Joe Biden let the cat out of the bag on his running mate with this announcement
Joe Bidens nomination as the Democrat candidate for President is a mere formality.
At this point there is only one question hanging over the race. And Joe Biden let the cat out of the bag on his running mate with this announcement.
Joe Biden dominated the headlines coming out of the last Democrat Presidential debate by announcing his intention to nominate a woman as his Vice Presidential running mate.
If Im elected president, my cabinet, my administration will look like the country, Joe Biden declared. I commit that I will, in fact, pick a woman to be my vice president.
There are a number of women who are qualified to be president tomorrow, the former Vice President continued. I would pick a woman to be my vice president.
The names that floated to the top of the list of potential running mates were Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Stacey Abrams and Val Demmings.
Demmings, Harris, and Abrams are black women, which would allow Biden to check two boxes on the identity politics wish list for the Left.
With Biden and Sanders emerging as the final two candidates for the nomination there was little doubt that whoever won the nomination would choose a woman running mate.
After Hillary Clintons two failed Presidential campaigns many female Democrat voters came to the conclusion that the country would never elect a woman President.
That helped explain why Warrens campaign failed to achieve liftoff once the voting began.
Biden promising to pick a woman running mate is his effort to keep far-left feminists many of whom did not support his campaign in the primary on board for the general election.
Will this strategy work?
The Vice Presidential nominee usually ends up being inconsequential to voters.
Americans vote based on the top of the ticket.
But with Bidens advanced age meaning he is likely to only serve one term the selection of his Vice Presidential running mate could inherit the Presidency should Biden choose to step down to allow his successor to run as an incumbent in 2024.
#1: Esso To: BTP Holdings (#0)
There's one name blindingly omitted.
Don't make me look stupid. :)
Esso posted on 2020-03-16 19:24:49 Reply Private Reply
#2: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#1)
Naturally they have turned their backs on Tulsi Gabbard. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-16 19:30:30 Reply Private Reply
#3: Dakmar To: BTP Holdings, Esso (#0)
Dakmar posted on 2020-03-16 19:36:35 Reply Private Reply
#4: Cynicom To: Esso (#1)
Cynicom posted on 2020-03-16 19:36:54 Reply Private Reply
#5: BTP Holdings To: Dakmar (#3)
Sorry Dak, but those are the breaks. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-16 19:39:10 Reply Private Reply
#6: Dakmar To: Cynicom (#4)
Dakmar posted on 2020-03-16 19:40:12 Reply Private Reply
#7: Dakmar To: BTP Holdings (#5)
It ain't over until the fat lady plays with Joe's leg hair at the pool!
Dakmar posted on 2020-03-16 19:41:21 Reply Private Reply
#8: Dakmar To: BTP Holdings (#5)
Dakmar posted on 2020-03-16 19:43:18 Reply Private Reply
#9: Esso To: Dakmar, 4um (#8)
I'm flyin' in a plane load of Chinese hookers, you chopper in the steaks & beer. It'll be a weekend to die for!
Esso posted on 2020-03-16 19:58:14 Reply Private Reply
#10: sonny To: Cynicom (#4)
sonny posted on 2020-03-16 21:43:35 Reply Private Reply
#11: Pinguinite To: Esso (#1)
I'd prefer Tulsi stay clear of the disaster Dem's will suffer in November.
Pinguinite posted on 2020-03-16 22:00:17 Reply Private Reply
#12: Lod To: Esso (#9)
Lod posted on 2020-03-16 22:12:26 Reply Private Reply
#13: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Because of such extreme idiocy -- alI because somebody's afraid to be called 'racist' -- I figure even our victim countries have to be laffing at us.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-16 22:31:01 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: Pinguinite (#11)
She really ought to switch to Republican. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-17 07:32:09 Reply Private Reply
#15: Pinguinite To: BTP Holdings (#14)
Her domestic policies are still typically democrat, sorry to say.
Pinguinite posted on 2020-03-17 10:22:49 Reply Private Reply
#16: BTP Holdings To: Pinguinite (#15)
True, I suppose. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-17 10:49:16 Reply Private Reply
#17: Anthem To: Pinguinite (#15)
Her father's a conservative, and she used to be. I don't think anyone is buying her recent liberalism. She probably got elected to the House just because she ran as a D.
Anthem posted on 2020-03-17 11:01:34 Reply Private Reply
#18: strepsiptera To: BTP Holdings, Esso (#0)
strepsiptera posted on 2020-03-17 11:18:59 Reply Private Reply
#19: Pinguinite To: Anthem (#17)
I think I read both her parents are, but maybe just one. Perhaps that at least shows a virtue of independent thinking.
She's been in public life her entire adult life. I hope that after this run is through this year, she'll open her own business and gain some experience in the private sector. Being a business owner would give her some new perspectives.
Pinguinite posted on 2020-03-17 12:09:14 Reply Private Reply
#20: Pinguinite To: strepsiptera (#18)
Now that is funny.
Pinguinite posted on 2020-03-17 12:10:24 Reply Private Reply
#21: StraitGate To: BTP Holdings, Horse, Pinguinite (#0)
The manufactured hysteria over the coronavirus and the stock market crash will help the democrats.
I'm still betting that Clinton will end up with the nomination, and that she'll also win the general election. I gave my dad 2:1 odds on that, and he said, "Put me down for 10 dollars."
Horse believes that lots of blacks will vote for Trump, but I'm not convinced of that.
StraitGate posted on 2020-03-17 12:31:21 Reply Private Reply
#22: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate, Horse (#21)
Are you aware of what black voters have said after eight years of Obama in the Oval Office? They have been saying, "After eight years of Obama, we are no better off than before."
Under Trump the black unemployment rate has fallen. But that decline started under Obama. It has kept pace tho, despite other unemployment numbers.
I will post an article for everyone on this subject soon. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-17 12:43:43 Reply Private Reply
#23: StraitGate To: BTP Holdings (#22)
Nevertheless, I'm reading that 88-90% of blacks voted for Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump in 2016.
StraitGate posted on 2020-03-17 12:55:09 Reply Private Reply
#24: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings, Strate (#22)
I love to probe people's thoughts wherever I go, esp. in iffy or diversity-laden spots. One day at the soup kitchen where many were resenting my anti-Obongo bumper sticker I asked a negro "Well, what has he actually done for your people?" He, sitting on a log in the front yard, bitterly muttered "Obama ain't worth ****".
But it's a sure thing he voted voted for Hellary in '16.
Incidentally I couldn't tell from scanning the article or this page -- who is going to be Bidet's running mate?
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-17 13:24:38 Reply Private Reply
#25: Pinguinite To: StraitGate (#21)
In Trump's favor, he's getting incredible turnout for the primaries even though he's an incumbent, so there's lots of enthusiasm from supporters. But yes, he has detractors as well. I agree the state of the economy is a major factor.
Pinguinite posted on 2020-03-17 13:37:25 Reply Private Reply
#26: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#23)
That is a drop of 5 percentage points from Obama in 2012. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-17 14:18:37 Reply Private Reply
#27: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#26)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-17 15:00:39 Reply Private Reply
#28: Horse To: Pinguinite (#25)
Horse posted on 2020-03-17 16:47:00 Reply Private Reply
#29: Horse To: StraitGate (#21)
Horse posted on 2020-03-17 17:53:10 Reply Private Reply
#30: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#27)
That's pretty close, within an order of magnitude.
Assuming a geometric sequence that drops 1.25%/year (-5% from 2012 to 2016) and about 14 million blacks voted democrat in in 2016, it would take 1308 years before the last black voter stopped voting democrat. That would be the year 3324.
StraitGate posted on 2020-03-17 19:49:09 Reply Private Reply