Do all the "reaching across the aisle" talk you want, it won't change reality. This is what working with Republicans has looked like for the last several decades:

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to Moscow Mitch and his merry band of pirates, compromise/working together means "give us everything we want and a little extra and maybe, just maybe, we'll cooperate on something else we want."

President to work with are actually willing to work with a Democratic president?

Yahoo reports on Times article:

For his bad judgement and sexual misconduct with female journalists and thrown to the street by the NYT. This is fact

IMHO I cannot image President Obama saying or send someone, anyone to tell mr. Biden that we are concerned that you might “sully” my legacy. Please, think about that for a moment. A disgraced NYT writer says that and it’s gospel??

I suspect that “stand up to them” percentage would be a lot smaller if the Biden alternative weren’t presented AS an alternative. Democracy requires standing up for your own goals and beliefs as you work toward compromise with those who have their own.

I’m sure some of that 39% fully understand and agree.

Where were those "good" retrumplicans then?

They came through for us (McCain, Murkowski and Collins). Let's not forget that.

for sharing.

say he didn't do it expecting gratitude. His goal in that was not to save Obamacare, it was to deny Trump a win. You can't refute it so I think we are done here.

Whether or not they really mean it, it's a good idea not to alienate them (independents, especially) by summarily dismissing the idea.

We can't win with Democrats alone. There aren't enough of us. Appealing to moderates is smart strategy.

NH and SC have open primaries so it makes sense to step back from the intense partisanship particularly since Biden is running on the the theme of unity. And at the end of the day he is running to be president of the US, not just the Democratic electorate.

p.s. I just checked and MI and WI also have open primaries.

I also wonder to what degree they support some of 45's actions.

cause to tell Joe Biden to work with Dems.

what bugs people is the distance between that and reality.

Biden opened his campaign focusing on Charlottesville - he would be smart to turn that kind of light on McConnell.

Democrats and Democratic leaners say 70 - 27 percent that age is not an important factor in their vote. Looking at other possible factors, these voters say:
72 - 21 percent that political ideology is an important factor;
67 - 23 percent that bipartisanship is an important factor;
71 - 24 percent that standing up to Republicans is important;
76 - 20 percent that electability is important;
87 - 10 percent that sharing their views is important;
84 - 13 percent, including 75 - 25 percent among black voters, that race is not an important factor;
84 - 12 percent, including 83 - 14 percent among women, that gender is not important.

who thought it would be a cakewalk for Sen BS.

The majority decides what gets done. As it is we don’t work with Repubs.

If we were the majority we may let them have a say.

That's how divided and hyper partisan this country is right now.

who says they won't try to work with repubs.

Thanks, Skya!

They call it politics.

And exactly the system we need to work within, the one we have, not the one too many fantasize.

As I've said before: sausage-making, not fairytales.

But support him anyway...at least right now.