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Joe BidenCongratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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Biden wins Illinois. (Original Post) Drunken Irishman Mar 2020 OP
Who called it, DI? mcar Mar 2020 #1
FOX News Drunken Irishman Mar 2020 #2
Thanks mcar Mar 2020 #5
It's happening like the polls said! Cha Mar 2020 #3
Clair McCaskill BlueIdaho Mar 2020 #4
Yup, I second that prediction. blue-wave Mar 2020 #6
Darned if they didn't True Blue American Mar 2020 #7
Old people are scared. n/t Peregrine Took Mar 2020 #8
Well since Sanders doesn't attract older folks...I doubt that is affecting the numbers but it is Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #9
Older folk tend to be politically smarter and more experienced. Hortensis Mar 2020 #12
How's Tulsi doing? nt zackymilly Mar 2020 #10
barely registering..... sunonmars Mar 2020 #11
 

mcar

(43,512 posts)
5. Thanks
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 07:12 PM
Mar 2020

Not a surprise but good to hear.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Cha

(305,440 posts)
3. It's happening like the polls said!
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 07:10 PM
Mar 2020

TY!

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primary today, I would vote for:
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BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
4. Clair McCaskill
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 07:12 PM
Mar 2020

Predicts Biden will win every county in every state tonight. That’s brutal.

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blue-wave

(4,488 posts)
6. Yup, I second that prediction.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 07:16 PM
Mar 2020

Just saw a map of Florida. Of all counties reporting, Biden wins every one. I count only 6 counties not reporting any results yet.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Demsrule86

(71,023 posts)
9. Well since Sanders doesn't attract older folks...I doubt that is affecting the numbers but it is
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:17 PM
Mar 2020

scary.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. Older folk tend to be politically smarter and more experienced.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:36 PM
Mar 2020

Btw, even as a kid, I wasn't foolish enough to really believe Jimmy Carter's populist "reform candidate" claims that Democrats were corrupt and needed an "outsider" to clean them up. But I'd never run into his ilk before and had no idea that his "grassroots reform" candidacy was a very standard ploy for power seekers who couldn't get anyone who knew them to write even a token check. A strategy Sanders copied almost point by point 40 years later.

In our defense we didn't have the internet to research then, but I have no excuse that I managed to have no idea he was actually economically a small-government conservative who went to war against his fellow Democrats over that, not their supposed "corruption." When it came down to it, I voted happily and cluelessly for him.

What came next was not the exciting period of change we'd been promised (but not examined the details of). We instead had a disastrously failed one-term administration even though we had a Democratic president and Democratic majorities in both the house and senate! They'd hoped to make big things happen, and instead, with a president implacably hostile to their progressive goals and determined to shrink government, that administration's legacy was ending the New Deal era with a whimper. And I was one of the voters responsible for trashing a truly magnificent opportunity. A lot like what happened in 2016, in fact.

Who could have known, though? Those who'd seen Carter's type before of course and weren't fooled by him, not that it occurred to me to ask any of them.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

sunonmars

(8,657 posts)
11. barely registering.....
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:20 PM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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