Worthless careerists, Abby and Joe, have nothing to offer votersDid conservative Democrat Abby Finkenauer's endorsement of Biden ruin his Iowa campaign? Iowa's first district used to be very blue. Obama beat McCain there, 58.5% to 40.4%, Obama's biggest win in the state. It was also the scene of his biggest victory against Romney in 2012-- 56.2% to 42.5% Then the Democratic Party shoved centrist status quo candidate Hillary Clinton down the party's throat and Iowans looking for fundamental change turned to Trump. A strong Democratic district turned red, or, at best, purple. Trump beat Hillary in IA-01. In 2014 when Democrat Bruce Braley gave up the congressional seat for an ill-fated Senate run, multimillionaire Republican wing nut Rod Blum won the seat and kept it in 2016 thanks to DCCC interference. It took the anti-red wave of 2018 to dislodge him-- despite another worthless DCCC/EMILY's List candidate, state Rep. Abby Finkenauer (an unaccomplished joke in the state legislature).Finkenauer immediately established herself as a waste of a seat--worthless in the House as she had been in Iowa's state legislature, a pointless backbencher happy to do nothing at all. She quickly ran up an "F"-graded voting record, worse than the records of many Blue Dogs and New Dems. Stephanie Murphy is the chief Blue Dog and even her record is slightly better than Finkenauer's!No one noticed her until she endorsed Status Quo Joe a couple of months ago. His pathetic and clueless campaign aggressively promoted the anti-charismatic Finkenauer as "Biden's AOC." Laughably, while AOC was helping to draw hundreds and even thousands to Bernie rallies, Finkenauer rarely brought in more than a dozen people to Biden events. She was as colossal a failure in her own district as she was in DC.That became more than obvious on caucus day, when Biden was gutted like a fish across her district. There are 20 counties in the district, although most of the voters live in the 3 bluest counties-- Linn (Cedar Rapids), Dubuque and Black Hawk (Waterloo). Below are all the counties in descending order of voting population and how the candidates with 15% of more of the vote fared (SDE-wise) in each county.
Linn• Bernie- 5,274 (28.4%)• Mayo- 4,571 (24.6%)• Elizabeth- 3,912 (21.0%)• Biden- 2,813 (15.1%)Blackhawk
• Bernie- 3,070 (31.5%)• Mayo- 2,182 (22.4%)• Biden- 1,697 (17.4)• Elizabeth- 1,677 (17.2%)Dubuque
• Mayo- 2,160 (29.9%)• Bernie- 1,680 (23.2%)• Biden- 1,653 (22.9%)• Elizabeth- 1,093 (15.1%)Marshall
• Bernie- 816 (34.0%)• Mayo- 672 (28.0%)• Biden- 512 (21.3%)Benton
• Biden- 465 (31.0%)• Mayo- 435 (29.0%)• Bernie- 353 (23.5%)Bremer
• Mayo- 567 (33.3%)• Elizabeth- 363 (21.3%)• Biden- 317 (18.6%)• Klobuchar- 272 (16.0%)Winneshiek
• Mayo- 486 (30.4%)• Klobuchar- 397 (24.8%)• Bernie- 333 (20.8%)• Elizabeth- 269 (16.8%)Jones
• Mayo- 368 (30.7%)• Biden- 256 (21.3%)• Bernie- 256 (21.3%)• Klobuchar- 208 (17.3%)Jackson
• Mayo- 377 (31.4%)• Biden- 309 (25.8%)• Klobuchar- 189 (15.8)Buchanan
• Biden- 383 (29.8%)• Mayo- 342 (26.6%)• Klobuchar- 219 (17.0%)Poweshiek
• Bernie- 504 (36.0%)• Elizabeth- 392 (28.0%)• Klobuchar- 210 (15.0%)Fayette
• Mayo- 432 (36.0%)• Biden- 264 (22.0%)• Bernie- 180 (15.0%)Clayton
• Mayo- 367 (38.0%)• Klobuchar- 217 (22.4%)• Bernie- 183 (18.9%)• Biden- 167 (17.3%)Iowa
• Mayo- 260 (26.0%)• Elizabeth- 260 (26.0%)• Bernie- 240 (24.0%)• Biden- 200 (20.0%)Delaware
• Mayo- 248 (27.5%)• Klobuchar- 218 (24.2%)• Elizabeth- 195 (21.6%)• Biden- 188 (20.8%)Tama
• Bernie- 298 (28.4%)• Mayo- 285 (27.2%)• Biden- 220 (21.0%)Allamakee
• Mayo- 233 (36.1%)• Klobuchar- 140 (21.7%)• Bernie- 101 (15.6%)Mitchell
• Klobuchar- 180 (35.2%)• Mayo- 113 (22.1%)• Biden- 90 (17.6%)Howard
• Mayo- 171 (34.2%)• Biden- 100 (20.0%)• Bernie- 86 (17.2%)Worth
• Klobuchar- 120 (27.3%)• Mayo- 87 (19.8%)• Bernie- 73 (16.6%)
And district-wide, what did Finkenauer do for Biden? Not much if anything, the SDEs for all the top candidates:
• Mayo- 14,356• Bernie- 13,447• Biden- 9,634• Elizabeth- 8,361• Klobuchar- 2,190
These calculations are based on the official party reports accounting for 96.43% of caucus goers. Status quo Joe and Elizabeth are battling it out to see who will be in third place and who will be in fourth place. He probably would have done better without Finkenauer's kiss of death endorsement.Just wait 'til he gets to the suburbs east of Sacramento, where he was endorsed by spineless and despised lesser-of-two evils incumbent Ami Bera, whose elderly father in rotting in prison for taking the rap for one of Bera's fund-raising frauds. Or to Massachusetts, where two collossally unpopular members of Congress, conservatives Stephen Lynch and Seth Moulton have both endorsed him. Worse yet, in Oregon he has been endorsed by political pariah right-wing Blue Dog Kurt Schrader-- the only House Democrat opposing the pro-labor legislation pending before the House this week. Fun weeks ahead for Team Biden!Kurt Schrader: The face of Biden's Oregon effortsBob Lefsetz is probably the most incisive critic of the American music business. This week he also took a swing at Status Quo Joe's crumbling campaign. "One thing’s for sure," he wrote; "Biden’s toast. But how could this be? For months we’ve endured polls, talking heads, telling us he was the leader and the people’s choice, the man with experience shooting right up the middle. But it turns out that’s not what people wanted at all."
So, the pollsters got it wrong. Oh, there was that Des Moines Register poll that was canceled that was supposedly more accurate, and I’m sure Nate Silver and the rest of the experts will weasel once again and tell us how they really got it right, but they didn’t. Turns out it’s not only government that is out of touch with the public, but the pollsters and the media too.It all comes down to if you’re winning. If the present environment is working for you, you want no change.But it turns out the present environment isn’t working for most of America.Let’s start with Trump. The same media outlets and pollsters failed to see the disharmony that led to the Donald’s election, they convinced us, even him, that his campaign was a sideshow, a way for Trump to burnish his brand, to start a TV network, to get richer. Little did we expect that he would use the Presidency to get richer.And on the other side you’ve got Bernie. According to Hillary Clinton, an evil hatemonger who refuses to play well with others. Meanwhile, Bernie almost deposed the anointed Hillary in 2016 and it appears he’s gonna run to the roses this year. Turns out most of the populace is not happy with business as usual.Let’s talk about the Clintons. Sure, they were eviscerated by the right, but they also used their position to get rich, even Chelsea has gotten rich, she’s even wealthier than Hunter Biden! But sucking up to Wall Street and the rest of the billionaires was de rigueur, because everybody else did it. You needed their money to win. But Bernie didn’t take a dime from the usual suspects and this time around he’s raised more money than anybody!... [T]he Democrats have no center. It’s a big party under a big tent but a self-serving cabal runs it and they don’t want any change. Now that Bernie Sanders is a distinct possibility the truth has finally come out, those in power, at the DNC, don’t want any change, no different from the Grammys. You see a new guy is gonna come in, who gets to choose the head of the party and…a lot of people are gonna lose their influence, if not their jobs.So, America doesn’t appear that different from Afghanistan, some other tribal country.... [E]ssentially no one is alive who remembers when America was a second-class nation. Everybody thinks the U.S. of A. is the greatest country in the world, it cannot be defeated.As for Vietnam and Iraq, the belief is the agitators undermined us and if we just gave the armed forces and Dick Cheney and the other rulers carte blanche, we would have won again.Only that doesn’t take into account hearts and minds. The North Vietnamese were willing to sacrifice everything for the cause. And the truth is so many of the losers in today’s society feel the same way. They’re sick of billionaires, sick of kowtowing to the rich, they want some power.Which is how Trump got elected. He represented change.Hillary was damaged goods offering business as usual.Just like Joe Biden.But the insiders tell us we must nominate someone safe in order to win in November, we must sacrifice all our beliefs, all our interests, for a greater good…which would only benefit the entrenched. Which brings up the question why bother to vote at all?A huge slice of the public never does. Many because they believe there will be no difference. And after living through twenty five years of tech innovation they know that change can happen overnight, if people choose to make it happen. They also know that techies run circles around D.C., elected officials don’t understand tech, never mind regulate tech.But all we hear from insiders is how dumb the populace is.But that’s because they don’t understand it’s not about issues so much as emotions.Oh, the Republicans always focus on a divisive issue, but the Democrats…Hillary Clinton fake smiled, just like old Joe, and no one bought it, they didn’t speak to your soul, they were controlled by those with the cash.Globalization is here to stay. What’s your answer to that?Trump’s is to promise impossibilities as he engages in trade wars. No, manufacturing is not coming back to America, and coal mining won’t boom. Instead of providing false hope, why don’t you give the disenfranchised a roadmap as well as a safety net as opposed to service jobs that don’t put food on the table, never mind a roof over your head.This is why Bernie is resonating, because it’s crooked and you’re screwed. Everybody knows this, it’s just the winners don’t want to admit they’ve bent the system to their satisfaction, they just tell others to pull up their bootstraps, it’s easy, everyone can be a millionaire, even though you can’t get into a good college because they’ve paid for slots, with either bribes or buildings, and have had their kids tutored and… It would be like trying to become a coder in a school without computers, it can’t be done.I’m not saying a whole hell of a lot new here, I’m just wondering when the powers-that-be are gonna wake up and admit what’s going on.Add up the numbers. Put Sanders and Warren together and…It appears the public wants radical change.But what does the media do? Concoct a phony war between them.Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi steals Trump’s thunder by ripping up his speech. He wouldn’t shake her hand and she took revenge. And owns the news cycle.Sometimes you’ve got to test the limits, sometimes you have to push the envelope, sometimes you have to throw decorum out the window, sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.But all the left can do is respond to the talking points of the right, as opposed to leading.Which is one reason Mayor Pete can’t win. Do you think people are gonna buy his phony smile? He appears devious, and he’s selling nothing other than himself. It’s like he constructed his campaign on a computer. Let’s see, where’s the best slot, somewhere between Bernie and Biden, if you can believe in this guy, you probably went to Harvard and worked at McKinsey yourself.Meanwhile, if you didn’t go to an Ivy, good luck getting that gig at McKinsey. As for the funds, they load your employer up with debt, take their investment and profits out first and you’re left holding the bag.But you’re supposed to laud them because they’re rich.The old America is dead. The internet proved that those telling us what was going on had no clue. Meanwhile, the rich on the left and right, the elites, rigged the game to their advantage, telling the less fortunate that it was just luck they lost out, that there was nothing they could do about it.So, the public wants its revenge.Any Democrat can beat Trump if the party just gets behind the nominee. Instead, the DNC keeps going on about who’s electable.You know who is electable?THE ONE THAT WINS!
