Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumA Democrat Who Can Beat -Trump Why Amy Klobuchar still has a chance.
If youre like a lot of Democrats, you worry that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are too liberal or at least that other voters think so. Youre also not buying the Pete Buttigieg hype. And you get nervous every time Joe Biden opens his mouth.
So where are you supposed to find a comfortably electable, qualified candidate who wont turn 80 while in office?
Senator Amy Klobuchar has become an answer to that question in the final month before voting begins. She has outlasted more than a dozen other candidates and has two big strengths: A savvy understanding of how to campaign against President Trump and a track record of winning the sorts of swing voters Democrats will likely need this year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/opinion/amy-klobuchar-2020.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
The Valley Below
(1,701 posts)Amy is a great liberal. I'd like to see her on the ticket.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)a lot!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
question everything
(47,534 posts)On the other hand, caucus goers by definition are more to the left. Let's just hope that reasons and hard facts will prevail. There is no way we can win in November with the "revolutionaries."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)I haven't changed my preference from Warren, but really consider myself undecided. But Sen. Klobuchar is a very good option.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'm a strong liberal, but I'm not dismayed by her Minnesota liberalism that is more moderate than mine. As a senator sent to DC by the people of MN, she is bound by honor and duty to be as representative of them as she can manage.
Representative democracy is as close as I get to religion, and that checks an important box for integrity and ethical representation. So I'd be glad Klobuchar was an option if anything were to happen to VP Biden.
Fwiw, admirable as Warren is in many ways, she's also out after shocking me by viewing our individual rights and freedom of choice as discardable by legislative fiat. Polls say that would badly fail the ethical representation test. I don't care if congress would refuse to do it, it's enough that she wanted to. I like her her can-do in other positions.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mcar
(42,372 posts)She seems to be running a good campaign and I've liked her in the debates.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
question everything
(47,534 posts)In that way, she reminds me of another Midwestern senator who once seemed too ordinary to be president: Harry Truman. In the summer of 1944, an even more perilous time for global democracy than now, Democratic Party grandees chose Truman as vice president with the belief that he would soon be president, given Franklin Roosevelts declining health.
Truman was (as Klobuchar is) a loyal Democrat with populist leanings whom many Republicans, both senators and voters, nonetheless felt some affection for. He had a folksy manner and heartland accent. The analogy extends to Klobuchars best-known weakness: Truman had a temper, too.
Her greatest strength is her understanding of how to beat Republicans. They like to portray Democrats as self-serious elites who look down on ordinary Americans. (Think about the caricatures of John Kerry, Al Gore and Michael Dukakis.) Klobuchar has built her political career on an image that combines working class and middle class.
http://www.startribune.com/klobuchar-is-the-everywoman-who-can-reunite-the-u-s/566761122/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden