Bernie is Toast, Biden is Close

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Bernie Sanders’ presidential hopes are over, although he may not realize it yet. – The Commie had to undergo surgery to implant multiple stents into his 78 year-old heart, and has cancelled a bunch of planned campaign events over the next couple of weeks so he can recover. Although this can be a fairly minor procedure for a younger person – I had one placed into my left ventricular artery at age 55 and was back to full speed within a few weeks – it can be far more difficult for a person of Sanders’ advanced age.

But the speed of his recovery doesn’t even matter here: Sanders was already finding it impossible to move his polling numbers much above 15% due in part to the impression among many Democrats that he is just too old for the job he seeks. Suffering a heart attack in the midst of the campaign – and yes, if he was having chest pains, any doctor will tell you that he did indeed suffer a heart attack – will only serve to build that perception among many more voters, who will now begin to cast their eyes in the direction of the other, younger unquestioned Marxist in the race, Fauxcahontas.

The near-certain outcome will be that we will see Sanders’ polling numbers drop into single digits over the next few weeks, and a commensurate rise in support for Little Mouth Always Running.

Speaking of the Fake Indian running, check out the greeting she received from Nevada voters when her plane landed out there on Wednesday:

Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra Nevada voters fume at Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren as she arrives in the state over her support for impeachment

Embedded video 9,354 6:47 PM - Oct 2, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 4,581 people are talking about this Not exactly the reception that Princess I’m Gonna Take Your Wampum expected. But that’s the price we can expect more and more Democrats to pay for their support for San Fran Nan’s sham impeachment circus as Trump supporters become increasingly engaged in public activism and protest.

Meanwhile, the campaign of Quid Pro Joe Biden, the nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Senator, is now hanging by a thread. While Biden’s foundering campaign did not quite meet my prediction that his lead would have disappeared by October 1, he sure came close.

In fact, Lieawatha actually now holds the lead in 4 of the 7 most recent polls taken in the race, according to Real Clear Politics, and she and Biden are in a statistical tie in a fifth poll taken by Emerson. In fact, only one of those polls was even partially conducted in October, and that one – by The Economist/YouGov – shows the Fake Indian holding a 6 point lead. The two clear outlier polls, both showing Biden with 11 point leads, were taken entirely in September.

Given that reality, I think I’ll declare half a victory on this particular prediction, made back in April when Crazy Uncle Joe kicked off his campaign with a near-30 point lead. There is now little doubt that his lead will disappear entirely when the first polls conducted entirely in October are published over the next two weeks.

For the rest of the field, just a few trends to note:

Kamala Harris is on life support. She announced early this week that she is shaking up her staff, but that won’t help. The candidate is the problem with her campaign. She is just a horrible candidate, and shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic won’t change that.

Preacher Pete is your basic 6% candidate now, and his trendline has been essentially static since June. His consistent ZERO support from African American voters means he has no real chance in the race for the nomination, and that won’t change. The only reason for him to hang around is in the hopes of becoming arm candy for Fauxcahontas in the general election.

Andrew Yang had a $10 million fundraising haul in the third quarter, which places him in the top 4 in this pitiful field. He had one exciting moment when he came in at 8% in the Emerson poll last week, but that’s a clear statistical anomaly given that he is at 2 or 3 in every other poll. Another potential vice presidential nominee, but no chance to win the big prize.

Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Irish Bob O’Rourke and Amy Klobuchar are all dead as door nails, but they will linger through the next debate in mid-October in the vain hopes of having some breakthrough moment on that crowded stage.

The only other declared candidate worth mentioning is Tulsi Gabbard, who had a chance to be the only actual interesting person on stage when she initially came out in opposition to Pelosi’s Impeachment Circus. But she lost that not even 48 hours later when she reversed her posture. Thus, she’ll be just another hack with no chance of truly distinguishing herself in that next debate.

Then there’s the Pantsuit Princess, the thus-far-undeclared candidate in this race. The Fainting Felon has raised eyebrows by putting herself back in the public spotlight with a series of speaking events this week, raising the spectre that she might decide to become a late entrant into the campaign season as Biden falters.

From a pure self-defense standpoint, that appeared to make some sense late last week, as the corrupt news media assisted Biden by claiming the President’s rhetoric about Biden’s clear pay-for-play selling of his vice presidential office related to Ukraine, China and other countries amounted to a Trump attack on a political rival rather than an effort to identify clear corruption. But that particular line of BS has very quickly lost its utility as this week has progressed and the damning video of Biden bragging about engaging in his clear bullying of the Ukraine government on behalf of his ne’er-do-well son gained traction with the public.

Would the Grasping Grifter attempt a similar tactic, declaring herself to be a candidate to try to give herself political cover against the increasingly aggressive investigation led by Attorney General William Barr? She might, but she would fail even more miserably than Biden is failing with that line of BS.

Only time will tell. I still think her plan is to wait it out and hope to become the party’s savior at a hung convention.

Given all of that, here are my updated odds on who the eventual Democrat nominee will be:

Fauxcahontas – 3 to 1

Someone not currently declared – 3 to 2

Quid Pro Joe – 20 to 1

The Commie – 50 to 1

Preacher Pete – 100 to 1

Kamala – 100 to 1

Andrew Yang – 100 to 1

The rest of the declared field – DEAD

That is all.

[Delta 21]

Doesnt this Yuge rock kinda look like Trump?

[null and void]

"I still think her plan is to wait it out and hope to become the party’s savior at a hung convention."

Yep.

[princess leah]

I. Wouldn’t count out Tulsi or Wang....something has got to give and voters are disgusted by the same old same OLD politicians taking the limelight when they are not the answer. Hillary would lose EVEN more in 2020 than she did in 2016....Problem is, no one is willing to tell her to STAY HOME!

[null and void]

*shrug* People want to live.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

To me, it seems the Democrats have pursued this idea of diversity to such an extreme that they are not likely to support candidates that have even the least bit of baggage to a special interest group. Tulsi has problems with the LGBQ crowd because she was against gay marriage like ten years ago; Buttigieg can get the black vote, I guess because there was some sort of police problem in South Bend recently. Kamala dropped like a rock because she attacked Biden, which rankled the traditional Dems. It's like everyone in the party has a chip on their shoulder and is so resentful that they won't move to other candidates, probably not until the general election, when they will have no choice.

But, I do agree that Tulsi and Yang are a little bit different-still, they are both progressives to the core.

[romanesq]

“scenting”

Smell the old Bern?

[fuzzylogic]

Agree except for the expected voter fraud avalanche about to occur.

I’m expecting some very strange “polls” to begin appearing, along with other aspects, like real disenfranchisement of conservatives/military/etc, to setup the landscape to explain the massive vote against PDJT.

I think we need an army of video surveillance crews to follow ballot boxes. If I see another video (Broward County, Florida) of individuals driving up to trucks with ballot boxes, violating any resemblance of ballot chain-of-trust, I’m going to explode. My guess is this will happen all over the country.

[faucetman]

“... and yes, if he was having chest pains, any doctor will tell you that he did indeed suffer a heart attack ...”

There is a ?protein? or something in the blood that definitely proves that you had a “heart attack”.

Ask Bernie or his campaign if he indeed had a “heart attack” and was this protein (or whatever it is) found in his blood.

Blood Test Predicts Heart Attack Risk - WebMD

https://www.webmd.com/heart/news/20070109/blood-test-predicts-heart-attack-risk

“Cardiac troponin is a protein found in heart muscle that is involved in muscle contraction. It is released into the blood stream when heart muscle is damaged”

[Alas Babylon!]

All hail democrat nominee Grey Beaver!

[romanesq]

Saw this similar but some of it earlier. Never saw ole Quid Pro Joe making it to the finish line. Now he’s gone under the bus to foster a very bad and imploding second intel operation against Donald Trump.

Had predicted Biteme would also be out between Halloween and Thanksgiving. Let’s see how that turns out. Something is hitting the fan soon from the Justice side. (DOJ IG Horowitz is a softie though and is pals with Comey so that should kick things off nicely even as it gets the softshoe.)

Another great article following the recent LS teaming.

[Alas Babylon!]

I had that protein in my blood. So my doctors was sure it was a heart attack, and I went to a high-faluting cardiologist, who stressed tested me, ultra-sounded me, and did the nuclear medicine thing with a big xray scanner type thing. I had surgery by him later to put stents in.

I remember being put to sleep, and then it seemed like a second later I was waking to the doc telling me “Great news! I didn’t find anything wrong with your heart or blood vessels! You didn’t have a heart attack!!! Everything looked really good, actually.”

I feebly replied, “What about that protein in my blood, the tests, the ultrasounds and all???”

He replied, “Sometimes you just gotta take a look inside.”

This was in 2013.

I tell people to this day that I had a phony heart attack.

[commish]

I am going to stick with my prediction that the nominee will be:

Michael Obama ... er I mean Michelle.

[EyesOfTX]

I think the point is a person can have heart attack symptoms, but if there is no tissue damage then they can have a complete recovery after treatment.

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That is absolutely true, and in fact exactly what happened in my case. Yet, because I had elevated enzymes, my cardiologist - one of the very best in Houston - will insist that I had a heart attack. Because I did.

[wastoute]

Maybe I have been retired for too long and maybe because my experience was mainly Neuro but I have seen catheters produce huge complications. They must be much safer now. Even when I was still working, in the early days of femoral artery catheterization they were very careful to take care when removing the catheter. I personally watched a woman almost exsanguinate when we pulled the introducer. Within a year or two they were routinely letting people sit in the hall afterwards and I saw a couple nears misses due to no one even monitoring.

[wastoute]

Which is one more reason Trump is The Last President.

[romanesq]

“I tell people to this day that I had a phony heart attack.”

That’s an awesome story. Someone really prays for you a lot.

[Kharis13]

I’ll probably get flamed mercilessly for this, but I wish Mr. Sanders a full and speedy recovery. If he’s the nominee, we’ll whip him at the voting booth.

[EyesOfTX]

I wish The Commie a full and speedy recovery as well. I’m just commenting on the impact to his campaign. He’s done.

[Mr. K]

I’ve said the same to my liberal freinds.

I wish him a speedy recovery AND I wish he is the Dem nominee.

For some reason that irks them :)

[HotHunt]

Whether Bernie suffered a heart attack or not, is missing the point.

Having a heart-related "episode" that required hospitalization to have stents inserted in two of his coronary arteries that forced cancellation of his campaign for a few weeks is what the public will see and hear. Whether he had a heart attack or not makes no difference to his election chances.

The political damage to Bernie's campaign has been done already with this incident. If he's smart, he'll bow out gracefully.

I personally had a quadruple bypass and an atrial valve repair 8 years ago and never experienced a heart attack beforehand. But it made no difference to me or the docs. Four of my coronary arteries were 80% occluded. Without the surgery, I was a heart attack waiting to happen.

Bernie's age and fragile health just rose to the forefront as the #1 issue of his campaign. Giving away everything of value to the taxpayer's for free, won't save him now.