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Sanders Wins NH; Buttigieg, Klobuchar Close Behind
Brooklyn Bolshevik Bernie Sanders rallies a New Hampshire crowd with his popular “Liquidate the Kulaks” speech.
Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden have been stuck in the single digits most of the night, a brutal showing for both. All the other candidates have less than 4 percent of the vote. Latest results are listed below the fold.
| Candidate | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Bernie Sanders | 25.8% |
| Pete Buttigieg | 24.3% |
| Amy Klobuchar | 19.8% |
| Elizabeth Warren | 9.3% |
| Joe Biden | 8.7% |
Andrew Yang and Michael Bennet both suspended their campaigns in reaction to their paltry showings. Deval Patrick is expected to do the same. “I am not someone who wants to accept donations and support in a race that we will not win,” Yang said late Tuesday night to supporters. “The ‘Yang Gang’ has fundamentally shifted the direction of this country and transformed our politics, and we are only continuing to grow.”
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Exactly my sentiment
I don’t know that his support for law enforcement when Mayor should be called “racist.” Unless you know more, I would object to that description. Who are the victims of black crime ? He is a nasty authoritarian type, so I would not want him anywhere near the presidency but would object to calling him racist unless there is more evidence,
I kind of disagree about his term as Mayor. There were problems with snow removal and superstorm Sandy. The lefties may have liked his nanny statism and gun control but he spent a lot of time bloviating on world problems when not running the city. I should add I avoid NYC like the plague so have no first hand experience.
I’m glad Yang is out just so I don’t have to put up with his fans anymore. Yang is not an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs make stuff that people want. Yang is a “want-trepreneur.” Want-trepreneurs create non-profit bureaucracies on taxpayer dollars. Just look at this resume: he founded “Venture For America.” The Obama administration knighted him a “Champion of Change” and a “Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship.” Cringe-worthy. No private sector experience, the antithesis of an entrepreneur.
He pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes because he said a lot of math-stuff to make his brand of parasitism sound intellectual. UBI sure sounds like a great idea when you have no work experience.
The Democrats still live in an information bubble. Warren isn’t popular outside of Mass. They kept propping up Biden even though he was not strong from the get-go, Bloomberg – ugh – the personality of a drone, plus wrong gender, color and income level for Democrats. The worrisome one is Bernie. As Carville called him, an old Bolshevik…..but something about him connects with liberals and the youth….it’s called socialism, and Obama laid the foundations. If you stop and think that this man could ever be president, it makes your stomach turn over and your heart sink…….our Founders would have never believed that this is where we would be in the future.
Thanks for the background.
Pretty good nite for Never Trumpers. Progressives took a major hit for the Democrats, with both Sanders and Warren way underperforming, while the best moderate Dem option (Amy Klobochar) had a breakout nite. Also, Bill Weld got nearly 10% of the GOP vote vs. Trump, which is pretty good given most independents probably voted in the D primary.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/895375/trumps-gop-challenger-bill-weld-did-surprisingly-well-new-hampshire-primary
Dukakis-like or maybe Dukakis-lite as she seems to have even less going for her than he did. I’m
stealingkeeping your phrase for future use.Need to check out Schweitzer’s book. I didn’t realize Amy was in it so thanks for the heads up.
I think @jmelvin is (1) referring to the tapes which don’t sound great and are probably not really racist except for SJWs and (2) aforementioned SJWs consider any law enforcement of any kind racist.
And Yang was an anti-circumcision activist . . .
If I were Bernie, the last person I’d want close behind me is Buttigieg. Just sayin’ . . .
I was just thinking that, but thought, “Where is Stad when you need him?”
And where’s my wife when I need her? We were going to have lunch with some friends today, but she had to beg off because something came up. I said, “Don’t worry, I’ll contradict everything I say for you!”
You are both very bad. Although it gets back to my original thought about Mayor
CheatPete – his last name reminds you of, er, hisproclivitiesactionsself-proclaimed identity.Remember what happened to the stock market in 1974 when the left took Congress. It was 6 years plus of inflation and depression at the same time,. Jerry Ford called it “Stagflation.”
Hilarious.
https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1227606528150134789
118,000 votes. More than twice any other president got in that primary.
Bragging about getting lotsa votes in whats supposed to be an uncompetitive primary, isn’t the sick brag you and Brad think it is. Btw, lemme know if you fellas are confused about how percentages work. I can help.
Great work, Left Coast. Very interesting post I haven’t seen anywhere else.
The problem for the Dems is who fits the Anti- Sanders savior figure?
Bloomberg might be trouble because allegedly he will spend $2 Billion on a campaign but otherwise voting for an Oligarch seems like the last thing most radicals will want to do.
My fear is that Michelle Obama will enter the race. She as a stand in for Buraq she could unite the party and give Trump a run for his money. The good news is that she seems to want to be as far away from running as possible.
Other than her, I see no Anti- Sanders Savior. Sundance at CTH maintains that when you look at the data, Bernie is close to leading everywhere for the Dems because we have so many brainwashed fashionable Lefties out there that abhor anything close that could be called a middle of road sell out.
And (3) aforementioned SJWs are now a growing, if not the major, power center in the Party, and the Party is not immune from the threatening violence if the SJWs don’t get their way. Bernie bros have already committed significant acts of political terrorism against Republicans. If the Democrats rig the game against Bernie again, I doubt that the Democrat Party will get off scot free.
There’s a lot of talk on the Left about a brokered convention. Steve Bannon thinks Bloomberg’s money is being spent to buy the DNC in order to push his pet agendas and to force a brokered convention that would draft Hillary. I could see Michelle Obama, too.
Mark Levin thinks Bloomberg is an oligarch, but China’s rather than Russian. That he’s financially tied to the PRC enough that he will sell out the US. Bloombert is not only personally hostile to Trump, Trump’s trade policies have hurt Bloomberg’s masters in China. Levin didn’t say this, but his analysis makes Bloomberg sound sort of like the Armand Hammer of the early 21st century.
GoogleFace may not like Bernie’s overt anticorporatism, but I bet they could sell his (or any) Democrat administration into a contract with them for a social/social justice credit + anti “fake news” service.
“Order at the Border” is my second-favorite Jethro Tull song.
I don’t object to his support for law enforcement, except where law enforcement engages in activities barred by the US Constitution. However my comments about his racism stem from comments that come from his own mouth mis-characterizing some minorities and crime, generally. It is his contempt for non-whites that has come out in various speeches that cause me to call him what I did. I know some of it recently was aired (just this week), but other bits have too in recent years. I’d have to go digging to find my references.
Speaking of his last name, here’s a pronunciation guide: