The Bob Cesca Podcast: Super Tuesday

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show, powered by 770GOODLAW, H.Q. (Alex) Nguyen Law Firm, LLC:

Super Tuesday — NSFW! Buzz Burbank from Buzz Burbank News and Comment is here; Super Tuesday; All the polls are wrong; Biden vs Bernie; The Warren and Bloomberg effect; Biden’s potential electoral votes; Bernie’s potential electoral votes; The vulnerabilities of Biden and Bernie; Mark Kelly leading Martha McSally in Arizona; Don’t get happy; The Dow’s dead cat bounce; Coronavirus and Mike Pence; Trump doesn’t know what a vaccine does; With music by Pasha Black and Project Leavesden; and more!

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400 comments

TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 4:21:31pm

Got CL’d just after writing:

Here’s hoping my brethren in the Tar Heel state will give Biden an early call at 7:30. Kind of weird being in the midst of Trump World here in Western NC. We had no signs out for the presidential primary, or for any Democrats running in a statewide primary. Gotta believe that has been vastly different in the big cities and Asheville, the lone Democratic enclave in the western part of the Tar Heel state.

Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 4:22:14pm

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 4:23:01pm

Feel the Bern…

The current CBS News delegate estimate shows that Biden has taken the lead in the delegate count for the first time in the primary. https://t.co/dejxP1swQq pic.twitter.com/oKGQDxL5gp

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 4, 2020

And, from downstairs

Per Virginia exits, Biden won black voters, white college voters, and white non-college voters. https://t.co/ThymbYEvhL

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 4, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:23:33pm

Holy crap. pic.twitter.com/PjYmqMEmoA

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) March 4, 2020

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 4:24:12pm

Maybe he could donate his pay to the Secret Service. To offset all the tax dollars they have to spend at his properties

— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 3, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:24:40pm

Imagine being this white https://t.co/kJFStxsfs8

— P A C E (@pesachlattin) March 3, 2020

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 4:24:53pm

re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Feel the Bern…

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Exit polls show Biden clearing 15% viability in Vermont. We’ll see if that holds, but if so that’s a big blow to Sanders. He swept all 16 delegates there in ‘16.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 4, 2020

b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:24:58pm

I wouldn’t want to be around Bloomberg tonight.

Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 4:24:59pm

I’ll take Biden’s “gaffes” over Trump’s infantile insults any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:25:53pm

I asked Pence why the Coronavirus briefing is off camera today. He said he believes the briefing will be back on cam tomorrow. https://t.co/zUewMS69ET

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 3, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:26:29pm

Your Super Tuesday poll close cheat sheet via @CNN:

7:00p ET:
Vermont, Virginia

7:30p ET:
North Carolina

8:00p ET:
Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee

8:30p ET:
Arkansas

9:00p ET:
Colorado, Minnesota, Texas

10:00p ET:
Utah

11:00p ET:
California

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) March 3, 2020

Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 4:26:40pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why not today?

The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 4:26:45pm

LIVE WARREN RALLY!!!!

LIVE: Sen. Warren speaks to supporters in Detroit, Michigan on Super Tuesday https://t.co/NQMNrozxL3

— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 4, 2020

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:27:30pm

re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Feel the Bern…

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Which means tomorrow, all talk about “plurality should get nomination” ends. Wonder what BS talking point Bernie is gonna come up with now to argue that the DNC is obligated to give him the nomination.

Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 4:28:00pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I don’t some may decry it as pandering, but he is going to have to make a significant nod in the direction of blacks, and when I say have to, I mean it would be idiotic for him not to.

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:28:31pm

Fauci has to tamp down on vaccine expectations which causes the President to ask him to talk about therapeutics pic.twitter.com/gUrOVs0l8H

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 3, 2020

Fauci then jumps in front to reiterate that a vaccine is still 12-18 months from being available to anyone. https://t.co/VHkgWmYjaN

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 3, 2020

b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:28:52pm

re: #12 Ace Rothstein

Why not today?

Cameraman out sick?

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:30:20pm

Hopefully tonight puts to rest much of the worries of a contested convention, much as it did 2016.

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:30:45pm

The death toll has risen to 25 in tornadoes that struck Tennessee overnight, as rescuers search for bodies in shattered neighborhoods of Nashville and other parts of the state. One twister wrecked homes and businesses across a 10-mile stretch of Nashville. https://t.co/FOK20aFdP1

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 4, 2020

TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 4:31:00pm

Yes, this Tar Heel is proud of his home state! Early call for Biden.

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 4:31:04pm

CBS News projects Joe Biden wins the North Carolina primary https://t.co/dejxP1swQq pic.twitter.com/7D0EorP5TF

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 4, 2020

Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 4:31:55pm

re: #9 Ace Rothstein

I’ll take Biden’s “gaffes” over Trump’s infantile insults any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

I’ll take Biden’s gaffes over killing foreign leaders just because.

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:32:02pm

re: #20 TarHellion

Yes, this Tar Heel is proud of his home state! Early call for Biden.

“HOW CAN THEY CALL THE STATE BEFORE ANY VOTES HAVE BEEN COUNTED?! RIGGED!!!!”

The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 4:32:12pm

We should have a thread of the Warren rally.

Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 4:32:35pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

Azar must have woke up this morning with a horse head in his bed.

b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:33:14pm

ALL THESE DAMN VOTERS PLOTTING AGAINST BERNIE!!!!

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:33:55pm

Biden at 57% in Henrico, 55% in Chesterfield, 50% in Arlington. This is an absolute shellacking - at this rate, VA alone could offset a slim Sanders margin in CA.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 4, 2020

Hecuba's daughter Mar 3, 2020 • 4:34:36pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

“HOW CAN THEY CALL THE STATE BEFORE ANY VOTES HAVE BEEN COUNTED?! RIGGED!!!!”

Not that it’s rigged, but please, let some votes be counted — like maybe at least half the state — before declaring victory for a candidate based on 0% tabulated results.

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:35:52pm

Ha hah. No. https://t.co/v8KWDo0eOw

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 4, 2020

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 4:37:36pm

Feel
The
Bern
…

North Carolina was the one Southern primary Bernieworld was feeling good about, before the moderates consolidated, pointing to his 41% share there in 2016.

Early exits have him at 24% there tonight. #SuperTuesday

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 4, 2020

b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:38:29pm

Even if Bernie wins California big it won’t make the news until after a lot of the country has gone to bed after seeing the Biden wave.

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:38:56pm

re: #30 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Feel
The
Bern
…

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Look at all the people he’s bringing into the party.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:40:01pm

Texas is having trouble with voting machines breaking down. In my voting place, they had more voting machines on the republican side and more workers. They had hardly anyone voting while the democrats were waiting an hour or more to vote with less voting machines.

— Beverly Hill (@HillBeverlyhill) March 3, 2020

b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:40:22pm

The moron who hired Andrew Yang as a CNN pundit has a lot of explaining to do.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:40:49pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Fuck, that’s gonna fuel conspiracies regardless of outcome.

Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 4:41:33pm

Left on the last thread:

re: #69 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Well we think she is great, but the votes haven’t been there for her so far, speaking as a white professional with a graduate degree.

Same here as a white military retiree with a high school diploma.

goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 4:42:21pm

Is there a term where the thing society thinks will save it from the pandemic is inadvertently turned into a transmission vector?

Because that may be what’s happening as people cram into stores and all traverse the same aisles searching for hand sanitizer

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 4, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:42:56pm

Joe Biden got 66% of the black vote in Virginia and I dare anyone of y’all to call my momma a low information voter.

— Corey Richardson (@vexedinthecity) March 4, 2020

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:43:01pm

I’m simultaneously feeling two things:

I’m really happy that Biden’s doing so well!!

I really, REALLY want Elizabeth Warren as President!!!

TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 4:43:19pm

Bloomberg wins American Samoa! Woohoo! and Tulsi second! They should just move there.

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:44:14pm

re: #37 goddamnedfrank

But at least nobody at Costco was shaking hands with people they met. Though some were still standing in line for the free samples.

b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:45:08pm

re: #40 TarHellion

Bloomberg wins American Samoa! Woohoo! and Tulsi second! They should just move there.

/s

Mike had 7 full time staff in American Samoa. Heckava trophy for you there to leave with Mike.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:45:13pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

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His momma and my momma voted the same way.

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:45:49pm

re: #37 goddamnedfrank

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It’s why supermarkets are actually listed just after hospitals and police stations as places to avoid in a zombie apocalypse according to The Zombie Survival Guide. Not only is it likely to be jam-packed with panicking morons in the event of an outbreak, but most generally have a lot of glass windows to highlight the food inside…which is what you become to the walking dead in a zombie apocalypse.

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:46:03pm

Holy shit, what a switch from just a week ago, when they were wondering if anyone could beat Bernie.

If Biden can win TX and keep CA within single digits, he’ll likely exit Super Tuesday with a delegate lead that’s close to insurmountable.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 4, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:46:47pm

Walked into Roscoe’s under the picture of President Obama’s historic visit here to a roaring welcome! With @KarenBassTweets and @mgipson2014. @JoeBiden knows LA and LA knows Joe. pic.twitter.com/jDnQCoZavO

— Eric Garcetti (@ericgarcetti) March 4, 2020

Rightwingconspirator Mar 3, 2020 • 4:46:58pm

Quick drive by. The wife reports a line a block long in NoHo to vote. Good sign. Most are not off work yet. We have early voting and by mail here. So, good turnout.

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:48:49pm

re: #45 Blind Frog Belly White

Holy shit, what a switch from just a week ago, when they were wondering if anyone could beat Bernie.

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A week ago, it was “If the field doesn’t narrow down soon, Bernie’s gonna come out of Super Tuesday with a lead that may be impossible to beat!”

A week hence, it’s “Bernie may mathematically eliminated tonight!”

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:48:50pm

North Carolina and Virginia take away all the Flawed arguments about Biden only winning red states.

— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) March 4, 2020

TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 4:49:08pm

re: #47 Rightwingconspirator

Excuse my redneck ignorance but where is NoHo?

Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 4:49:20pm

My bookie had Trump at -200 to win the election which is an absurdly high number. There is no way in hell Trump is a 66% favorite. Before I got a chance to hammer Biden at +150 (40%) he took the numbers down.

stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 4:49:42pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

Geez, I didn’t even know Bernie was in St. Paul tonight. I wonder if he knows the difference between St. Paul and Minneapolis?

retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 4:50:03pm

re: #50 TarHellion

Excuse my redneck ignorance but where is NoHo?

Guessing, North Hollywood?

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 4:50:29pm

re: #48 Targetpractice

A week hence, it’s “Bernie may mathematically eliminated tonight!”

And like last time, he’s going to stay in and inflict as much damage as possible.

TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 4:50:57pm

re: #51 Ace Rothstein

Bought Biden to win presidency at 35 cents tonight on Predictit. Gotta believe he’ll run up toward 50 at some point before November.

I Would Prefer Not To Mar 3, 2020 • 4:51:30pm

re: #45 Blind Frog Belly White

If Biden can win TX and keep CA within single digits, he’ll likely exit Super Tuesday with a delegate lead that’s close to insurmountable.

insurmontable = Bernie drops out in June (complains until the end of time).

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:52:06pm

re: #45 Blind Frog Belly White

Holy shit, what a switch from just a week ago, when they were wondering if anyone could beat Bernie.

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Wasserman read my mind.

Remember when we spent weeks debating whether Sanders would build an insurmountable delegate lead on Super Tuesday? We were talking about the wrong candidate.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 4, 2020

TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 4:52:25pm

re: #53 retired cynic

Thanks. Charlotte has an area they call NoDa, which mean North Davidson Avenue to the locals. To everyone else, it is ?????

Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 4:52:31pm

re: #55 TarHellion

Easily.

The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 4:52:44pm

DROP OUT ALREADY YOU FREAKING KREMLIN TOOL.

Tulsi Gabbard in Detroit expresses concern about DNC squashing will of voters: Democrats are headed for “brokered covention,” where super delegates will determine nominee, “which is what I’m concerned about…This is not what democracy is supposed to be about.” pic.twitter.com/R9P9NNVHSG

— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) March 4, 2020

unproven innocence Mar 3, 2020 • 4:53:07pm

re: #39 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m simultaneously feeling two things:

I’m really happy that Biden’s doing so well!!

I really, REALLY want Elizabeth Warren as President!!!

I think 4 years as Biden’s VP would be great for Warren. Fingers crossed.

goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 4:53:34pm

Leave it to @NicolleDWallace to say the truth: “Establishment” Democrats would‘ve left Biden for dead if he’d failed in South Carolina. It was black voters - men & women of every age - who gave Biden’s campaign life.

Exactly. And Democratic voters elsewhere sat up & took notice.

— (((antiantisemite))) (@Tristanshouts) March 3, 2020

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:53:47pm

re: #58 TarHellion

Thanks. Charlotte has an area they call NoDa, which mean North Davidson Avenue to the locals. To everyone else, it is ?????

Yeah, and we have SOMA, where SFMOMA is….

b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 4:54:10pm

re: #60 The Pie Overlord!

DROP OUT ALREADY YOU FREAKING KREMLIN TOOL.
I really do appreciate Hillary Clinton for ripping the mask off of Tulsi for all to see.

retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 4:54:12pm

re: #62 goddamnedfrank

Just like Obama in 2008

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 4:54:12pm

Russian stooge says what?

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 4, 2020

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:54:25pm

re: #61 unproven innocence

I think 4 years as Biden’s VP would be great for Warren. Fingers crossed.

Treasury

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:54:51pm

Texas:

Stay in line! Every vote counts.

Polls close in 20 minutes, so you can still vote as long as you’re in line before 7pm!#TX28 pic.twitter.com/9uPSeMnknY

— Jessica Cisneros (@JCisnerosTX) March 4, 2020

TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 4:54:51pm

re: #62 goddamnedfrank

And that’s exactly why Harris or Abrams will be his VP.

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:55:00pm

re: #66 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Careful! She’ll sue you!
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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:55:03pm

re: #62 goddamnedfrank

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Ayep. If he’d had a middling result or even lost SC, the calls for him to bow out would have been deafening.

The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 4:55:29pm

Ewww gross.

“I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her … I just start kissing them … Just kiss. I don’t even wait … you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy…”

Hey, Jumbo Don, don’t lick your dirty fingers. You’re an unsanitary danger to yourself and others. https://t.co/Rge78ZBIDq

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 4, 2020

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:55:50pm

re: #60 The Pie Overlord!

DROP OUT ALREADY YOU FREAKING KREMLIN TOOL.

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And we get a preview of what the Russian bots will be saying between now and the convention.

gocart mozart Mar 3, 2020 • 4:56:01pm

🤔 pic.twitter.com/dtV6Uv8tao

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 4, 2020

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 4:56:35pm

re: #74 gocart mozart

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A resounding success that Team Mike can be totally proud of tonight.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 4:57:25pm

The American myth of a meritocracy tells us the wealthy are the smartest arbiters of capital and Mike Bloomberg’s out here setting hundreds of millions of dollars on fire to win American Samoa and get publicly destroyed by Elizabeth Warren.

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) March 4, 2020

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:57:37pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

A resounding success that Team Mike can be totally proud of tonight.

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“Gimme Samoa Them Votes!”

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:57:45pm

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

THANK YOU NORTH CAROLINA! #KAG2020 pic.twitter.com/RPX0fqWmB1

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2020

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 4:58:19pm

re: #77 Blind Frog Belly White

“Gimme Samoa Them Votes!”

“Bloomberg wins Samoa!”

“Samoa what?”

Rightwingconspirator Mar 3, 2020 • 4:58:37pm

re: #50 TarHellion

Excuse my redneck ignorance but where is NoHo?

Ah sorry. North Hollywood Arts District, east San Fernando Valley CA.

Eventual Carrion Mar 3, 2020 • 4:58:39pm

re: #41 Blind Frog Belly White

But at least nobody at Costco was shaking hands with people they met. Though some were still standing in line for the free samples.

Best of Idiocracy - Welcome to Costco

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 4:59:00pm

re: #79 Blind Frog Belly White

“Bloomberg wins Samoa!”

“Samoa what?”

Samoa those Girl Scout cookies…

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 4:59:56pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

Samoa those Girl Scout cookies…

Mmmmmmm!!!

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:00:03pm

I can’t help it. This @nytimes update about “North Carolina” cheers at a Chicken and Waffle shop have me picturing a full Petey Pablo video. #NorthCarolina pic.twitter.com/bu5c2fggZs

— Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry) March 4, 2020

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 5:00:34pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gone. That was fast.

bratwurst Mar 3, 2020 • 5:00:45pm

Going to bookmark this tweet from Sanders supporter U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar from Feb. 27 https://t.co/O4RXKbGFFT

— Steven Lemongello (@SteveLemongello) March 4, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:01:15pm

re: #85 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Gone. That was fast.

refresh, she had a typo

stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 5:02:07pm

re: #47 Rightwingconspirator

Quick drive by. The wife reports a line a block long in NoHo to vote. Good sign. Most are not off work yet. We have early voting and by mail here. So, good turnout.

I voted after work and there were probably five times as many voting machines as voters. There were just enough volunteers there that nobody had to wait in line to sign in. I voted strategically instead of with my heart. I hope that it matters.

Hecuba's daughter Mar 3, 2020 • 5:02:25pm

re: #62 goddamnedfrank

Leave it to @NicolleDWallace to say the truth: “Establishment” Democrats would‘ve left Biden for dead if he’d failed in South Carolina. It was black voters - men & women of every age - who gave Biden’s campaign life.

Exactly. And Democratic voters elsewhere sat up & took notice.

— (((antiantisemite))) (@Tristanshouts) March 3, 2020

There were some objections downstairs to Nicole Wallace possibly taking over Hardball, given her past history as a Republican operative. But unlike some of the other Republicans that MSNBC/NBC has tried — Hugh Hewitt, Greta van Susteren, Megyn Kelly — in this age of Trump, she has shown herself to be a thoughtful host and analyst. I certainly would not object to her getting this chance. Of course, it would also be nice if Melissa Harris-Perry were brought back to host the show.

TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 5:02:30pm

re: #80 Rightwingconspirator

Thanks. Enjoyed my visit to the Los Angeles area 10 years ago. Even got to walk on the Dodger Stadium field. But you can keep the traffic!

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:03:45pm

re: #86 bratwurst

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I’m predicting right now that tomorrow will see the start of the calls that Bernie get the nomination because “The polls say he has a better chance of beating Trump and we need the best candidate as our nominee!”

GlutenFreeJesus Mar 3, 2020 • 5:04:51pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

They remained silent and just posed for photos.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 5:05:08pm

re: #89 Hecuba’s daughter

There were some objections downstairs to Nicole Wallace possibly taking over Hardball, given her past history as a Republican operative. But unlike some of the other Republicans that MSNBC/NBC has tried — Hugh Hewitt, Greta van Susteren, Megyn Kelly — in this age of Trump, she has shown herself to be a thoughtful host and analyst. I certainly would not object to her getting this chance. Of course, it would also be nice if Melissa Harris-Perry were brought back to host the show.

Is Megyn still on morning TV? Or did NBC shit can her?

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Mar 3, 2020 • 5:06:17pm

Evening Lizardim.

stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 5:06:21pm

re: #60 The Pie Overlord!

DROP OUT ALREADY YOU FREAKING KREMLIN TOOL.

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Notice that that photo doesn’t show her crowd. It looks like an empty room.

Hecuba's daughter Mar 3, 2020 • 5:07:47pm

re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Is Megyn still on morning TV? Or did NBC shit can her?

She’s gone and not a moment too soon.

Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 5:08:27pm

Black voters overwhelmingly saying NO to Bernie Sanders tonight. It’s almost embarrassing.

Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:08:42pm

It’s gotta be a pretty depressing mood at Bernie HQ right now. So far, only one state has been called for him, while two of the states called for Biden show him totally crushing the vote. Worse, those results show that Bernie’s “outreach” to black voters has fallen on deaf ears. About the only thing it looks like he’ll be able to celebrate tonight is taking California and even that might be disappointing if he can’t close out Biden.

Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Mar 3, 2020 • 5:09:48pm

Phoneposting from Huge line here in north Dallas suburbs. Got to the polling place over an hour ago and there are still easily over 200 people in front of me . Sticking it out to the end though.

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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:10:33pm

re: #97 Charles Johnson

Black voters overwhelmingly saying NO to Bernie Sanders tonight. It’s almost embarrassing.

Yeah, that’s another thing that starts tomorrow, the screaming by Bernie surrogates that black voters don’t understand just how much he’s done for them. “HE MARCHED WITH DR KING! HE SAT IN ON CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTS!! HOW CAN THEY BE SO UNGRATEFUL!?!”

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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:10:58pm

re: #99 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos

Phoneposting from Huge line here in north Dallas suburbs. Got to the polling place over an hour ago and there are still easily over 200 people in front of me . Sticking it out to the end though.

Did you bring enough gum for everyone?

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:11:10pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

Samoa those Girl Scout cookies…

Dern tootin’!

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gocart mozart Mar 3, 2020 • 5:11:36pm

Why I love the House Leadership despite her many claps and SotU stunts: stumping IN PERSON for an anti-abortion reactionary with an A rating from the NRA and who takes money from Koch-related PACs instead of just staying out of it. https://t.co/IzYo35mFJu

— The Left (@norbiznesss) March 3, 2020

Bloomberg drops out of race, commissions 800-foot tall statue of him to be placed at the port of Pago Pago, pointing out to the sea like the Colossus of Rhodes.

— The Left (@norbiznesss) March 4, 2020

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 5:12:12pm

Sanders is favored in California, but it’s by no means a sure thing for him. I wouldn’t be surprised to see another upset here.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Mar 3, 2020 • 5:13:06pm

re: #104 Charles Johnson

Sanders is favored in California, but it’s by no means a sure thing for him. I wouldn’t be surprised to see another upset here.

Sanders was, at one point, favored overall. As it turns out, just like in 2016, a vocal minority of supporters were rejected by the cold, hard reality: We just are not feeling the Bern.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:13:23pm

re: #104 Charles Johnson

Sanders is favored in California, but it’s by no means a sure thing for him. I wouldn’t be surprised to see another upset here.

He always seems to underperform.

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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:13:25pm

re: #104 Charles Johnson

Sanders is favored in California, but it’s by no means a sure thing for him. I wouldn’t be surprised to see another upset here.

The big worry before SC was that Bernie was gonna so dominate the vote there that every other candidate would be shut out. If Biden manages 15%, then it doesn’t matter how big a win Bernie manages otherwise, the story will be “Biden surges into the lead!”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 5:13:27pm

Zoom in on his dog tag Lmaoo https://t.co/CnOPLEcrd4

— StepMom Marie 🖤 (@mariebabyyyyy_) March 2, 2020

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 5:13:38pm

All the conventional tropes about elections are breaking down in the Trump/internet era.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:13:45pm

re: #101 Targetpractice

Did you bring enough gum for everyone?

//

“I…I didn’t know there’d be so many!”

*BANG*

(“Boy, is he strict!”)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Mar 3, 2020 • 5:13:49pm

re: #106 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He always seems to underperform.

I’m told old white men often have that problem.

/I’ll see myself out

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bratwurst Mar 3, 2020 • 5:13:59pm

re: #100 Targetpractice

Yeah, that’s another thing that starts tomorrow, the screaming by Bernie surrogates that black voters don’t understand just how much he’s done for them. “HE MARCHED WITH DR KING! HE SAT IN ON CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTS!! HOW CAN THEY BE SO UNGRATEFUL!?!”

Wait…you think that instead of buckling down and getting to work in the remaining states tomorrow, Bernie fans are going to spend the day whining and flinging poo at POC?

Why, that doesn’t sound like the Bernie fans I know!
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:14:59pm

re: #111 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’m told old white men often have that problem.

/I’ll see myself out

Ohhhhh!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:16:03pm

I feel bad for this Sanders surrogate on CNN. He has no idea how politics works.

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 5:16:56pm

538 projects Sanders to win 35% of the vote in California, Biden 25%. If it pans out like that, Biden’s going to be ahead in delegates.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:18:36pm

It’s been a hell of a (checks calendar) 3 days.

I wouldn’t be saying this if Biden were up by 20% in VA & 30% in AL. But, the reality is he’s up by 30% in VA, 40% in AL and he’s viable in VT. He’s steamrolling.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 4, 2020

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Jay C Mar 3, 2020 • 5:19:01pm

re: #61 unproven innocence

I think 4 years as Biden’s VP would be great for Warren. Fingers crossed.

Amen.
And since (one hopes) it’s likely that Uncle Joe is probably only going to serve one term, the No. 2 spot is going to be a big boost for whoever runs in ‘24.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:19:09pm

re: #111 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’m told old white men often have that problem.

/I’ll see myself out

#NotAllOldWhiteMen

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:19:36pm

re: #98 Targetpractice

It’s gotta be a pretty depressing mood at Bernie HQ right now. So far, only one state has been called for him, while two of the states called for Biden show him totally crushing the vote. Worse, those results show that Bernie’s “outreach” to black voters has fallen on deaf ears. About the only thing it looks like he’ll be able to celebrate tonight is taking California and even that might be disappointing if he can’t close out Biden.

And he won’t be able to celebrate that tonight because it takes a looong time for California to count the vote.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Mar 3, 2020 • 5:19:46pm

re: #118 Blind Frog Belly White

#NotAllOldWhiteMen

I did say “often”, not “always”. I’m leaving myself an out for when I get older, too.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:21:05pm

re: #117 Jay C

Amen.
And since (one hopes) it’s likely that Uncle Joe is probably only going to serve one term, the No. 2 spot is going to be a big boost for whoever runs in ‘24.

Stacy Abrams!

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calochortus Mar 3, 2020 • 5:21:16pm

re: #119 NO SMOCKING GUN!

And he won’t be able to celebrate that tonight because it takes a looong time for California to count the vote.

If you mailed your ballot by today, you have until this Friday for it to arrive to be counted. Final totals will take a while.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:21:30pm

re: #120 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I did say “often”, not “always”. I’m leaving myself an out for when I get older, too.

(I was just playing on the fragile male “#NotAllMen” thing from last year.)

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:21:40pm

WTAF

Opened a text from the Trump campaign to take their Super Tuesday exit poll and woo boy pic.twitter.com/ixXxfTctQP

— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) March 4, 2020

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:22:03pm

re: #122 calochortus

If you mailed your ballot by today, you have until this Friday for it to arrive to be counted. Final totals will take a while.

Mrs. FBW dropped ours in the mail today.

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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:22:05pm

re: #116 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s been a hell of a (checks calendar) 3 days.

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Friday night, the talk was all about how Bernie might surprise in SC and Biden’s firewall might fail.

Saturday night, the talk was about how the crowded moderate “lane” meant Bernie might still do awesome on Tuesday and take an insurmountable lead.

And the following two nights were all about the chaos that a consolidated moderate field meant for the polls.

That’s how quickly a primary season can go from “[insert candidate] is a lock for the nomination!” to “[same candidate] is pretty much out of the race after tonight!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 5:22:22pm

re: #114 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I feel bad for this Sanders surrogate on CNN. He has no idea how politics works.

Neither does Bernie most times.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Mar 3, 2020 • 5:22:40pm

re: #123 Blind Frog Belly White

(I was just playing on the fragile male “#NotAllMen” thing from last year.)

I know, but my sarcasm filter is less good than most people’s and I can never be sure.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Mar 3, 2020 • 5:22:54pm

re: #127 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Neither does Bernie most times.

Jeez, the roast is brutal tonight.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:23:12pm

re: #121 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Stacy Abrams!

Yes Biden needs a young running mate. It’s not going to be Warren guys. I’m sorry but she just doesn’t look like a viable person for the presidency. Doesn’t mean we ignore her ideas but she’s not executive material to many voters.

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 5:23:18pm

Turns out you can’t buy the nomination after all.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

At least, not the Democratic nomination.

Everything is for sale in the Republican Party.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:23:22pm

re: #124 The Pie Overlord!

WTAF

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“Who will win in November? President Trump, or a Big Government Socialist? But I repeat myself..”

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:23:40pm

re: #127 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Neither does Bernie most times.

Ha! True but I don’t feel bad for him.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:24:18pm

re: #128 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I know, but my sarcasm filter is less good than most people’s and I can never be sure.

Dood. It’s me. Assume sarcasm.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:24:38pm

If I were Biden, I would at least extend feelers to Michelle Obama to see if she had any interest in joining the ticket. Then Stacy Abrams!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Mar 3, 2020 • 5:25:06pm

re: #134 Blind Frog Belly White

Dood. It’s me. Assume sarcasm.

Surely you can’t be serious.

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stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 5:25:08pm

re: #130 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yes Biden needs a young running mate. It’s not going to be Warren guys. I’m sorry but she just doesn’t look like a viable person for the presidency. Doesn’t mean we ignore her ideas but she’s not executive material to many voters.

Warren is going to be a smash wherever she winds up in a new democratic administration.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 5:25:28pm

re: #124 The Pie Overlord!

Trump is a big government socialist. He’s used BIG GOVERNMENT for bankruptcy protection five times.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 5:25:28pm

Good luck with that.

— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 4, 2020

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sagehen Mar 3, 2020 • 5:25:44pm

re: #63 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, and we have SOMA, where SFMOMA is….

In addition to SoHo (south of Houston) and Tribeca (triangle below Canal), we have DUMBO (down under Manhattan Bridge overpass).

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:26:29pm

re: #135 NO SMOCKING GUN!

If I were Biden, I would at least extend feelers to Michelle Obama to see if she had any interest in joining the ticket. Then Stacy Abrams!

Michelle has repeatedly declined interest in a political career from what I’ve seen.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 5:26:43pm

re: #141 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Forever my lady…

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:26:59pm

re: #136 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Surely you can’t be serious.

I am Sirius., and stop calling me Shirley.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:27:03pm

re: #141 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Michelle has repeatedly declined interest in a political career from what I’ve seen.

I know, but a guy can dream!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:27:08pm

re: #137 stpaulbear

Warren is going to be a smash wherever she winds up in a new democratic administration.

Yeah I just don’t think it will be VP. Treasury secretary?

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Jay C Mar 3, 2020 • 5:27:13pm

re: #132 Blind Frog Belly White

“Who will win in November? President Trump, or a Big Government Socialist? But I repeat myself..”

I wonder if someone could troll the poll to give “Big Government Socialist” a solid - say, 55-45 - lead…?

Though I’m not really sure that wouldn’t be the results of an “unbiased” poll as well.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:27:32pm

re: #142 Ace Rothstein

Forever my lady…

My favorite FLOTUS.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 5:28:25pm

In 19th century English, LOCOFOCOISM was the advocacy of progressive principles like universal equality, opposition to monopolies, and the rooting out of vested interests in politics.

— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) February 27, 2020

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 5:28:29pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

A resounding success that Team Mike can be totally proud of tonight.

/////

He beat Toolsi!

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:30:01pm

re: #149 Joe Bacon 🌹

He beat Toolsi!

I spent half a billion dollars, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 5:30:39pm

re: #105 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Sanders was, at one point, favored overall. As it turns out, just like in 2016, a vocal minority of supporters were rejected by the cold, hard reality: We just are not feeling the Bern.

I got BERNED by his disciples…

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:30:41pm

No one should have to wait three hours to vote. No one in white suburbs is waiting three hours. https://t.co/qK4oQkG4qT

— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) March 3, 2020

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 5:31:55pm

By the way… media? Some of us see how you’ve minimized, ignored, and disappeared the women in this election.

The super-rich may not be able to buy the election, but institutional sexism and racism still has a rather large effect.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:32:16pm

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That there is why I want Abrams for VP

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sagehen Mar 3, 2020 • 5:32:23pm

re: #76 goddamnedfrank

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He’s setting hundreds of millions of dollars on fire to trash Trump on TV 24-7; and to finance Stacy Abrams’ voter registration efforts.

None of his ads have criticized any of the Dem contenders; and the only D he’s spoken of disparagingly in interviews or debates is Bernie.

If Biden wins, Bloomberg will consider that money well spent.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 5:32:29pm

Just heard on MSNBC, that, with 1% reporting, MA has Biden in the lead.

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stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 5:32:53pm

re: #149 Joe Bacon 🌹

He beat Toolsi!

She can use that 29% as a reason to not drop out. 29% is a big percentage!

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:33:00pm

Fingers crossed. The Biden coalition will look like a mixture of decent Americans who care deeply about our institutions. Or, as Bernie calls it, “the establishment.” Or, as Trump calls it, “the deep state.” https://t.co/Eq3AqTJS9I

— Bong Hits for Anti-Populism (@jerweber) March 4, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:34:41pm

re: #156 Belafon

Just heard on MSNBC, that, with 1% reporting, MA has Biden in the lead.

It could be an artifact of an unrepresentative sample, but it sure looks like Biden is running well everywhere.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 3, 2020 • 5:35:28pm

re: #150 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I spent half a billion dollars, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!

Bloomberg thought that (1) Biden would flame out, (2) the other moderates would stay in, and (3) Elizabeth would be giving Bernie a run for his money. Bernie and Biden were the only two with strong national name recognition.

I do have to say that at dinner last night, the Bernie supporter who has many politically aware Bernie supporting friends was astounded when I suggested that Bernie supporters were doing a Bernie-or-Bust thing. She said everyone she knew was voting blue no matter who.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 5:35:31pm

Dallas County, TX (early vote):

Biden 27%
Sanders 25%
Bloomberg 20%
Warren 11%
Buttigieg 9%

If Biden won the early vote there, it’s a good omen for his prospects statewide.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 4, 2020

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sagehen Mar 3, 2020 • 5:35:52pm

re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Is Megyn still on morning TV? Or did NBC shit can her?

Fired pretty quickly; but with an ENORMOUS pay or play contract walked off with tens of millions of dollars.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:36:31pm

One of the reasons there’s such long lines in Texas is that state closed 750 polling places after Supreme Court gutted Voting Rights Act

50 counties that gained most Black & Latino residents between 2012-2018 closed 542 polling sites pic.twitter.com/7PUiBfrMDH

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 4, 2020

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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:36:58pm

Tomorrow we watch as all those Berners who were totally Democrats if Bernie won the nomination stand up and declare that if the party won’t nominate him, then they’re no longer Democrats.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:37:43pm

re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter

Bloomberg thought that (1) Biden would flame out, (2) the other moderates would stay in, and (3) Elizabeth would be giving Bernie a run for his money. Bernie and Biden were the only two with strong national name recognition.

I do have to say that at dinner last night, the Bernie supporter who has many politically aware Bernie supporting friends was astounded when I suggested that Bernie supporters were doing a Bernie-or-Bust thing. She said everyone she knew was voting blue no matter who.

I saw an exit poll on the 538 blog that showed Bernie voters were only slightly more likely to be busters (15%) than Biden or Warren voters. Bloomberg voters were more likely to be busters (18%).

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 5:38:40pm

#Oklahoma Results (66% in)

Biden 27.5%
Sanders 21.7%
Bloomberg 18.2%
Warren 13.7%@DecisionDeskHQ

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) March 4, 2020

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 3, 2020 • 5:39:01pm

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

Alex Sammon
@alex_sammon
Hearing reports of 3+ hour lines in majority black and Latino neighborhoods in Harris County (Houston) TX.

This is outrageous. The Republican party has worked overtime at suppressing these votes and Texas certainly has a rich history of racism. Justice Roberts — you are a disgrace - if you hadn’t eviscerated the VRA, Texas could not get away with this.

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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:41:06pm

Certainly does not look like the youth vote is saving Bernie’s ass out there tonight.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 3, 2020 • 5:42:42pm

re: #108 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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And as I say to my female dog sometimes: bitches get scritches.

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 5:42:48pm

The media keeps showing long lines to vote as if it’s a good thing.

It isn’t. What you’re really seeing is how many people have been disenfranchised by deliberate limiting of their polling options.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 5:43:47pm

re: #159 NO SMOCKING GUN!

It could be an artifact of an unrepresentative sample, but it sure looks like Biden is running well everywhere.

If Biden is above 15% there when it’s over, it’s almost a win for him.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 5:43:58pm

re: #166 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA!!!!

He’ll love the wide open spaces!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:44:13pm

re: #168 Targetpractice

Certainly does not look like the youth vote is saving Bernie’s ass out there tonight.

They never were going to.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:44:38pm

You might not know, but we have some pretty bad roads here in Michigan, asks a member of @ewarren audience in Detroit. Of course I have a plan for that, she replied.

— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) March 4, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:45:18pm

re: #170 Charles Johnson

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Yeah. Granted I live in a small precinct but this should be quicker. This is also Roberts’ worst legacy.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 5:45:27pm

I’ll bet it was a real nail biter.

THANK YOU MAINE! #KAG2020 pic.twitter.com/gJ50FwOuj3

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 5:47:12pm

re: #176 The Pie Overlord!

I’ll bet it was a real nail biter.

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He’s so pathetic

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Mar 3, 2020 • 5:47:14pm

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Actually, across the state in urban and suburbs here in Texas I’m hearing of long wait lines pretty much everywhere. Where I am it’s pretty diverse middle class and I’m pushing 2 hours in line now. I’ll post a pic when I get home because uploading photos from my phone is a bit of a challenge fro a place with no wifi and only getting a 3g signal.

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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:47:43pm

re: #176 The Pie Overlord!

I’ll bet it was a real nail biter.

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Now now, let him have his petty victories, it’s been another hard day for him, watching the market tank what remains of his credibility.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:47:49pm

Still seeing long lines at LA polling places on my way to @MSNBC studio. https://t.co/3AzpdITtOY

— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) March 4, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 5:48:31pm

So I voted. Rather busy at the polling station. Lots of people returning their mail-in ballots too.

Yes, I voted for Biden. Never thought I would. But this was a protest vote against Sanders.

Also important were some local propositions, but these things never get the attention they need.

Of course the marking pens were just being passed around from person to person. Fortunately I always carry a few paper towels with me on these outings so one came of use here.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 5:49:15pm

re: #48 Targetpractice

A week ago, it was “If the field doesn’t narrow down soon, Bernie’s gonna come out of Super Tuesday with a lead that may be impossible to beat!”

A week hence, it’s “Bernie may mathematically eliminated tonight!”

I guess that means I don’t have to vote in the Nebraska Primary in May then, since it will be all over. /s

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stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 5:51:17pm

re: #176 The Pie Overlord!

I’ll bet it was a real nail biter.

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Someone with Twitter needs to reply to Trump with the number of votes he got versus the number of votes that Biden got.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:51:36pm

https://t.co/DysxKFa1vF
Callum Manning, people—check him out. Read THE SHINING in one day and got bullied for it. Hey, kiddo, I got bullied for reading, too. Rock on with your bad self.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 4, 2020

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Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 5:52:18pm

Biden up by 2 points in Texas, very early.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 5:52:18pm

“Permissible” is an interesting word in this context, and by interesting I mean terrifying. This keeps coming up too, I’d really like to read a deep dive on the whole process that explains why/how the CDC has such a fucking ironclad grip on testing.

Jesus, the outbreak around Seattle was only found bc enterprising researchers found a way to *get
around the CDC.*https://t.co/Zl4QTqLIP9 pic.twitter.com/IGy8CTdurl

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) March 3, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Mar 3, 2020 • 5:54:20pm

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

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gotta brag: my son who just turned 16 had read War and Peace and Don Quixote by the time he was 13. I don’t think he was bullied for that specifically. Just the caring about books thing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:56:03pm

This is Lux. He thinks your gingerbread house has been on display far too long. If you just move it a tad he can take care of that for you. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/GwmALKaEs5

— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 3, 2020

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Targetpractice Mar 3, 2020 • 5:56:47pm

re: #186 goddamnedfrank

“Permissible” is an interesting word in this context, and by interesting I mean terrifying. This keeps coming up too, I’d really like to read a deep dive on the whole process that explains why/how the CDC has such a fucking ironclad grip on testing.

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What frightens the fuck out of me is how many other cases like this have gone undiscovered because of that monopoly by the CDC.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:58:19pm

The Keebler Klan elf spews more fantasies https://t.co/A2V4TWv0pz

— Jake Turk (@71djt) March 3, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 5:59:25pm

As I’ve stated before: Women were imprisoned & tortured so that I could have the right to vote. Civil rights activists were beaten, and some were murdered, in their fight for black voters. I will not fail to vote so that I can pass an artificial test of my ability to be fair. https://t.co/N7kXN9FrlX

— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) March 3, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 6:00:59pm

A great reason to brush up on my Barry O impression #weknowjoe @JoeBiden @roscoesofficial @BarackObama @MichelleObama @WhenWeAllVote pic.twitter.com/6xkYctD9oV

— Keegan-Michael Key (@KeeganMKey) March 4, 2020

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gocart mozart Mar 3, 2020 • 6:01:23pm

Fuck Matt Stoller with a rusty three volume set of Das Kapital: Trustafarian Edition

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 3, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:02:19pm

re: #117 Jay C

Amen.
And since (one hopes) it’s likely that Uncle Joe is probably only going to serve one term, the No. 2 spot is going to be a big boost for whoever runs in ‘24.

When he started his campaign he said he would only serve one term, which concerned me. If he selects a thoughtful and competent running mate, that could turn out to be an advantage.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 6:02:32pm

re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He’s having fun.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 6:03:35pm

re: #189 Targetpractice

What frightens the fuck out of me is how many other cases like this have gone undiscovered because of that monopoly by the CDC.

I mean maybe there’s a really good rational basis for it, having to do with a strict need for process controls and the time it takes for certification. I just haven’t seen it put forward, and the labs being rejected are world fucking class, so exceptions to protocol could certainly have been proactively sought, given the nature of the emergency.

Like everything else in this administration this smells like a combination of incompetence and coverup, with a dash of grift for flava.

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retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 6:03:37pm

from Nate Silver on 538:

I think the Biden momentum narrative is overrated until we get more results from Texas and California. At the same time … there are a lot of theoretically Sanders-friendly states that have looked closer than you’d think based on early results, like Massachusetts and Maine. A Texas win coupled with his big margins in the rest of the South could also be a good scenario for Biden. So there’s just a liiiiiiitttle bit of a feeling of Election Night 2016, where we’re sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Maybe, anyway.

Election nights are long affairs, Micah, and resolutions are made to be broken. The thing for is, if Biden wins places like Massachusetts or Maine or Minnesota, plus all the states he’s supposed to win, that starts to look like a pretty bad night for Sanders, even if Sanders holds on by 2 points in Texas or something because early voting saved him.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 6:06:15pm

Bronner over at 538:

According to preliminary exit polls, Sanders is doing quite well among Latinos in Texas — though not quite as well as he did among Latinos in Nevada, where he garnered 50 percent in a more crowded field. But the share of the Democratic electorate that is Latinx didn’t increase since 2016 — maybe because Texas has open primaries and the Republican primary isn’t particularly interesting this year, so Republicans may be casting ballots in the Democratic race — so we don’t yet know whether Latino turnout will be high enough to help Sanders win the state. And like in other Southern states, Biden is doing very well among black voters, who make up 20 percent of the Texas Democratic electorate. (In fact, Biden’s lead among black Texan voters is larger than Sanders’s lead among Latinos.)

She seems to sidestep the obvious - that the Republicans who are voting in the Democratic primary may be voting for Bernie.

If ratfucking Republicans are going to vote for any Democrat, it will be Bernie.

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BigPapa Mar 3, 2020 • 6:08:41pm

re: #169 Barefoot Grin

And as I say to my female dog sometimes: bitches get scritches.

That would make a great shirt for my dog mom friends.

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TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 6:09:57pm

Note for North Carolina: Cal Cunningham easily winning primary, despite efforts of ratfornicating by the Republicans to boost one his opponents. Cunningham will have a good chance of knocking off Thom “Mr. Flip-Flop” Tillis in November.

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 6:10:11pm

Beginning to look like Biden is going to be neck and neck with Sanders in Texas. And that’s bad news for Bernie.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 3, 2020 • 6:11:09pm

Update:

Per MSNBC, Biden wins Tennessee
Per AP, Biden wins Oklahoma

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 4, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 6:11:42pm

re: #198 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Bronner over at 538:

She seems to sidestep the obvious - that the Republicans who are voting in the Democratic primary may be voting for Bernie.

If ratfucking Republicans are going to vote for any Democrat, it will be Bernie.

I feel like the ratfuck vote is probably self-canceling for the most part. In theory it could work, however in practice:

1.) People talk about it more than doing it
2.) That talk boosts turnout among the party faithful

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 6:11:52pm

Lasagna.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 6:11:59pm

re: #201 Charles Johnson

Sounds like a movie title: Bernie’s Bad News .

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TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 6:12:37pm

Wow! Double turnout from 2016 in Virginia.

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Jay C Mar 3, 2020 • 6:12:51pm

re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🎃

When he started his campaign he said he would only serve one term, which concerned me. If he selects a thoughtful and competent running mate, that could turn out to be an advantage.

Agree. And if elected, Joe Biden would be 83 years old on Inauguration Day in 2025 (born 11/30/1942): serving one term (and doing his damnedest to secure a solid Dem base for the 2024 election) will likely dispose of the “age issue” going in.

re: #193 gocart mozart.

Y’know, I kind of think Stoller is half-right here: if Biden beats Trump, the Republicans probably will become the “Party of the Working Class”. Except that the Democrats, far from being a “wealthy rump”, will actually be The Party Of Everybody Else. Since if it entails conflating “working class” with “prejudiced obsessive right-wingers” , it’s far more likely that THEY, not the Democrats, are going to end up (appropriately) as the “rump”…

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 6:13:00pm

re: #196 goddamnedfrank

I mean maybe there’s a really good rational basis for it, having to do with a strict need for process controls and the time it takes for certification. I just haven’t seen it put forward, and the labs being rejected are world fucking class, so exceptions to protocol could certainly have been proactively sought and given the nature of the emergency.

Like everything else in this administration this smells like a combination of incompetence and coverup, with a dash of grift for flava.

The problem with a homegrown test is lack of validation - false negative rate? False positive rate? detection level? Reproducibility? All these things CAN BE established, but it takes experimentation and then somebody has to review the results to make sure. Yeah, it sounds like a pain, but imagine the deployment of a test with a 30% false negative rate, or one with too high a threshold of detection.

If I had to guess, I’d say a combination of hubris - “We’ll have it fixed any day now!” and not wanting to review dozens of homebrew test kit validation data.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 6:13:33pm

re: #203 goddamnedfrank

At my voting place, many people in line didn’t have their little voting pamphlet with them identifying party affiliation. One such woman when asked which ballot she wanted seem to take a long time deciding which one she wanted.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 6:13:53pm

re: #206 TarHellion

Wow! Double turnout from 2016 in Virginia.

Early vote/Election day vote proportions?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 6:14:39pm

Since California is the big prize today, one thing we need to remember: there will be very many mail-in ballots and the final vote counts won’t be for a month.

So delegate totals will be provisional even by tomorrow morning.

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 6:15:52pm

I just have to say - I’m not really crazy about Joe Biden winning, either. I’ve had serious reservations about him from the start, and I still do.

This is gonna be a white-knuckler election.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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William Lewis Mar 3, 2020 • 6:16:14pm

re: #40 TarHellion

Bloomberg wins American Samoa! Woohoo! and Tulsi second! They should just move there.

/s

Didn’t they just have a major anti-vaxxer crisis out there too?

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TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 6:16:17pm

re: #210 Blind Frog Belly White

Sorry, just quoting what Kornacki said on MSNBC when looking at the Virginia vote. Not sure if it was from DC suburbs or overall.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 6:17:08pm

I see that the NYT just took Warren’s colors off the key for the US map. Previously her only hope to win was in MA, and now she’s in third place.

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TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 6:18:11pm

re: #213 William Lewis

Yes, they did back in December from what the Google engine says. Actually arrested the anti-vaxxer.

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gocart mozart Mar 3, 2020 • 6:18:50pm

Samoan Chief Fa’alagiga Nina Tua’au-Glaude Endorses Mike Bloomberg for President https://t.co/0c8CuIcqpn @Mike2020

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 4, 2020

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Ace-o-aces Mar 3, 2020 • 6:21:19pm

Today I learned that there has been an ongoing, 35 year-old debate over whether or not Martha Wayne (i.e. Batman’s mother) was wearing real pearls when she was killed. This has involved comic book nerds arguing over the manufacturing methods used in vintage women’s jewelry….seriously.

The issue has been addressed in the comics.https://t.co/7cxYlf5RAa

— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) March 3, 2020

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b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 6:21:22pm

re: #217 gocart mozart

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I wonder how many samolians it cost Bloomberg to get the Samoans?

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TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 6:22:49pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

Understandable. But there is one person left in the field who can win PA, MI, FL, NC, WI, AZ, IA, and OH, it is Biden. He’s not perfect. But he would be a return to normalcy to quote a thoroughly corrupt GOP president from the 1920s. In Biden’s case, it would be normalcy, He seems to be a decent - human - person. And that is what we so desperately need.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 6:23:09pm

re: #208 Blind Frog Belly White

If I had to guess, I’d say a combination of hubris - “We’ll have it fixed any day now!” and not wanting to review dozens of homebrew test kit validation data.

While not wanting to “run out of test kits” so they made the criteria strict as a bottleneck.

That makes total sense, in a dystopian kind of way.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:23:47pm

re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth

Dayum, that’s some serious radical centrism.

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Ace-o-aces Mar 3, 2020 • 6:24:31pm

pic.twitter.com/LLEdvQ5sFH

— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) March 4, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:25:28pm

re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth

Fuck ‘em up, Connie!

— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) March 4, 2020

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BigPapa Mar 3, 2020 • 6:26:58pm

A great reason to brush up on my Barry O impression #weknowjoe @JoeBiden @roscoesofficial @BarackObama @MichelleObama @WhenWeAllVote pic.twitter.com/6xkYctD9oV

— Keegan-Michael Key (@KeeganMKey) March 4, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 6:28:27pm

Today’s only Tuesday. It feels like Thursday.

Crap. This is going to be a long week.

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Dave In Austin Mar 3, 2020 • 6:34:11pm

Singing the Evening Owl song.#ESO #Owl #LakeTravis @maddow pic.twitter.com/emkWJFR0fo

— And the Wind Cries “THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) March 4, 2020

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Mar 3, 2020 • 6:36:49pm

re: #213 William Lewis

re: #216 TarHellion

That was the independent Republic of Samoa (formerly Western and British Samoa). American Samoa is smaller and about 60 miles east. Very interesting history from the 1918 flu pandemic there. The Spanish Flu Outbreak of 1918: A Tale of Two Samoas

In Western Samoa, the colonial administration was late in instituting a quarantine. The flu ran wild and killed 22% of the population, making it one of the hardest hit territories in the world. American Samoa, just 60 miles away, did not report a single death, thanks to a comprehensive quarantine instituted by the governor, Commander John Martin Poyer. (The US Navy ran the smaller Pacific island territories in those days).

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:37:45pm

It appears Sen. Sanders took only one county in Virginia after they doubled their voter turnout.

Sweet baby Jesus, we might save this democracy yet. https://t.co/H0fM6JaYte

— Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈 (@leahmcelrath) March 4, 2020

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 6:38:25pm

I still believe @ewarren would have been the best president out of this bunch, but the old white men are winning again.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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BigPapa Mar 3, 2020 • 6:38:34pm

My Twitter Bestie Chris:

As many of you know I was a massive supporter of Senator @KamalaHarris’ run for the Presidency.

She was the candidate I passionately felt had the most receipts for career long work of advocating for marginalized and vulnerable communities.

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) March 3, 2020

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stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 6:39:54pm

LOL. According to the WaPo, Amy Klobuchar won a county in Vermont. The breakdown is weird because it doesn’t show any votes for Bernie.

And Joe is ahead in MN. I’m REALLY surprised that Joe is ahead in Hennepin County (Mpls & suburbs). Not by much, but I thought Bernie would walk away with it.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:39:59pm

NBC just called Colorado for Sanders.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 6:39:59pm

re: #229 Anymouse 🌹🎃

It appears Sen. Sanders took only one county in Virginia after they doubled their voter turnout.

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That’s a sound rejection of him here. He did better four years ago.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 6:41:12pm

Amazing how “quid pro joe” starts appearing in Trump campaign materials and Hannity starts tweeting the same thing. Almost like it’s coordinated. https://t.co/WsTDSuw1gM

— David B. Larter (@DavidLarter) March 4, 2020

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makeitstop Mar 3, 2020 • 6:41:47pm

NBC News: Mike Bloomberg to reasses his campaign tomorrow

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) March 4, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:45:17pm

I don’t recall Warren endorsing anyone yet. And I have a suspicion it won’t be Sanders: Warren is pragmatic.

Warren is now a Biden surrogate and anyone who sees themseleves as progressive who is still defending her has lost the plot.

— james_roe (@james_roe) March 4, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:46:38pm

No matter who wins where tonight, this #SuperTuesday is already historic.

Democrats are fired up, organized, and mobilized, including the critical states like North Carolina, where over 500k Dems have already voted - shattering 2008 records & representing 125% of 2016 turnout.

— Tori Taylor (@toritaylor) March 3, 2020

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Dread Pirate Mar 3, 2020 • 6:47:56pm

Fortune isn’t favoring #Warren, and try as she might, her rain dance just isn’t working. Very few delegates seem to falling her way this #supertuesday https://t.co/UG7Qz3KwQy

— RT (@RT_com) March 4, 2020

Russia goes racist on Warren.

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Disloyal Archangel Mar 3, 2020 • 6:48:58pm

That’s too bad. It would go viral.

— Darla Moore (@dar_l_mo) March 3, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 6:50:50pm

Jumped 1700 since this afternoon. Russia is now on the map.

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Renaissance_Man Mar 3, 2020 • 6:50:53pm

re: #220 TarHellion

Understandable. But there is one person left in the field who can win PA, MI, FL, NC, WI, AZ, IA, and OH, it is Biden. He’s not perfect. But he would be a return to normalcy to quote a thoroughly corrupt GOP president from the 1920s. In Biden’s case, it would be normalcy, He seems to be a decent - human - person. And that is what we so desperately need.

As a country, we need many things. A return to normalcy is one, but that normalcy is also a normalcy that elected Donald fucking Trump as God-Emperor of the United States of America. What we really need is a correction.

Biden is a better human being than many. There is no question that any Democrat and any Democratic administration would be an improvement over the crime family that squats in Washington. But he is yet another septuagenarian white man, who will not hold Republicans accountable for their crimes. America will simply pretend that all the war crimes, concentration camps, bribery, corruption, and plunder of public treasure were regrettable, but only to be expected when we dared to try to put a woman in charge.

America’s original mistake was pretending that treason and rebellion was worth ignoring for the sake of ‘healing’ and ‘coming together’. Now the sons and daughters of that postbellum legacy preach genocide and murder in the streets. Now their God-Emperor bumbles his way through the White House and steals your money while visibly sinking into dementia before our eyes, and yet we want to return to ‘normalcy’ so we can forgive.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 6:51:04pm

re: #237 Anymouse 🌹🎃

No True Progressive could support Warren, eh?

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 4, 2020

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 6:51:59pm

re: #235 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Let’s see, none of them killed a foreign leader against the advice of those around them.

— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 4, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:52:38pm

#13 trending on Twitter:

#StayInLine (in relation to voting)

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makeitstop Mar 3, 2020 • 6:53:10pm

Encouraging numbers here.

By the way Republicans….

Voter Turnout vs. 2016

Virginia +23%
South Carolina +21%
North Carolina +20%
Texas pacing at + 27% 😳
Tennessee pacing at + 19%
Maine pacing at +17%
Alabama pacing at +22%
Oklahoma pacing at +16%
Colorado pacing at +12%

We’re coming for you.#ETTD

— YS (@NYinLA2121) March 4, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 6:53:46pm

re: #244 Belafon

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Says the guy who is the personal bootlicker of the guy who talked about planes in the Revolutionary War.

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retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 6:53:50pm

re: #242 Renaissance_Man

I don’t want to forgive. Not this time.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 6:54:07pm

CAPTION THIS

.@realDonaldTrump looks at coronavirus models during a tour at the National Institutes of Health – Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Md. with Dr. Fauci. pic.twitter.com/v5tGj1SJoR

— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) March 3, 2020

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 6:56:19pm

re: #249 The Pie Overlord!

CAPTION THIS

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How am I supposed to grab that model?

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danarchy Mar 3, 2020 • 6:56:32pm

re: #121 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Stacy Abrams!

I don’t get the Stacy Abrams thing. I mean, she is great and all, but I think, correct me if I am wrong, the only elected position she has held is as a State rep in Ga.

There are so many great women and POC with actual experience in the house, senate, mayors, governorships etc. I would just like someone in the spot who actually has relevant experience.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:57:41pm

re: #249 The Pie Overlord!

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William Lewis Mar 3, 2020 • 6:57:48pm

re: #242 Renaissance_Man

As I’ve said before, the US should have made the south consider the British handling of the Jacobite rising of 1745 as gentle.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 6:58:36pm

Maybe Roger Stone Just High On CHRIST, You Dicks (Goes to Wonkette, with video clip from HBO):

Have you met Roger Stone’s personal friend Jesus Christ? He already loves you, even if you don’t know it. He wants to meet you. In fact, if you have some time later and don’t mind Roger maybe threatening to kill your dog at some point in the conversation if you don’t lie to Congress for him in order to protect Donald Trump, Roger might introduce you to his friend, who is Christ.

Stone explained his new convenient friendship saving faith in Jesus on the Axios HBO program, which exists:

(video, 0:38)

“I feel pretty good because I’ve taken Jesus Christ as my personal savior,” Stone said in his first on-camera interview since his sentencing. “And it’s given me enormous strength and solace, because he knows what’s in my heart.” […]

“Christians believe deeply in redemption,” Stone said. “So it’s not whether you’ve sinned. … It’s what’s in your heart today — where you stand with God today.”

(more)

Biting back the snark here.

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TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 6:59:10pm

re: #228 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Thank you for the correction and the historical facts.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 6:59:58pm

I will repeat what others said… THIS is why you and your boy Bernie are losing.

This is NOT the 60’s… and, Bernie is in government, so it’s a bit silly to claim to want to “Take Down the Man”

when YOU ARE the MAN!!!!

Nothing more establishment than a 30 yr politician. https://t.co/63X08howQB

— Bernie’s Medical Records Are a Cop (@JustAGurLnSwedn) March 4, 2020

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:00:26pm

My takeaway from this evening: moms and grandmoms of all backgrounds, creeds, ethnicities, and races really really really want Trump gone

— David Frum (@davidfrum) March 4, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:02:06pm

re: #251 danarchy

I don’t get the Stacy Abrams thing. I mean, she is great and all, but I think, correct me if I am wrong, the only elected position she has held is as a State rep in Ga.

There are so many great women and POC with actual experience in the house, senate, mayors, governorships etc. I would just like someone in the spot who actually has relevant experience.

Stacy Abrams made a big splash in the press with her run for Georgia governor. She was also the first major-party African-American nominee for any state governor’s office. In 2019 she gave the response to the State of the Union address, raising her profile further.

Unfortunately, a lot of voters choose name-recognition over experience and expertise.

That’s not to say she doesn’t have either, and her work in her voting rights organisation is important.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:02:31pm

Wow. Is there a single person who predicted this a week ago? https://t.co/lZ1nOc3iRn

— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) March 4, 2020

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Mar 3, 2020 • 7:03:58pm

re: #239 Dread Pirate

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Russia goes racist on Warren.

Fortune isn’t favoring #Warren, and try as she might, her rain dance just isn’t working. Very few delegates seem to falling her way this #supertuesday https://t.co/UG7Qz3KwQy

— RT (@RT_com) March 4, 2020

Fuck you, Putin spies. The new administration is going to run your lying pimp asses right out of the country.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:04:19pm

Who had the narrative, “Biden will drive turnout?”

I did not.

— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) March 4, 2020

I apologize for saying Mike Bloomberg isn’t funny. Spending a half billion dollars of your own money and only winning American Samoa is extremely funny https://t.co/HrnTJSOcrE

— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) March 4, 2020

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 7:04:32pm

Biden pulling way ahead. pic.twitter.com/imh1aNgas4

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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Dread Pirate Mar 3, 2020 • 7:05:12pm

As of Tue, total cases of #coronavirus infection in #SouthKorea soared to 5,328, with 32 deaths. The South Korean govt announced a “war” against #COVID19 by mobilizing troops to help with disinfection work in Daegu and nearby largely affected areas. pic.twitter.com/6bdPyxyxOP

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) March 4, 2020

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stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 7:05:21pm

re: #259 Belafon

Jennifer Epstein
@jeneps
17m
AP calls Minnesota for Joe Biden

If that Biden lead holds up, I’m really glad I voted the way I did this evening.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 7:05:54pm

Saddened by the passing of Punjab Singh, who was left paralyzed in 2012 after the horrific #hatecrime at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. Sending love & strength to his family and the entire Sikh community. https://t.co/OMns4Mq3rd

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) March 4, 2020

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:07:53pm

Add Arkansas in the Joe column!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 7:09:14pm

re: #266 Joe Bacon 🌹

Add Arkansas in the Joe column!

Red states don’t count

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:09:54pm

This is the top of the DK page right now:

Primary

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 7:10:09pm

How long before Sirota starts calling it The Democrat Establishment?

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 4, 2020

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TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 7:10:43pm

re: #251 danarchy

To me it has to be Kamala Harris. Her seat would go to Lieu or Schiff or someone I’m not thinking or right now. Abrams has a great future and should be the governor of Georgia right now. VP would be an enormous leap forward.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:10:50pm

I’m hoping Texas pulls a little closer when it’s all over.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:12:05pm

Bernie claims he led the opposition to the war in Iraq. Bullshit.

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retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 7:12:56pm

re: #270 TarHellion

To me it has to be Kamala Harris. Her seat would go to Lieu or Schiff or someone I’m not thinking or right now. Abrams has a great future and should be the governor of Georgia right now. VP would be an enormous leap forward.

Brian Kemp stole that election for… Brian Kemp. Abrams should have won that.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 7:15:34pm

pic.twitter.com/Rcaqv5NJW4

— Tzippy Shmilovitz 🤦‍♀️ (@Tzipshmil) March 4, 2020

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plansbandc Mar 3, 2020 • 7:15:37pm

re: #272 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He’s socialist Trump.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:15:45pm

In NC, 55% of voters support single payer.36% of them went for Biden, 34% for Sanders, 15% for Warren.https://t.co/mEZvz5OzbR pic.twitter.com/j5KMeccRVp

— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) March 4, 2020

Not to overdo this, but in Alabama, 50% of D voters support single payer, acc to exit polls. Biden won these voters with 47% (to 32% for Sanders, 10% for Warren).

You get the idea.https://t.co/XylRkIGNuh pic.twitter.com/RDiynlOxxN

— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) March 4, 2020

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:15:54pm

Here goes Bernie in his destructive mode.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:15:56pm

In 2010 it was same-sex marriage, in 2016 it was transgender bathrooms, now it seems wingnuts have their fearmongering item to drive conservative voters to the polls to vote for more tax cuts for corporations (video, 13:48, caution for coarse language and adult commentary):

Ken Ham Rages Over Drag Queen Story Hour

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 7:16:59pm

re: #272 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

His supporters don’t seem to have vetted him well at all.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:17:00pm

re: #276 Belafon

Reload

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 7:17:41pm

re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹

Here goes Bernie in his destructive mode.

Is there really any* other Bernie mode? He’s always been a My Way Or Fuck You kinda guy.

*Fixed

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 7:18:00pm

re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹

Here goes Bernie in his destructive mode.

I really really don’t like how Sanders is getting people to boo other Democrats. I just don’t understand why that’s necessary.
And I really don’t like Biden’s record.

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 4, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:18:12pm

re: #273 retired cynic

Brian Kemp stole that election for… Brian Kemp. Abrams should have won that.

Stacy Abrams says she does not know how the election would have turned out if Kemp’s office had not purged so many voters, but she claims to this day the election was illegitimate because of all the voter suppression and apparent self-dealing by Brian Kemp.

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plansbandc Mar 3, 2020 • 7:18:22pm

I loathe the Bern. I want him gone.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:19:17pm

re: #279 jaunte

His supporters don’t seem to have vetted him well at all.

He’s a left wing Trump. I’m legit angry about the war lie. I participated in protests against that. Bernie wasn’t there or even mentioned and these to my 32 year old embarrassment were International ANSWER rallies.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:20:03pm

re: #281 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Is there really any* other Bernie mode? He’s always been a My Way Or Fuck You kinda guy.

*Fixed

I don’t get what the younger generation sees in him. He comes off like a grouch.

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A Three Hour Tour Mar 3, 2020 • 7:20:14pm

re: #258 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Stacy Abrams made a big splash in the press with her run for Georgia governor. She was also the first major-party African-American nominee for any state governor’s office. In 2019 she gave the response to the State of the Union address, raising her profile further.

Unfortunately, a lot of voters choose name-recognition over experience and expertise.

That’s not to say she doesn’t have either, and her work in her voting rights organisation is important.

First major party African-American nominee for any state governor’s office?

Does the name of democratic former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder ring a bell?

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:20:19pm

Well, you’re an ass then.

He doesn’t, we do that on our own.

I was in the crowd of his San Jose rally and he even told us to hold our boos + clarified Joe was a friend. Bernie is too good, really a class act.

— Indy Coyote (@MicroTrashPanda) March 4, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Mar 3, 2020 • 7:20:46pm

BREAKING: Trump gives $30,000 less to fight #coronavirus than he did to silence Stormy Daniels pic.twitter.com/QLSZ32IZi8

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 4, 2020

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:21:01pm

Weird. Only Dems voting today, and I have yet to see one report, one anecdote about voter suppression or intimidation. It’s almost like that all comes from Republicans.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 3, 2020

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danarchy Mar 3, 2020 • 7:21:17pm

re: #287 A Three Hour Tour

First major party African-American nominee for any state governor’s office?

Does the name of democratic former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder ring a bell?

Not to mention recent presidential candidate Deval Patrick

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 3, 2020 • 7:21:49pm

re: #286 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I don’t get what the younger generation sees in him. He comes off like a grouch.

Young people seem to like that. Trump has young voters. They’re angry.

The only thing I can say is Bernie’s voters are angry about the right things.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:21:57pm

Minnesota goes into the Joe column

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:22:54pm

re: #287 A Three Hour Tour

First major party African-American nominee for any state governor’s office?

Does the name of democratic former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder ring a bell?

I was not aware of him. I went and looked him up. Thanks.

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b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:23:47pm

Wow. Primary season has lasted over a year but only the last 3 days have mattered.

Good luck Joe, hope you wake up more liberal every day.

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bratwurst Mar 3, 2020 • 7:24:56pm

re: #286 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I don’t get what the younger generation sees in him. He comes off like a grouch.

I honestly feel like a large part of his appeal is very similar to Trump’s: a certain kind of person likes to see a vituperative asshole representing their point of view on television.

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retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 7:25:13pm

AL Senate: apparently Tuberville vs Sessions in a runoff.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 7:25:15pm

re: #295 b.d. (We’re gonna win)

Wow. Primary season has lasted over a year but only the last 3 days have mattered.

Good luck Joe, hope you wake up more liberal every day.

I think we go with the Virginia model. Joe will probably sign every piece of progressive legislation put in front of him. Make Congress more liberal.

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A Three Hour Tour Mar 3, 2020 • 7:26:12pm

re: #294 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I was not aware of him. I went and looked him up. Thanks.

You must have left Virginia before the 1989 gubernatorial election, although he was lieutenant governor for four years immediately before that.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 7:26:15pm

Trump always liked models.#Covid_19

Created with the LGF Meme Machine https://t.co/OxdTOyskyE via @Green_Footballs pic.twitter.com/iC76v1NiV7

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 4, 2020

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stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 7:26:25pm

re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹

Here goes Bernie in his destructive mode.

Is Bernie still in St. Paul? That’s got to suck for him…

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 7:27:31pm

Crazy ass Animal rights activists storming Joe’s stage…

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 7:27:52pm

Fact. No matter who you support for the nomination, if you are a Democratic voter then be counted. https://t.co/EYCnJAWUP8

— David Simon (@AoDespair) March 4, 2020

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b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:28:08pm

Great job Secret Service….

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:28:41pm

re: #296 bratwurst

I honestly feel like a large part of his appeal is very similar to Trump’s: a certain kind of person likes to see a vituperative asshole representing their point of view on television.

I think so too. I just think it’s disappointing that many young people seem to find that appealing.

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makeitstop Mar 3, 2020 • 7:29:47pm

Heh.

Breaking: pic.twitter.com/fAmMx9ExKU

— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) March 4, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 7:30:43pm

Looks like Maine is going to be a close race.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:31:28pm

re: #307 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Looks like Maine is going to be a close race.

That’s huge given how well M4A was polling there.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 3, 2020 • 7:31:40pm

I wonder if Bloomberg is going to cost Biden Texas?

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 7:31:59pm

Biden sounds really sharp in his speech tonight.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 7:32:17pm

Strangely apropos

“I asked my neighbor to turn down his music and now he’s dipping his genitals in the snow” 😑 pic.twitter.com/A6fz7lO5SC

— Best of Nextdoor 🔜 #SXSW (@bestofnextdoor) March 4, 2020

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b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:32:54pm

re: #309 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I wonder if Bloomberg is going to cost Biden Texas?

Early voting in Texas started the day before Mike’s God awful debate performance, lots of votes in there.

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 7:33:01pm

Oh great. Louise Mensch calling out her crazies on me.

I don’t know how young you think I am, but you’re obviously mistaken.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:33:07pm

This is such a nice contrast to Bernie’s speech.

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Camp Waconda Mar 3, 2020 • 7:34:36pm

re: #314 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

So true!

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 7:34:46pm

This was a bad night for malarkey

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 4, 2020

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bratwurst Mar 3, 2020 • 7:35:39pm

re: #313 Charles Johnson

Oh great. Louise Mensch calling out her crazies on me.

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I blocked her about 2 years ago and I am proud to say that I had totally forgotten she even existed until this post.

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 7:38:40pm

If you’re going to come at someone and accuse them of “ageism,” it’s probably a good idea to find out how old that person is, first.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Mar 3, 2020 • 7:39:11pm

re: #316 goddamnedfrank

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Malarky would be a great strain name though:

“It promised a focused morning after my first cuppa, but I got couch-lock and couldn’t show up for my shift and got fired.”

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Interesting Times Mar 3, 2020 • 7:39:29pm

Interesting perspective which makes complete sense:

I wish Sen. Warren was getting more credit tonight for Biden’s comeback. Not long ago, pundits thought Bloomberg was overtaking Biden. People are pointing to S.C. and endorsements as turning the tide. No, Warren turned the tide for Biden. She eliminated Bloomberg in Nevada.

— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) March 4, 2020

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 7:42:42pm

It isn’t “ageism” to be disturbed at another presidential election dominated by old white men. It’s history.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2020

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Dr. Matt Mar 3, 2020 • 7:43:28pm

Dr. Biden has bigger balls than Donnie.

BREAKING: Protesters rush the stage toward Joe Biden during #SuperTuesday night speech; they were stopped by people near Biden. Biden is continuing with his speech. pic.twitter.com/0tI9uSj7pQ

— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 4, 2020

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 7:44:11pm

Berners be MAD tonight.

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Dr. Matt Mar 3, 2020 • 7:44:47pm

re: #323 The Pie Overlord!

Berners be MAD tonight.

That’s maga

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 7:45:08pm

Jesus Christ, this is just sad. https://t.co/4QK1bz39y0

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 4, 2020

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Interesting Times Mar 3, 2020 • 7:45:18pm

re: #322 Dr. Matt

Dr. Biden has bigger balls than Donnie.

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Trying to imagine what would happen if someone disrupted a political speech in Wisconsin with a “Let Dairy Die” sign pic.twitter.com/7LabxwzeTZ

— Jessie Opoien (@jessieopie) March 4, 2020

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 7:46:06pm

Whether or not he’s your candidate, there’s something very compelling about the way Biden explicitly talks about this as a team effort. https://t.co/DJAwb6zzfx

— Sasha Samberg-Champion (@ssamcham) March 4, 2020

Nice contrast with the big orange MeMeMe.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:46:44pm

re: #322 Dr. Matt

Dr. Biden has bigger balls than Donnie.

Dr. Biden is cool. I attended one of the other campuses of the community college she taught at in the Obama years.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:49:36pm

Ah cool. My home county Fairfax County is trending.

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Dr. Matt Mar 3, 2020 • 7:49:57pm

And more good news

Sad News for child molesters, Roy Moore lost his primary for Senate. Heads up, local malls.

— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@HoodlumRIP) March 4, 2020

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stpaulbear Mar 3, 2020 • 7:50:16pm

Man, did I ever predict the MN vote wrong. I thought Mpls was going to go for Bernie and St. Paul for Biden, but it’s just the opposite. It’s annoying to me that my county is going to be one of just a few MN counties where Bernie won. Only 10% of the Ramsey County vote is in so maybe it will change.

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Dr. Matt Mar 3, 2020 • 7:53:04pm

Trolling, trolling, trolling….

Joe Biden: “It may be over for the other guy!” #SuperTuesday pic.twitter.com/YqKkU31NJI

— The Hill (@thehill) March 4, 2020

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 7:53:18pm

CONTEXT ALERT: @realDonaldTrump demanded — and received — @SecretService protection starting in *November 2015.* https://t.co/eH07eWRTOE

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) March 4, 2020

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 7:55:01pm

Nicely done, @SymoneDSanders pic.twitter.com/7u8mhrZZ5m

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) March 4, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 7:55:53pm

re: #334 jaunte

And notice that Biden did not insult the protester.

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 7:55:53pm

The bros are seriously pissed off tonight.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 3, 2020 • 7:57:56pm

re: #336 Charles Johnson

The bros are seriously pissed off tonight.

And you know what? Fuck ‘em.

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Disloyal Archangel Mar 3, 2020 • 7:58:52pm

To Whom It May Concern,

We’re trying to oust a dictator here.

Please stop using the word “establishment” for anyone who doesn’t agree with you/vote like you.

It’s no different than lazily calling someone the “radical Left.”

Let’s de-Trump this race and de-Trump America.

— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) March 4, 2020

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 7:59:03pm

re: #336 Charles Johnson

They’re making a huge issue of him ‘mixing up’ his wife and sister.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 3, 2020 • 7:59:33pm

re: #336 Charles Johnson

The bros are seriously pissed off tonight.

You might say they feel a little…berned.

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Flying Squirrel Girl Mar 3, 2020 • 7:59:40pm

Not gonna lie…I stopped after work and picked up a bottle of wine and have been celebrating the returns tonight. I’ll admit I’ve been worried about the media narrative that exploded after IA, NH & NV and started to feel better after SC but tonight I feel hopeful. Been a long time.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 3, 2020 • 8:00:11pm

Probably not going to happen, but I approve the sentiment:

Anyway, I hope Bloomberg slinks away and instead joins Tom Steyer spending money in a way more likely to ensure democracy remains viable in this country.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 4, 2020

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Interesting Times Mar 3, 2020 • 8:00:44pm

See, if Bernie supporters really want to see their policies come to fruition, this is how you do it - the hard, unglamorous, often-invisible and no-instant-gratification way:

I’m a Bernie supporter who builds with Warren supporters. It’s how we got a top-to-bottom progressive ballot sweep in NY14.

Throughout it all, Alessandra & I do town halls &collect signatures together to get each other on the ballot.

We’ve got each other’s back.💜#BuildTogether https://t.co/G0QZVbbcDR

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 3, 2020

I know the internet can be an ugly place - speaking as someone who deals with a LOT of vitriol - but if your opinion of a campaign is primarily shaped by the internet, try taking a 2nd look at the work and movement-building happening on the ground. It’s different & special.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 3, 2020

_{And no cultish elevation of a person as opposed to a process.}

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 8:01:13pm

😯😰😱😫😖😬 https://t.co/3R8qaW69Tg

— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) March 4, 2020

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makeitstop Mar 3, 2020 • 8:04:56pm

re: #341 Flying Squirrel Girl

Not gonna lie…I stopped after work and picked up a bottle of wine and have been celebrating the returns tonight. I’ll admit I’ve been worried about the media narrative that exploded after IA, NH & NV and started to feel better after SC but tonight I feel hopeful. Been a long time.

The turnout numbers are really giving me a good feeling.

If Trump’s gonna cheat, he’s gonna have to cheat big. Like, absolutely obvious big.

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 8:04:59pm

Texas, among other states, has suppressed the vote by physically making it harder. Polling places were cut in growing heavily minority counties while adding sites in GOP leaning areas. Just saying. #VoterSuppression https://t.co/IRW33vIsei

— 𝕃𝕠𝕔𝕦𝕥𝕦𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝔹𝕠𝕣𝕘™ (@WildPalmsLtd) March 4, 2020

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 8:06:13pm

You want a woman President?

The absolutely best way to make sure it happens, soon, is to have one on the ticket with Joe Biden.

It’s that simple.

— Fred Harding (@OPCGhost) March 4, 2020

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 8:07:20pm

Status in Texas, from Daily Kos:

PERCENT REPORTING: 29%
28.8% Sanders
25.8% Biden
17.7% Bloomberg

15 minutes ago, Biden was 4% behind Sanders.

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b.d. (We're gonna win) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:07:50pm

I just can’t imagine Melania doing a body block to protect her current husband.

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Interesting Times Mar 3, 2020 • 8:09:02pm

re: #349 b.d. (We’re gonna win)

I just can’t imagine Melania doing a body block to protect her current husband.

She really doesn’t care, do u?

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Mar 3, 2020 • 8:11:32pm

Finally got home from voting - and a true adventure it was. As promised, I have pictures!
Pictures are hidden, because they’re pretty big.

First image here is from when I first arrived at the polling place. As you can tell, there’s already a pretty long line waiting for me, and this is just the outside queue. Another 75-100 are in line inside the building as well.

Click to Reveal

Waiting line outside at arrival (6PM)

Second one comes from after an hour of waiting, when the polls officially closed. Since everyone was already in line, they brought everyone inside, where we continued to wait. At this time I still had a good 100 people in front of me, and this image is for the folks who showed up after I did:

Click to Reveal

Polls Closed.

Finally, we have what I will call the money shot. The reason behind the wait. There’s no candy-coating on this one, but for the HUNDREDS of people queued in line in what is considered a “leans-left” precinct, not at all considered hardcore Democratic by any means we have five voting booths.

Five.

Can you say Voter Disenfranchisement 101?
Sorry for the bad quality image here, but there’s laws on the books against taking closeup photographs of the voting area - which I can fully understand, so had to do it from a distance and kind of stealthily.

Click to Reveal

Voting Area - Five Booths.

An aside - the poor two souls who were working the registration were literally there since 4AM - and likely won’t get out of there before midnight.

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The Pie Overlord! Mar 3, 2020 • 8:11:33pm

Yikes. pic.twitter.com/ciuBEPquWX

— JRehling (@JRehling) March 4, 2020

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William Lewis Mar 3, 2020 • 8:11:58pm

re: #333 jaunte

Cowards are like that.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 8:12:05pm

re: #299 A Three Hour Tour

You must have left Virginia before the 1989 gubernatorial election, although he was lieutenant governor for four years immediately before that.

I didn’t pay much attention to Virginia politics, as I was registered to vote in Florida at the time.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:13:51pm

Massachusetts called for Biden. Warren in thrid place.

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 8:14:26pm

Doing some armchair politicking, I’m wondering if the electorate as a whole is having a bit of a backlash to “shake it all up” politics, thanks to three years of Trump incompetence.

— skullsinthestars (@drskyskull) March 4, 2020

Yup.

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BigPapa Mar 3, 2020 • 8:14:38pm

Somebody said Biden’s sister/wife switched behind him… I haven’t seen it.

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Flying Squirrel Girl Mar 3, 2020 • 8:14:57pm

re: #345 makeitstop

I agree, the turnout is astounding and incredibly encouraging.

Here’s my hope: Biden knows that a great running mate helped carry Obama to victory — one relatively unknown but amazing up-and-comer and a comfortable known low risk running mate. So…he has to make a dynamic pick to further energize the party — Abrams or Harris would be my dream.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:16:41pm

TMac’s right. Zero TV ads here in Va. 68% turnout increase.

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mmmirele Mar 3, 2020 • 8:16:42pm

re: #220 TarHellion

Understandable. But there is one person left in the field who can win PA, MI, FL, NC, WI, AZ, IA, and OH, it is Biden. He’s not perfect. But he would be a return to normalcy to quote a thoroughly corrupt GOP president from the 1920s. In Biden’s case, it would be normalcy, He seems to be a decent - human - person. And that is what we so desperately need.

I still have my ballot—unmarked—for the Arizona primary. I remember in 2008, I voted for Hillary Clinton because I wanted to vote for at least one woman as president in my lifetime. In 2020, I want to vote for Elizabeth Warren because I think she is the best candidate and this even though I know she has probably got a plan to break up my evil too big to fail employer. But I don’t know what to do—I’m going to be blunt—I absolutely do not want Bernie as the candidate. I have qualms about Biden, but it would be a return to normalcy. Ugh. Decisions, decisions.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 8:22:10pm

re: #348 Belafon

I wonder what area just got added in Texas, because it was a big change for Biden:

PERCENT REPORTING: 38%
28.6% Sanders
27.2% Biden
17.4% Bloomberg

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 3, 2020 • 8:23:24pm

Odds on Warren dropping out tomorrow?

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retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 8:25:04pm

re: #361 Belafon

That’s not matching the chart on 538 at all! I wonder what is going on? 538 has 46% reporting, and Sanders 29% - Biden 25% - Bloomberg 18%. And it has been right there from the 30 percentile on up.

Beats me! I like yours!

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Sherlock Hound Mar 3, 2020 • 8:25:22pm

Cue Nelson GIF: “Ha, Ha!”

Top 2 primaries are great. pic.twitter.com/dP2oh17Cd8

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 4, 2020

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Mar 3, 2020 • 8:25:50pm

No way in hell they can call Texas yet. There’s thousands of votes out in major metropolitan areas that would likely swing for Biden - Dallas is about 30% counted, San Antonio and Houston are both still at 0% in.

Between the lack of voting booths and the new ballots they are starting to use that actually have a paper trail (you vote on the machine, it spits out a paper receipt that shows all votes cast, and feed that receipt into the tabulator machine to be counted after everyone is done - We’ll be lucky if we get a winner announced before midnight.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:26:18pm

re: #364 Sherlock Hound

Cue Nelson GIF: “Ha, Ha!”

Sad trombones.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:27:02pm

re: #365 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos

No way in hell they can call Texas yet. There’s thousands of votes out in major metropolitan areas that would likely swing for Biden - Dallas is about 30% counted, San Antonio and Houston are both still at 0% in.

Between the lack of voting booths and the new ballots they are starting to use that actually have a paper trail (you vote on the machine, it spits out a paper receipt that shows all votes cast, and feed that receipt into the tabulator machine to be counted after everyone is done - We’ll be lucky if we get a winner announced before midnight.

Yeah I think Texas is going to end up really close.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 8:27:37pm

re: #366 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Sad trombones.

For Steve maybe.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 3, 2020 • 8:28:09pm

re: #366 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Sad trombones.

Price is right losing horn

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:28:14pm

re: #368 Belafon

For Steve maybe.

Heh for Cenk. 4% of the vote.

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 8:28:33pm

re: #361 Belafon

Sanders seems strongest in the RGV, far west, and Austin. I think Biden has a chance to overtake in the Houston and Dallas suburbs.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 8:29:07pm

re: #370 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Heh for Cenk. 4% of the vote.

I would hope they would look at Cenk and decide he wasn’t worth the effort.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:30:02pm

re: #372 Belafon

I would hope they would look at Cenk and decide he wasn’t worth the effort.

I would hope so too.

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 8:30:49pm

Honestly the most flabbergasting thing to me is Biden generating impressive turnout with so little groundwork in some of these places, while we’ve spent the past four years fixating on Parscale-bought Facebook memes that might keep 30 Helens from voting in Matamoras, Pennsylvania

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) March 4, 2020

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Interesting Times Mar 3, 2020 • 8:31:31pm

re: #360 mmmirele

I have qualms about Biden, but it would be a return to normalcy. Ugh. Decisions, decisions.

I had plenty of qualms about Biden too - namely, the fear he was naively or willfully ignoring how horrid GOPers had become, and wouldn’t hold them accountable for their crimes and corruption. This answer he gave in the CNN Townhall provided some reassurance, however - note how he initially responds to the question, acknowledging that, far from being absurd, it makes perfect sense at this time in US history:

Q: What would you do if President Trump loses the election but refuses to concede?

Joe Biden: “I have no worry about him being escorted out of the White House” #CNNTownHall https://t.co/QpxS5NMHXR pic.twitter.com/4UjuxZSc3H

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 27, 2020

_{I also suspect that the whole don’t-even-bother-with-witnesses fiasco in the Senate served as a reality check for him.}

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jaunte Mar 3, 2020 • 8:31:35pm

I had no idea there was a Matamoras, PA.

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retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 8:32:10pm

re: #374 jaunte

Easy. WE WANT RUMP GONE!

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Anymouse 🌹🎃 Mar 3, 2020 • 8:34:23pm

I’m off to bed. CU L8R.

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William Lewis Mar 3, 2020 • 8:34:40pm

re: #360 mmmirele

I still have my ballot—unmarked—for the Arizona primary. I remember in 2008, I voted for Hillary Clinton because I wanted to vote for at least one woman as president in my lifetime. In 2020, I want to vote for Elizabeth Warren because I think she is the best candidate and this even though I know she has probably got a plan to break up my evil too big to fail employer. But I don’t know what to do—I’m going to be blunt—I absolutely do not want Bernie as the candidate. I have qualms about Biden, but it would be a return to normalcy. Ugh. Decisions, decisions.

On April 7 I still intend to vote for Warren even if she drops out by then. The primary is for voting for the candidate you feel is best. The general is for holding your nose if necessary.

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retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 8:34:54pm

Now, finally, 538 is reporting TX at 48% in, 29 to 26, BS to JB.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 8:36:21pm

While he may trip over his own shadow from time to time, I know for a fact that Joe Biden will not be in our face every five fucking seconds with verbal diarrhea.

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 8:37:26pm

re: #379 William Lewis

On April 7 I still intend to vote for Warren even if she drops out by then. The primary is for voting for the candidate you feel is best. The general is for holding your nose if necessary.

The counter on that is are there any of the candidates that you wouldn’t want to win?

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Mar 3, 2020 • 8:38:55pm

re: #380 retired cynic

Now, finally, 538 is reporting TX at 48% in, 29 to 26, BS to JB.

Yep, difference between Bernie and Joe has dropped from about 30K votes to below 20K in just a few minutes. Harris county (Houston) looks like it just dropped in quite a few of the votes.

I think Joe has a fair shot of winning here, which is absolutely fascinating as his Texas ground game was basically non-existent before the South Carolina primary, and one of the counties that hasn’t been counted yet is El Paso County (aka Beto Country - and we all know who he endorsed).

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 8:40:12pm

re: #380 retired cynic

Now, finally, 538 is reporting TX at 48% in, 29 to 26, BS to JB.

I sort of want to know where each site is getting it’s data from, but I still like Daily Kos (maybe they’re part of the “establishment” since Kos seriously does not like Sanders - snarc on the first half):

PERCENT REPORTING: 45%
28.7% Sanders
28.4% Biden
17.1% Bloomberg

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:40:58pm

re: #384 Belafon

I sort of want to know where each site is getting it’s data from, but I still like Daily Kos (maybe they’re part of the “establishment” since Kos seriously does not like Sanders - snarc on the first half):

PERCENT REPORTING: 45%
28.7% Sanders
28.4% Biden
17.1% Bloomberg

He’s slowly coming back. Wow!

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Dread Pirate Mar 3, 2020 • 8:41:16pm

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retired cynic Mar 3, 2020 • 8:44:48pm

1/ Texas polls closed at 7 p.m. in most of the state.

It’s 3-and-a-half hours later — and some people are STILL in line to vote. #TexasPrimary #tx2020 #txlege #SuperTuesday https://t.co/d8AzZFqCww

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 4, 2020

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Charles Johnson Mar 3, 2020 • 8:46:26pm

Hey my American leftists, tonight might be the time to start practicing our civility and unity. As fun as it is to flame someone you mildly disagree with, there’s actual work to be done. And as a Canadian socialist you all look moderate to me. Love you.

— Dave Foley (@DaveSFoley) March 4, 2020

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Belafon Mar 3, 2020 • 8:49:05pm

It’s #SuperTuesday & everyone MUST #VOTE or lose their right to bitch & moan about how terrible things are. Lucky for us, #GenialGenius @RandyRainbow has provided a timely (& tuneful) #VotersGuide. Enjoy! #AnyDemWillDo #VoteBlueNoMatterWho2020 🌊 https://t.co/aMHmktjENz

— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) March 3, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Mar 3, 2020 • 8:49:54pm

In the year of the coronavirus there is an added public health argument for requiring on-demand (no excuse required) vote by mail ballot access in every State.

Let the Republicans block that https://t.co/D0Fwi5PLXA

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 4, 2020

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Flying Squirrel Girl Mar 3, 2020 • 8:50:00pm

9re: #367 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

And that’s only because of Operation Chaos, aka Our Candidate Is So Weak We Have To Ratfuck Your Primary.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 8:50:33pm

Biden down by 0.5% in Texas now.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 3, 2020 • 8:50:50pm

STOP PRESS!

Toolsi won 1 delegate!!!!!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:51:20pm

re: #391 Flying Squirrel Girl

9

And that’s only because of Operation Chaos, aka Our Candidate Is So Weak We Have To Ratfuck Your Primary.

If Texas goes Democratic in the Fall. Holy.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 3, 2020 • 8:52:22pm

re: #394 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

If Texas goes Democratic, it’s an extinction-level event for the GOP.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Mar 3, 2020 • 8:52:41pm

re: #395 Ace Rothstein

If Texas goes Democratic, it’s an extinction-level event for the GOP.

Yep.

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makeitstop Mar 3, 2020 • 8:55:15pm

re: #395 Ace Rothstein

If Texas goes Democratic, it’s an extinction-level event for the GOP.

Bring it on.

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BigPapa Mar 3, 2020 • 8:57:15pm

re: #395 Ace Rothstein

If Texas goes Democratic, it’s an extinction-level event for the GOP.

Shoot that shit into my veins.

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TarHellion Mar 3, 2020 • 8:58:01pm

re: #360 mmmirele

Can understand where you are coming from. Always thought Warren was the best candidate on the issues. But we remain a horribly sexist country. When voting today in NC, just had to choose between keeping a viable Democratic Party in November or facing utter disaster. Elizabeth Warren still can play a major role, particularly as Treasury Secretary or leading a committee in a Democratic Senate,

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sagehen Mar 3, 2020 • 9:07:15pm

re: #399 TarHellion

Can understand where you are coming from. Always thought Warren was the best candidate on the issues. But we remain a horribly sexist country. When voting today in NC, just had to choose between keeping a viable Democratic Party in November or facing utter disaster. Elizabeth Warren still can play a major role, particularly as Treasury Secretary or leading a committee in a Democratic Senate,

I want her at the SEC.

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