I'll check back in in an hour. Meanwhile, please proceed...

Hope.

would stop it.

He doesn't have to, either.

You've got the album right MM, but no the song

Take me to the pilot for control
Take me to the pilot of your soul

Take me to the pilot
Lead me to the chamber
Take me to the pilot
I am not a danger

That's what's playing now

...Iowa's paltry few delegates"

And then we'll all zero in on New Hampshire, where an even paltrier few delegates will be chosen.

After all is said and done, none of the four candidates will have more than about two or three more delegates than any of the other three.

Iowa will be split 11-11-10-9, New Hampshire will be split 7-6-6-5. WOOHOO!! Millions of dollars for about 1.5% of the delegates.

Nate Silver's model suggests the result will have a huge influence on the final outcome. You may disagree, there is every sign the candidates do not.If Biden wins Iowa, he has the nomination inn his pocket.

The Iowa/New Hampshire thing is history. With so many delegates at stake in the Super Tuesday races, they simply do not matter in this election. Add to that the fact that there are four "front-runners" and it's even more hilarious.

It's not going to affect fundraising capability for Biden, Sanders, or Warren at all, nor will it affect how people vote in the Super Tuesday states. All if this is much ado about nothing.

Except that it's showing the true faces of some of the candidates, and there's egg on some of those faces, I think.

hasn't resorted to the attack style politics. It is easy to get sucked in. When someone attacks you, your first impulse is to strike back, but that is rarely effective and the conversation devolves rapidly. Perhaps Joe's many years of experience in politics has taught him this. Whatever the reason, it does tend to elevate him a bit among the candidates, well a lot for me. I tend to turn off and tune out as soon as the scripted political attacks begin. Its not only wrong, but it shows poor political judgment.

That said, Biden has shown that he can be an effective attack dog against the opposition party. I don't think Trump stands a chance.

Biden on Buttigieg's 'Medicare for All Who Want It'.

It died because Pete let it die.

"It's double talk. She's making it up"
Biden on Warren's m4A costings.

It died because Elizabeth let it die.


Warren responded to a question about the Sanders campaign trashing her with dignity, more in sorrow than combat.

Link to tweet

I know you are but what am I? Am so! Am not!

Then I browsed into Primaries and saw the whole damn thread.

Bejayzus, people.

I guess some people are such fans of one candidate or the other that they feel the need to jump on everyone who isn't.

I won't play that game here. Someone is going to end up being the party's nominee. When that finally happens, I'll know who I'll be voting for in the general election. Until then, primary voters will be deciding who it will be. I get one vote in that. So, I'm not deeply invested in the primary races.

I'm in this forum to point that out from time to time.

If we get so wrapped up around one candidate, we run the risk of convincing ourselves that the others are terrible choices. Then, when someone other than our favorite ends up as the nominee, we have all that history of trashing that person. It's not a good thing in any way to get that much committed.

narrow the field down. What is ridiculous is that we all agree on so much of the greater principles. The only value I see in a large field is that Trump doesn't know who to fire at to distract from impeachment. Might not hurt to wait a while longer.

that just fine. I get one vote in Minnesota on March 3. That's what I can do: cast my one vote.

Infighting is not in any way worthwhile.

that. Perhaps adding "eventually" would have helped. However, I really do hope there is a clear choice before the convention because I don't think we will benefit from a repeat of the last one.