Exactly... A moderate Democrat these days seems to be for open borders, reparations, no bail for violent criminals, no arrests for class-A drug users, no guns for anyone, no fracking, no coal, no military and no internal combustion engines. They are for free college, carbon taxes, media censorship and they want the Wall torn down. That is what passes for a moderate Democrat.
Not to forget that moderate dems must also support abortion through the tenth month. You know, having a baby is like buying an insurance policy now. You get a ten day free-look period before you are committed. Infanticide is what it is. Pure and simple. The lefty candidates all say that even at that point the mother is in the best position to be the decider. Ahhh no. Any baby born alive is what is constitutionally known as a U.S. Citizen entitled to all protections of the state. The fact that the mothers new boyfriend doesn't like kids is not a mitigating factor. Alright, don't get me going.
As discussed, he has no pathway out of whitey-tighty Iowa and NH. He and Klobo would be in tough shape even if they got numbers upwards of 25%. They are totally broke, have no ground game or staff in any other states. And SuperT is two weeks away. So they are asking people to vote for them just because they heard about them somewhere else. Pokey is probably marginally better off than that, because she has a few dollars to work with and was polling well in CA so they at least acknowledge that she is alive. Although the Bernie surge has left her in the dust as well and I think he Cali 2nd place has fallen away, although some newsweek poll or reported in newsweek from yesterday still shows it. Pokey's status is sort of interesting in another way. A year ago, and even six months ago, and three months ago, every dem on the planet whether pundit or off the street said that they absolutely wanted to see a woman leading the ticket or would give great weight to that possibility. Now, Pokey, despite her problems and points that need to be taken away from her, is the last woman standing or will be shortly out of SIX women that entered the race. But come voting time, the dems have no interest in her or the other five other than some blips. Same things with "of color" types. Dems swore in blood that they wanted diversity- not any old white rich male types. But come voting time, they had no interest in any of them beyond a blip on the screen for a couple weeks: kamala, booker, castro, duval, tulsi, etc. Wow, what a statement about the party that is. They have gone through 30 candidates in the primary and picked through the rubbish heap and found nothing other than some ghosts from christmas past that they have already rejected a couple times over. What a mess. By contrast, Bubba was the premier campaigner of his generation, and ditto for Obama. Clearly there is some chromosome breakage going on in the dem party.
It would be a better deal for her than most vice presidential candidates because she completely unknown outside tv and political junkies and has not really held any important position outside of Georgia politics. Most other vp candidates have already done something- governor, senator- whatsoever so they dont like to add vp loser to their experience. But she has nothing to lose if Bernie asked her and she would end out with a higher profile even if/when they lose. I have scoffed and totally dismissed her the last fifty times this has come up because it was always in the context of whether Biden would ask her. My argument being that she gets to have a say in it and she does not want to be affiliated with a 1950's style politician and world view as Joe has.........because she is a complete commie loon like.....well, errr, Bernie.
Either way... the typical never-Trumper is not you in the sense of requiring some sort of tried and true pedigree. You underestimate the power of TV. She's loved by the left. You just haven't seen it full-stop yet.
Oh I have never scoffed at the idea that totally clueless loons can become rock stars in the media. I have seen too much of it. But they need to be properly positioned to lift off. Abrams will have/would have been handcuffed to defending Joe's crazy shiite rather than blossoming like the little flower that she was meant to be. But with Bernie, the sky is the limit. Same in regard to AOC. She is not old enough but even if she were, she is not and cannot ever be AOC if trying to be part of some Joe Biden clown show. She needed to join Bernie out on the mothership and she has.
In today's Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...s-census-voting-rights-vice-president-953173/ She’s being diplomatic: Before Joe Biden got in the race, advisers to his campaign publicly floated the idea that he and Abrams might announce a joint ticket even before primary voting began. Abrams swatted down that report. (At the time, she was still considering her own run for president.) Biden isn’t the only one who has seemed interested: Bernie Sanders praised her abilities; Elizabeth Warren — who campaigned for Abrams in 2018 — said she’s open to naming a female VP; Pete Buttigieg met with Abrams privately and phone-banked for Fair Fight Action, stoking speculation he might tap her as a potential running mate. And why not? Abrams is a young, charismatic Democrat from a potentially flippable state, a prodigious fundraiser, a captivating speaker. She is also black, like a large portion of the Democratic base (and unlike any of the leading candidates), with a record of motivating voters of all races. Latino and Asian-Pacific Islander turnout tripled when she ran for governor, and she got the highest level of support from white voters of any Democrat in Georgia since Bill Clinton. She has an overachiever’s résumé — a graduate of Yale Law, a college professor, co-founder of a financial-services firm, bestselling author — but the personality of someone you’d actually want to hang out with. She’ll rap with you about her favorite Star Trek episodes, or country music (Dolly Parton and Earl Thomas Conley are favorites), or provide a detailed explanation of why the platypus is her favorite animal (“It is such an odd creature, makes no sense — it’s both mammalian and reptilian”). Her team of aides address her as “Leader” — a holdover from her days as minority leader in the Statehouse but one that sounds quasi-cultish because of staffers’ obvious affection for her. She inspires a similar reaction in strangers: After the 2018 election, Abrams took her first vacation in years, to Turks and Caicos. “I had to stay inside because there were a lot of people that kept trying to hug me,” she says. She even won over Republicans she worked with during her time in the Statehouse. In 2011, one GOP appointee predicted Abrams would be president someday: “Once she puts her mind to something, there is really nothing she can’t do.” Abrams herself has come around to that idea, answering, when she was asked recently if she saw herself in the White House within the next 20 years: “I do.” So, of course potential Democratic nominees want her.