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This marks the end of his pathetic campaign. My regret, it should have come later because I fear Pocahontas more than Biden in the general.

Scott Adams feels that Warren can't get elected because of 4 things:

1. Her Green Climate Change plan cuts out nuclear entirely. Other Democrat candidates have come out in favor of nuclear - because they actually understand power generation realities. No unicorn farts or butterfly wing turbines for realists.

2. Her health care plan necessitates lots of her own constituency who've "got theirs" when it comes to health care - voting against their own self-interest. Pay more, get a crappier plan. Not happening.

3. No support from the black constituency. They no like white squaw.

4. Dissing males in general, regardless of color. Adams: "She also did another disqualifying thing in the vein of Hillary. She made a blatant anti-male comment at one of her rallies. Her statement was: "We're not here because of, you know, the men who went before - in fact - we're not here because of men at all!""

Adams even mentions that her very NAME is a Persuasion mistake. Makes you think of war.

I believe Warren is more dangerous than Biden for the following reasons:

1. She knows how to debate, she was a tenured law professor at Harvard, that's what they do all day whether before the class teaching by the Socratic method, in the faculty lounge challenging one another, or in preparation for academic articles. She will not lose her cool in debate and she will not lose her train of thought. Biden is likely to go off the rails and to lose himself in the thickets of his dementia. Granted, Trump will be very effective in changing the debate game as he has done so many times in the past. I think Warren will be less vulnerable, although not invulnerable, than Biden when that happens.

2. The whole campaign is not decided by debates, there will be months and months of opportunities for gaffes. Biden makes them every news cycle, Warren tends not to make them.

3. Biden is saddled with the bad as well as the good of the Obama administration. The good is that which appeals to the Democrat base but we have to understand that the Democrat base has moved on. Warren, to the contrary, it's free of Obama taint and she is offering something that the Democrat and independent voters respond to, new ideas. Biden is selling old wine in an old bottle. Warren has fresh plans and fresh ideas, never mind how far left they are, her target electorate does not make those judgments.

4. Warren and Trump are running on parallel appeals, populism. Granted, Warren's populism is vulnerable because it makes no fiscal sense mathematically but Trump is hardly in a position to attack Warren for overspending. Both candidates offer a populism that blames elites while Warren offers big government to cure crony capitalism and Donald Trump offers to "drain the swamp," cut regulation, cut taxes and free up fair market capitalism. Biden's liability is that he is the swamp. Warren can distance herself and play the outsider as she offers a new plan every news cycle.

5. Biden's biography is riddled with deceit and self-dealing. He is a recidivist plagiarist. He is a self-aggrandizing liar, offering stories that are simply ludicrous and liable to be easily disproven. He is tainted by his son's corruption in Ukraine and China. He is a swamp creature personified.

6. Warren speaks the female dialect, she oozes empathy. Her earnestness, whether faked or real, sells and it seems to be very attractive to the critical white, educated, suburban female voter in the decisive battleground states. Biden simply appears as a hack. Despite her age, she looks young and vigorous. Biden creaks.

Certainly, it is too early to come to these conclusions without hedging them with all manner of reservations. Judging from what we know now and certainly subject to change as events unfold, Warren appears to be the more dangerous candidate.

Thanks,kiryandil. Nice summation of points. I’ve just downloaded Adams’ talk now and listen on my commute.

Adams is at the forefront of strategic political and career enhancement thinking. I’m one of those who regularly sips a simultaneous beverage with him out of my “glass, stein, tankard, or vessel of any kind”.

These points about Warren’s challenges are excellent — and some are quite original.

And I respect that Adams plays fair with his listeners. A long time ago he predicted Harris would rise to be the nominee, and as things have worked out, it looks like that’s not to be.

But Adams has not reneged on his prediction — and mentions occasionally how “my original prediction of Harris” is not looking good.

Every FReeper needs to try Adams on for size. No commercials, his podcast commentary is off-beat and a great listen most of the time. And he branches off on occasion to talk about “persuasion” and the psychology of winning.

And unlike most podcasters on the planet, he lets you scan his talk topics (in a text outline) before you listen on-line or download his (30-40 minute) MP3 to your phone.

To find him: type “Scott Adams coffee” on Google, or go directly to: https://www.scottadamssays.com/coffee-with-scott-adams-podcast/