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The Democratic Party Dilemma

Started by clevermike1 REPLIES579 VIEWS· 12 Feb 2020, 06:56
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clevermikeCoach57,555 posts
12 Feb 2020, 06:56
#1
12 Feb 2020, 06:56#1

Here we have a Party where the establishment decided in 2016 that Clinton should be the DP candidate in the  Presidential election.   The DP cooked the primary election results and just before their Convention the Chair of the DNC resigned in disgrace,   The DNC decided that Sanders be screwed out of the election, and afterwards paid a foreigner to prepare a crooked and lying report on collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians leading to he three years of Russian Hoax investigation.

However, their crooked shenanigans did not work out in 2016 and subsequently and one would have thought that they learned a lesson from that,   They obviously learned nothing from that crooked political venture other than that the voters must never be trusted.   That came to the fore clearly in 2019 and so far his year,   By mid-2019 the DP establishment decided that Biden would be the DP Establishment candidate in 2020, but they had two problems, namely -

*   the links between the corrupt DP leadership and the even more corrupt Ukraine; and

*   the threat of the socialist wing if the Party represented by Sanders and his supporters

To deal with the first threat they launch an Impeachment investigation on Trump but it backfired and instead opened up the scenario of exposing the corrupt links between senior DP members and especially Biden and his son in Ukraine, but  also of others as well.   In the whole process they actually threw Biden under the bus and his campaign went backwards,   Backing Biden was a huge mistake - not only because of his dubious Ukraine record, but also because he is possibly the worst campaigner ever in politics.   Not even Obama supports his candidacy.

Next strategy was to undermine the socialist part if the DP support base.  They flooded the field with new socialist  contenders of which Warren was the leading light,   This contender made no headway thus far despite more radical campaign promises than Sanders made,  Warren had a plan for everything - but the plans were in fact hogwash.

So up came the result of the Iowa caucuses and the outcome was not up to their liking,   Sanders got the most votes and the shenanigans started immediately.   The counting and distorting of the outcome took three days and the immediate effort was to get Biden above the threshold of 15% of the votes casted so that he gets at least get some delegates at the DP Convention.   Up came another candidate with less votes than Sanders, but more delegates allocated than Sanders.  The fact is the DP knows that Buttygieg has no chance in any election - his speeches are written by Silicone Valley reps - but there is another drawback,  his father was a stro ng supporter of Marxism and his record as Mayor of South Bend was extremely controversial,

The above farce was not settled yet when the New Hampshire primary came along.  The result was a disaster for Biden, His performance was so poor he fled from New Hampshire before the results were announced,   Initial reports indicate Biden got less than 9% of the votes casted.   Where to now?  Who will take over as the new Establishment favourite?                                                        


                      

CL
clevermikeCoach57,555 posts
12 Feb 2020, 09:14
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12 Feb 2020, 09:14#2

After 85% of the counting in New Hampshire has been completed the results were as follows:-

Sanders     -     25,8%

Buttygieg  -     24,4%

Kochubar  -     19,7%

Warren     -        9,3%

Biden       -        8,4%

Neither Warren nor Biden will get any delegates to the DP Congress.

So who will become the new favourite of the DP Establishment to be the candidate agaiunst Trump?   The -

*   New York Times have already written about Kochubar as their favoured candidate;

*   money contributors supported by CNN is going for Buttigieg; and

*   near to bankrupt DNC seems to think Bloomberg is the answer.

The next primary is in South Carolina and the caucuses in Nevada.   These are states Biden claims are his firewall,   A poor showing like getting 25 % or thereabouts of the vote will be the end of his campaign.    

One can expect that Kochubar will eat into the vote share of  Biden and so would Buttygieg and even Bloomberg.     However, the latter two have lousy records that would have a negative impact for them amongst the minority voters.

In the meantime amongst the Republicans they are just going through the motions in their support of Trump with little money being spent and building up funds for the main election.           

         

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