I don't know how we'd get through this without DU!

and thanks for all the fish.

It was fun and stressful... but who could resist it?

said about candidates by people who had signed on for other candidates.

"But I'm not sure any of that is necessary this time because overall I think this primary has been (dare I say?)... not so bad."

It is certainly time. Some of us will miss the scrap, I expect, and I would not deny I am among them.

Still, it is for the best, and I hope the customary post-primary purge may be avoided.

Be well, and stay safe!

Finally. Thank you!

This is still the first place I come to in the morning. Even while I was 'away', I was here.

GO, JOE!!!

It would be fun to have a separate 2020 General Election forum.

Now, time to focus on what ultimately matters: kicking Trump the hell out of our White House and wiping out Republicans up and down the ballot in November!

In previous years, I remember 2004, DUers were allowed to change their usernames if theirs was something like: GoLieberman, or something.. So many were allowed to change their usernames without losing their post counts.

I don't think I have seen anything like that since but, it is not as if I pay that close attention.

Thank you for keeping the DU ship afloat.

hard work of you and the other mods did to encourage civility while promoting shall I say 'lively discussions"!

General Discussion is dominated by Covid posts, and personally I need somewhere to go to get away from that. Otherwise I’ll have to dodge those bullets to see election talk.

Just my 2 cents

the Covid crisis is certainly overwhelming. For that reason, it might be worth considering a separate forum for the election.

Thanks, Skinner, and your team for all the clear pathways here to discuss, learn and interact!

All in all, it hasn't been bad this year. And going forward, I can't imagine anything but full-on support for Joe.
November can't get here fast enough!

And thanks.

I do think a general election forum might be useful.

Geaux Dems!!!!

Let's go Joe!

I've thought so but really nice to hear it from you guys.

Go, Dems!

and news site on the web. DU is a treasured resource for those who want to know what's happening and how to make the world a better place. Here's to a great season and election ahead! ~ A.Blue

Thanks DU Admin!

Democratic Underground .

I would like to see a general election forum open at some point. This is going to be a nasty fight and trump is not going to go away without a fight.

Yeah, I think this one went more smoothly and less contentiously than in 2016. And that means thank-you's go out to EVERYONE HERE!

This time was much better BY FAR. Dare I say it was because Bernie supporters this time were as civil and cordial as can be. They proved we can have differences of opinion without verbal napalm or running many of us (including me) off this board. And it was THEIR behavior, this time, that did NOT trigger any reactive response that would start the verbal knives and bullets and fists flying. That was not the case last time. I give the Bernie folks here the main credit for that, this time. What a welcome change!

Hey, DU Bernie supporters - you have my thanks and my appreciation. You represented your man in a positive way, which reflected well on him.

The civility mentioned in this OP was sometimes rather difficult to detect.

At other times it was both evident and heartening.

This seems to be a ritual DU goes through every time there is an open primary. I will be glad to see some of the "survivors" stick around. I know from experience that most, if not all, of those who came to promote discord, or to promote someone they were paid to, will now retire to wherever they came from, perhaps to show up in three and a half years, perhaps never to show up here again. What we must now promote is the defeat not only of Trump and Pence, but of those who would perpetuate the system that enabled them to take power in the first place.

A Democratic White House is a car with three wheels. It can drag along slowly and painfully, and it will be a dry refuge from the rain, if a very constrained one. That fourth wheel--the one that will let the car run along at the pace we now so desperately need--is a Democratic Senate.

Make no mistake--the Republicans know they lose the presidential election, and will cheat in every way shape and form they know of to reverse that defeat. Democrats are ready and waiting this time--something our overconfidence led us to discount last time.

But the Senate is a very diffuse target. People targeting Moscow Mitch's seat aren't in on what it will take to get Mark Kelly into the Senate in Arizona, nor flip Joni Ernst in Iowa, nor--dare I wish it? Leningrad Lindsey in South Carolina.

Let our battle scars from the presidential primary harden into armor for the general election. We are going to need it. If anyone thinks it is no obstacle to insert distractions because they think favorite aspects of their agenda take precedence, let's put the lie to THAT one here and now. Yes, it IS an obstacle. Save it for the Whiners Forum, or at least until after Biden's inauguration. Democrats have many a bigger fish to fry at the moment.

I think we can leave out the "POS used car salesman" posts (and the "Biden is a rapist" posts--gimme a break!) at the very least until we have sent Moscow Mitch packing!

That is how a democracy works in real life.

paying attention to the gauges, valves and levers that keep this site hurtling down the tracks.

Proud to be a DUer. ❤️

but I don't really like faces for avatars, can you make a different endorsement signature? I prefer the nice blue D like your regular avatar, honestly.

(just being a spoiled brat, I barely go into that forum anyway )

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I appreciate all you folks do to maintain this special place for us to get together!

And DU has the very best emojis! TY!

EarlG and Elad for having this site! It has literally kept me from going completely insane.

I KNEW in Nov 2016 that there was something wrong with the election when this site was hacked on Election Night.

It was clear to me then that there were illegalities that should have been investigated before ever allowing 45 to set foot in the WH.

Unfortunately, that was not to be. We have been living a nightmare since!

Let us end this nightmare in Nov 2020, if force majeure does not intervene in the meantime. (I keep hoping.)

Let us also retain the House, win a majority in the Senate and oust Mitch McConnell FOREVER!

Its easy with Trump being their candidate and if anyone votes for him, well they haven't been paying attention...to whats going on in the world.

For all that you do, you’re the best.

Vote Blue blue blue

Let's Win This !

Onto the election.

or as an honored member of Biden's Cabinet, of course!

Biden won fair and square.

We can talk about all 2020 races, like the important Senate elections too.

and everyone who keeps du running.

please stay well

I just wish our guy was stronger.

I'm really afraid Trump is going to
chew up Biden.

I like Biden but he is...lacking.

Hopefully it won't matter and the
hatred of Trump will carry us to
victory.

disagree.

Biden Supporters know better than that.

Administrative Skinner,
I would like to have the contents of the Primarys forum available in some read-only for at least a year.
There are writings that could be worthy of study and evaluation.
It could be interesting to see what predictions came true or failed.
Can that be done?

I really appreciated having the forum available during the primaries. Thanx.

I sure that is just standard procedure or policy, not an answer to my request.

Changing the avatar would be disingenuous.

please this time don't let the republican funded spoiler campaigns like jills & the malejill gain a toehold here.

When ya gonna start another "mail" forum?

Like before where you guys have really neat/snarky

responses to obnoxious msgs.. from wingers...I

think that would be great during the run up to nov...

Thx,,red1

Let's compare what we have and what we we were promised. come 11/4/2020. At this point in time. I fear that a free and fair election is no longer is a part of the discussion. trump is gonna force that anti-malarial drug down your throat. Don't spend your $1200 just yet. it's their idea of a sick joke. Geez, hope Miller, Mnuchin and Jar-Jar are having a good laugh. Maybe this virus will wipe out all the reasonable people and natural selection can start doing it's job.

I want to thank the admins and Skinner for making this a great place to come to. And I thank all the posters, no matter who you were in favor of, for mostly civil posts and sometimes cheerful back and forth. I have met many great people here and look forward to the General Election Forum. In the meantime, on to General Discussion.

"If you supported someone else, your signature line now shows you as "Undecided." I encourage everyone go to the DU Candidate Preference page and set your preference to Joe Biden if you have not already done so."

I did, however now my page says I would vote for Joe Biden in a primary and this is NOT true. A more proper line would be "Joe Biden is who I will vote for in 2020". This may seem like a quibble but you are asking many posters to lie in the cause of democratic unity and that seems wrong to me.

I like having a place to discuss the election without it bleeding over into my generalized topics.

Either way, you guys have done a great job this year, and congratulations on the civility!