2020 presidential nomination

Joe Biden-- The Lesser EvilAll the Democrats running for president claim-- to one degree or another-- that they favor legalizing marijuana nationally... except former Colorado Governor John Frackenlooper, who fought against marijuana legalization when his own state ignored him and passed it by referendum. (He campaigned against Amendment 64 but he passed 55.32% to 44.58%. It garnered 1,383,139 votes.

No one won our Joe Biden contest. Like I said 5 weeks ago when we launched it, when I worked at Warner Bros, we would spend immense energy on rolling out new releases, especially for superstar artists like Madonna, Prince, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Depeche Mode, Green Day... Every department in the company would pull together to create an atmosphere that would drive radio airtime, TV appearances, advance music sales, advance ticket sales, press, word of mouth, etc. Sometimes we would plan half a year in advance to lock up scarce opportunities everyone else was competing for...

Would these people accept an Establishment bargain with a "unity candidate"?by Thomas Neuburger“We are going to win this primary, but if we don’t, he will do whatever it takes to defeat Donald Trump. If the nominee is Bernie Sanders, will those Democratic insiders fully support a Bernie Sanders campaign?

He's run or tried to run 6 times before-- only to be rejected by Democratic voters. Is 7 the charm? He's on the top of almost all the polls-- the status quo conservative alternative to change-makers Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But now that he's in, his record-- long and disgusting-- will be coming out. Will his Democratic primary supporters-- primarily blacks and the elderly-- care?

David Dayen's piece in Monday's Intercept, Nancy Pelosi's Drug-Pricing Talks With The Trump Administration Are About Mediating Fights Between Corporate Interests, highlights her balancing the bottom lines for campaign donors at Big PhRMA and the hospital industry and leaving consumers to rot.

A headline by Julie Bykowicz and Ken Thomas in this morning's Wall Street Journal-- Joe Biden’s Expected 2020 Bid Is Likely to Rely on Big Donors-- makes it perfectly clear which lane Biden is going for in the 2020 nomination battle: the status quo, conservati

I wasn't sure if we'd have a Part VIII in this Worst Democraps Who Want To Be President series but today, after extensive focus group-testing in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Seth Moulton went on Good Morning America and de

The most recent poll of South Carolina primary voters-- actually a registered voters poll by Emerson-- was about a month and a half ago. South Carolina is different from the states we usually look at.

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How will these people respond if they think Sanders was cheated again?by Thomas NeuburgerLike many I watched the 2016 Democratic primary carefully, and like many I was appalled by what looked like rampant cheating of varying types and degrees by national party leaders, state officials and local functionaries.