Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBloomberg shows the foolishness of arguing over wine caves & purity. Voters just want to beat Trump
And now Bloomberg who is a billionaire has momentum. He doesn't give a damn what others say because he is only focusing on Trump. He is running a shadow general election campaign while the others were arguing with each other. Voters, the rank and file folks, who are not obsessed with every petty little detail. Most voters are not political obsessives. They will support whoever the democrat is but are seeing Bloomberg take the fight to Trump and like it.
Am I happy that a billionaire ex republican is being seen as some sort of "if in emergency break glass" candidate? No. But it wouldn't have come to this if he didn't sense democrats were tying one arm behind their backs. You can afford to search for the purest candidate when the presidency is an open seat, but when you're running against a sitting president, voters want someone who has a clear path to win. Many voters clearly see him as:
a) someone for whom money is no object so he can match and beat the Trump campaign financially
b) someone who can't be tarred as a socialist
c) someone who has held elected office as Mayor of the biggest city in the nation so he has worthy experience.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)How absurd is it that many in the Democratic Party are looking to a billionaire with retrograde social views who gave Pat Toomey $15 million in 2016 to defeat Katie McGinty and help Mitch McConnell keep control of the Senate to save them from a President with 40 percent approval ratings? A minimal amount of reflection leads to the inescapable conclusion that we have lost our way.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
redqueen
(115,103 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Raven123
(4,862 posts)Drives Trump nuts
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
denem
(11,045 posts)One is about the role of money in elections - how much is needed mount a campaign, and run it well.
The other is about purchasing influence - and there is no better example than the principals of the wine cave - which, was being discussed in the news, more than a week before the event
The influence Craig Hall wielded in the late '80s to save his real estate empire forcedHouse Speaker Jim Wright to resign. Then, after a lengthy lobbying and donations, his wife Katherine got the ambassadorship to Austria, where, amongst other things, she could pursue her interest in wine.
Bloomberg isn't taking donation. You can not buy an influence. That is a similar argument to Warren, and Sanders, although from very direction.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)in the general election
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,103 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided