loser, a socialist, a black woman, and a woman who first entered politics at age 62. Even stranger is that the two women are running on the socialist's platform. The hotshot phenom candidate is a guy who took a selfie at the dentist and people didn't think he was nuts.
Look at what other strangeness going on. The most influential member of Congress is a freshman 29-year old whose previous job was bartender. She said "Green New Deal" like once and half the candidates are now running on that. But the two-term governor whose been talking about it for 10 years is polling at 2%.
One of the Democrats' biggest fears is that the inventor of overpriced coffee may actually be able to screw them.
This is not your father's election year. Think outside the box. Everyone else is.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden