Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumSomeone has more votes than you, you are the loser.
Thought this was common sense. But I guess it needs repeating in this Orwellian world where losing seems to mean you are the winner.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(304,721 posts)Those Pesky Voters.. Gotta Love 'em!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
empedocles
(15,751 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
UncleNoel
(864 posts)I think most Sanders supporters and Sanders would agree that he has lost,but I think Biden supporters should recognize that in two elections he has put before the nation the ideal of a great health care system.
The problem is how do we get there and it is not by revolution but by steps forward. First, close corporate loopholes and make the rich jpay their share of taxes and raise the taxes for the wealthy slightly. Then when we have the money, we can tailor the helth care to what is financially achievable.
I live in Taiwan which has according to many the best health care system in the world. I pay as anexpat about $25 a month and have highly qualified medical personnel and doctors available. My wife, a Taiwan citizen, is over 55 and doesn't have to pay at all. The plan includes basic medical care (quite generous actually on wht is considered basic), medicine (for up to three days or so above which you have to pay a but inexpensive. Basic dental care is included (but not false teeth and such). So it is great in my winter years.
The problem in the US is very high salaries of doctors and the purposeful limiting of their number and the high costs of medicine. This has to be addressed as well. I was sick in the US for 4-5 days in the hospital. Bill was 18,000 (paid ofr by Medicad). I came down with the same problem in Taiwan. The cost was a couple of hundred dollars. Doctors get good salries, but not outstanding ones and medicine is relatively inexpensive. So with Sanders and Warren I like the ideal, but I think Biden's approach is thebest way to get us onethe way.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)It's always a positive when your voice is heard and you can vote with your heart in the primary
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
IronLionZion
(46,876 posts)Dems have gotten more votes than GOP in 2000 and 2016.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
R B Garr
(17,364 posts)Call everyone older voters, - including all the black voters across several states - who dont count as much as the young people having a good time at his rallies. I guess you just count heads at his rallies and declare him the winner. No need for actually voting.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mikeysnot
(4,769 posts)ahead in the 5 inning, or at half-time and joe is only up by 150+ and over a thousand votes short of 1991.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
pampango
(24,692 posts)is indeed losing. He knows it. I realize that most here seem not to trust that he will do his best to bring along his supporters. If, in his opinion, the best way to do that is to debate and suffer through another round of primary defeats next Tuesday that is OK with me even if it is not with you.
We are a long way from the convention and a long, long way from the election. If it takes a few more day for Sanders to withdraw in a way that is most likely to bring along his supporters that is more important.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided