Democratic Primaries

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:38 PM Jan 2020

A Democrat Who Can Beat -Trump Why Amy Klobuchar still has a chance.

If you’re like a lot of Democrats, you worry that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are too liberal — or at least that other voters think so. You’re also not buying the Pete Buttigieg hype. And you get nervous every time Joe Biden opens his mouth.

So where are you supposed to find a comfortably electable, qualified candidate who won’t turn 80 while in office?

Senator Amy Klobuchar has become an answer to that question in the final month before voting begins. She has outlasted more than a dozen other candidates and has two big strengths: A savvy understanding of how to campaign against President Trump and a track record of winning the sorts of swing voters Democrats will likely need this year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/opinion/amy-klobuchar-2020.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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

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A Democrat Who Can Beat -Trump Why Amy Klobuchar still has a chance. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2020 OP

She is my second choice... lapfog_1 Jan 2020 #1

At his point, mine too. The Valley Below Jan 2020 #7

she has been getting a lot of second looks in Iowa.. Peacetrain Jan 2020 #2

Iowans like to vote for their neighbors which, I am sure, was a factor when she decided to run question everything Jan 2020 #3

I really like her! leftieNanner Jan 2020 #4

:) Sure for Amy. I like her very real competence. Hortensis Jan 2020 #5

I think she may surprise us mcar Jan 2020 #6

More, since NYT has limits on free visits question everything Jan 2020 #8

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)

1. She is my second choice...

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:41 PM

Jan 2020

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

The Valley Below

(1,701 posts)

7. At his point, mine too.

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 08:50 PM

Jan 2020

Amy is a great liberal. I'd like to see her on the ticket.

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

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)

2. she has been getting a lot of second looks in Iowa..

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 12:43 PM

Jan 2020

a lot!

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

question everything

(47,487 posts)

3. Iowans like to vote for their neighbors which, I am sure, was a factor when she decided to run

Reply to Peacetrain (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:03 PM

Jan 2020

On the other hand, caucus goers by definition are more to the left. Let's just hope that reasons and hard facts will prevail. There is no way we can win in November with the "revolutionaries."

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

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)

4. I really like her!

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:35 PM

Jan 2020

I haven't changed my preference from Warren, but really consider myself undecided. But Sen. Klobuchar is a very good option.

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

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

5. :) Sure for Amy. I like her very real competence.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 08:33 PM

Jan 2020

I'm a strong liberal, but I'm not dismayed by her Minnesota liberalism that is more moderate than mine. As a senator sent to DC by the people of MN, she is bound by honor and duty to be as representative of them as she can manage.

Representative democracy is as close as I get to religion, and that checks an important box for integrity and ethical representation. So I'd be glad Klobuchar was an option if anything were to happen to VP Biden.

Fwiw, admirable as Warren is in many ways, she's also out after shocking me by viewing our individual rights and freedom of choice as discardable by legislative fiat. Polls say that would badly fail the ethical representation test. I don't care if congress would refuse to do it, it's enough that she wanted to. I like her her can-do in other positions.

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

mcar

(42,334 posts)

6. I think she may surprise us

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 08:43 PM

Jan 2020

She seems to be running a good campaign and I've liked her in the debates.

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

question everything

(47,487 posts)

8. More, since NYT has limits on free visits

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Jan 7, 2020, 12:58 AM

Jan 2020

In that way, she reminds me of another Midwestern senator who once seemed too ordinary to be president: Harry Truman. In the summer of 1944, an even more perilous time for global democracy than now, Democratic Party grandees chose Truman as vice president with the belief that he would soon be president, given Franklin Roosevelt’s declining health.

Truman was (as Klobuchar is) a loyal Democrat with populist leanings whom many Republicans, both senators and voters, nonetheless felt some affection for. He had a folksy manner and heartland accent. The analogy extends to Klobuchar’s best-known weakness: Truman had a temper, too.

Her greatest strength is her understanding of how to beat Republicans. They like to portray Democrats as self-serious elites who look down on ordinary Americans. (Think about the caricatures of John Kerry, Al Gore and Michael Dukakis.) Klobuchar has built her political career on an image that combines working class and middle class.

http://www.startribune.com/klobuchar-is-the-everywoman-who-can-reunite-the-u-s/566761122/

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

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