Biden brags about his illusory accomplishments nearly as much as Amy Klobuchar brags about hers. (Most of what Biden says is patently false or exaggerated beyond credibility. In the ad above he did not lead the passage of the Affordable Care Act; he didn't have anything substantive to do with the Iran deal; he did not have anything to do with saving the auto industry; he did not lead the passage and the implementation of the Recovery Act or save us from a Depression; he passed neither the Assault Weapons Ban nor the Violence Against Women Act.) So, yeah, he's doing it again in the ad above. But that isn't why we're looking at this ad tonight. I embedded it because of how hilariously Biden's ad-maker handled slick Indiana sad sack Mayo Pete.Biden and Mayo are fighting for the conservative lane in the primary which will probably belong to Republican oligarch Michael "Mini-Me" Bloomberg in the end anyway. Biden never won an election outside of Delaware, a state with less than a million people, and the most votes he ever got was in 2008 when he took 257,484 votes in the midst of the presidential election. Other than that anomaly, the most votes he won on his own was in 1996 when he took 165,465 votes. How did he become Vice president? Obama won the election and Biden was put in the ticket because of his conservatism and whiteness. Mayo never even won an election to anything (other than to head a glorified neighborhood council). The most votes he ever got was in 2010 when he lost a race-- 633,243 (37.5%) to 1,053,527 (62.5%)-- for Treasurer to GOP sociopath Richard Mourdock. His biggest win was the 2011 South Bend mayoralty (10,991 votes; notably he didn't draw as many votes for his 2015 reelection-- just 8,515 ). He lost both serious elections he tried to win. Biden's ad captures the essence of Mayo's bullshit campaign.Meet Mr. Austerity-- the focus group responses must have changedTuesday is primary day in New Hampshire, the last of the nearly all-white states Mayo think he can win. Yesterday's CNN poll shows him winning in the conservative lane, but losing overall.
• Bernie- 28% (up 3)• Mayo- 21% (up 6)• Status Quo Joe- 11% (down 5)• Elizabeth- 9% (down 3)• Tulsi- 6% (up 1)• Klobuchar- 5% (down 1)• Yang- 3% (down 2)• Steyer- 3% (up 1)• Bloomberg- 2% (up 1)
Interesting factoid from the poll: when voters were asked to name a candidate they would not vote for under any circumstance, the people selecting Biden had grown significantly, from 11% in January to 17% (first place) today. Elizabeth is right behind him with 16% (up from 12% in January.). Of the top candidates, the only one whose numbers have gone down-- a good thing in this case-- is Bernie, who went from 13% in January to 11% now. Mayo went up from 1% to 3%.Back to Mayo. Ipsos polled before and after the New Hampshire debate Friday. Bernie had the highest pre-debate favorability (67.7%) and the highest favorability after the debate (69.4%) and was viewed as having had theist debate performance (the winner).Of the 5 top candidates, Biden had the worst night. He came in 5th for performance and his favorability dropped from 66.6% to 64.3%. What about Mayo? He was tied for second place with Klobuchar for debate performance and his favorability rose from 51.7% to a much more robust 56.9%, which is still way below Bernie, Biden and Elizabeth.And who do voters feel is best equipped to beat Señor Trumpanzee? Before the debate it was Biden (63.5%) but after watching him in action, voters moved him way down to 58.7%. So, for the first time, Bernie is now viewed as the most electable against Trump. He went from 59.4% to 60.0%. Mayo also moved up, but from 47.4% to 49.9%.So what about Mayo? Fortunately, people are beginning to catch on to the manufactured, plastic candidate-- and sharing the revelations with their circles:
