Posted on 01/31/2020 4:41:14 AM PST by Kaslin
No way would there be a forty-nine state rout.
My state (CT) would vote Democrat if AH was running—no doubt about it. So would CA, NY and a bunch of other states.
He’s a symptom, not a cause.
This country’s constituency that wants socialism is robust and its growing. That’s the real problem we’re going to be confronting in the future.
Remember that the DNC has changed the rules on super delegate voting because of the fuss over how Bernie was screwed last time.
The super delegates do not vote on the first ballot.
IIRC, there are about 4750 total delegates, with 700-something of them being supers.
So, to win on the first ballot, someone has to have a majority of ALL of the delegates, in this case about 2375 (given my approximate numbers). But that would be 2375 pledged (or voted on) out of roughly 4000. If that doesn’t happen, there will be additional ballots, and the super delegates will vote.
That’s how you get a white knight proposed when the other candidates’ factions are deadlocked.
Biden has raised the issue of the need for a young, vibrant VP if HE is POTUS - and Sanders is about the same age, and has recently had a heart attack.Therefore if Sanders got the nomination for POTUS there could be a real donnybrook over who gets the VP nomination . . . and Bloomberg as VP nominee would bring his own campaign $$$$$$$$$$ into the mix.
I, too, think Bloomberg’s gigabucks are a potential wild card.If Bernie gets the nomination after suspending his campaign because of a heart attack, the VP slot becomes much more controversial than normally. On rational political calculus, Bloomberg would be the logical choice. He has positioned himself for that, at a minimum IMHO, by pledging to spend big bucks attacking Trump in any event.
Of course, there is some slight cognitive dissonance in a Bernie/Bloomberg ticket - not that that would stop Democrats.
It also has the advantage that any criticism of the Democrat ticket would automatically be “antisemitic."
Wife and I were chatting about Biden saying he needed a “president-ready VP” because he (Biden) is old. I suggested they just swap places on the ticket, young, president-ready guy as P, and Biden can be the seasoned (pickled is more like it) VP
I wonder who he would pick as his VP for the ticket?
He brings nothing to the table as VP, other than putatively the ability to appeal to PA and MI (which I doubt, esp. from the VP slot).
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