As to the article, i think every candidate wants the rules to benefit them. And it's not really a surprise that someone might take one position in a two-way race and another position in an eight-way race. The odds of anyone getting an actual majority of delegates in an 8-way race are quite slim.

At the end of the day, if Bernie finishes in first with, say, 35% of delegates and the DNC decides to nominate someone who had less (or no) delegates, they run the risk of alienating a lot of people. Their choice.

Did they change a rule for him????? What was it?
#15 | POSTED BY BRUCEBANNER

Imagine being this helpless.

#102 Exactly. And after 2016 i'm not sure why anyone listens to political pundits anyway.

If investors were so lacking in confidence of Trump....the market wouldn't have done what it was doing the past 3 years.

Which is why the rest of my sentence mattered.

Investors know Trump will let greed go unpunished, lower taxes for billionaires and corporations, and let them rape the environment for pecuniary gain. That's in part why the market has gone up.

Investors at the same time have no confidence in his ability to manage this potential crisis, for equally obvious reasons.

I don't recall the Dow taking a giant ---- when Obama was handling the Ebola crisis, and despite Trump's best efforts to politicize it Obama was unscathed.

The stock market is dropping because investors have zero confidence in a steak salesman's ability to handle a pandemic.

Some are going to have to drop out

Yes, but depending on when they do, your artificial bar might not be a plausible standard to apply.

A plurality of 30 to 35% is a weak plurality. A plurality of 40 to 45% is better

A plurality of 30 to 35% in an 8-person race is not "weak." Even in a 5-person race it's not weak.

Poor shaming? The Bloomberg years sound amazing.

#10 You're setting a bar that you know no candidate could clear considering the number of people in the race and their refusal to drop out.

statewide polls are much less reliable than nationwide surveys

But electoral vote are handed out on a state by state basis. If a national popular vote mattered, national polls would matter.

Btw, the latest national polls also show bernie with a healthy lead over everyone else.

#29 It's been reported the guy was fired the day of the shooting and that he had long-running disputes with his co-workers.

No matter who Dems pick, it's not going to be a slam-dunk

Nobody said it would be, but many anti-Bernie types claim their goal is to "beat Trump" so they might want to look at some polls showing Bernie the strongest candidate in swing states.

Oh! Almost forgot to hold to my promise to donate to Bernie every time I see Bruce shilling for the establishment.

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Since Massachusetts is a semi open primary, it's safe to assume half of Bernie's support is from Republicans trolling the Dems. That means almost 90 percent of Dems don't want Bernie.

Oh we're doing completely foundation-free conjecture again?

It's safe to assume half of Bloomberg's support is from Republicans since he himself was a Republican until he found another angle. That means almost 94% of Dems don't want Bloomberg.

#62 It's getting harder and harder to tell when you're trolling, because the line between trollish opinions and those you genuinely hold is so thin.

On the off chance you aren't trolling, you have zero clue what a sociopath is, but I'll make it easy for you: the guy you support and defend every single day on this website is a sociopath. The guy who wants medicare for all, universal childcare, increased housing assistance and debt forgiveness is not.

#36 Not a response to my post, which was about this specific guy, but whatever.

At some point establishment Dems need to come to grips with the fact that if they continue battling what the plurality of their voters want, it's going to hurt them badly.

It's too bad there isn't one, consolidated thread about Corona.
#7 | POSTED BY NULLIFIDIAN AT 2020-02-27 10:57 PM

It's too bad the steak salesman you elected president is so irrevocably unqualified to handle a possible pandemic that there are so many facets of the story to talk about. If you don't like hearing about the dangerous embarrassment you've inflicted on the nation, you can always close your browser window.

He has never described plans to do any of that.

Actually he has and you can go read about them on his website, but my post wasn't about the details of the plans as much as it was a statement that someone proposing those things in apparent good faith is likely not a "sociopath," as Jeff called him.

But I'm sure your marching orders from the Bloomberg campaign today are to lie about Bernie not having plans, so lie you will do. Carry on.

#14 No no, you see, every Trumptard on this website actually voted for Gary Johnson...

"The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation"

Is this part of the playbook?

Breaking via WaPo: Officials at HHS sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint.

felt the never ending quest by vegetarians to find things that look and taste like meat pretty ironic.

I think it's reasonable to admit that the taste and texture of meat is naturally appetizing but to feel that the meat industry is morally appalling.

Frankly i'm most of the way there but there's something about grilled meat (and the nutrition profile of meats in general) that keeps me coming back.

This place would be a 100 percent blue bubble if it weren't for a half a dozen or so of us contrarians, who people like moderHate, Jpw, OWS, etc., would like to be expelled.

There's a world of difference between trolls worthy of expulsion like Sheeple and Goatman, and righties willing to actually engage on the substance like Madbomber.

But false equivalence is the hallmark of Trumptards so your post was very on brand.

Yep, it's a person who feels no empathy.
#37 | POSTED BY JEFFJ

Okay, now explain how the guy who is proposing more policies to help people with healthcare, housing, childcare, student debt, medical debt, etc can reasonably be called a sociopath.

And before you say "but his policies will actually hurt people personal responsibility blah blah blah" please note that you'd actually have to believe he knows that and is maliciously proposing his policies anyway in order to reasonably accuse him of being a sociopath.

Sanders is a sociopath

Do you know what a sociopath is?

The definition of socialism is expansive when a Democrat is doing something, and exceedingly narrow when a Republican is doing something.

This concludes today's lesson.