Posted on 02/10/2020 3:17:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MANCHESTER, NH - For the past year, Democratic voters have been anxious to settle on a savior capable of defeating President Donald Trump.
The first week of primary balloting was supposed to speed the winnowing of an outsized field of candidates and showcase Democrats’ readiness to take back the White House in November. But an embarrassing meltdown in the Iowa caucus vote count, and a dismal showing by Joe Biden, once seen as the safest choice to unseat the Republican incumbent, have only heightened fears among some Democrats that their party isn’t up to the task.
The early strength of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the liberal stalwart who has vowed to upend American healthcare and go after corporations and the wealthy, has some voters worried that Democrats will blow their chance to unseat an unpopular president if the party veers too far to the left.
Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary may do little to dispel the collective unease or help bridge the deep ideological split between the party’s liberal and moderate wings. Several recent polls showed the top two vote-getters in Iowa - Sanders and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg - as the favorites in New Hampshire.
While the primary season is young, voters such as Millie LaFontaine are already feeling a touch of panic. Interviewed Saturday at a Biden rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, the 69-year-old said she wants to back the candidate best-positioned to knock off Trump, but she isn’t sure who that might be.
“I’d like to vote strategically, but we Democrats are in disarray and I don’t know what strategic is,” she said. “I am afraid.”
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Biden is finished. He is calling voters names for asking a simple question.
Sanders always had strong support.
Buttigieg is the upstart who, I believe, is backed by Clinton.
TheDemocrats are a bunch of spoiled children who have been so shielded by the Commie media for so long that they don’t see their tantrums are turning most Americans completely off.
“I’d like to vote strategically, but we Democrats are in disarray and I don’t know what strategic is,” she said. “I am afraid.”
Translation:
Tell me what to do and who to vote for because I am not an independent thinker!
Come on Democrats embrace the inevitable after all Bernie is running as a Democrat and just because he says what he is while the most of you want to soft sell your communistic ways shouldn’t be a problem
Unpopular? Among the media, but elsewhere, not so much.
Is that an economic argument? As in, "Coronavirus could crash the economy?"
It couldn't be because an epidemic would cause people to run for the current crop of Dem candidates for competence in managing it.
We here in TN don’t have a strong conservative for Lamar’s seat. A Doctor who only campaigns in East TN. And this guy who is a Romney follower was mentioned at the STOU as Lamar’s replacement. I don’t want to vote for another Romney. There is no strong candidate for TN. https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/news/story/2012/sep/11/tn-bill-hagerty-takes-leave-to-help-romney/87529/?fbclid=IwAR02-ze_rFBgYQFk0E5Z3ySDnJKEjcQMYEZan7qAy3UYYh9A3hHzumZtwug
It maybe a short trip to vote, Trump and head home. Sure not voting for the old crappy Dem Governor.
None of them are putting their-selves forward except in a generic manner. Not as strong Conservatives who will have Trump’s back.
“Millie LaFontaine ... “I’d like to vote strategically, but we Democrats are in disarray and I don’t know what strategic is,” she said. “I am afraid.”
I love it.
You beat me to it. President Trump has a higher approval rating than President Obama did, and he was touted as being very popular. And the media can’t understand why no one believes anything they print.
“the 69-year-old said she wants to back the candidate best-positioned to knock off Trump...”
I know folks on the Left say the same about us, but for the life of me I can’t understand how someone can get to be 69 years old and STILL be a commie-lib. Have you learned nothing in life?
Butt boy was on every major news show Sunday.
With candidates like they have, she should be afraid, Sanders is a socialist nut and would finally set up a great conversation regarding Conservatism vs. Socialism
“The most dangerous threat to Trump’s reelection is coronavirus.”
I think you’re right, and why he didn’t close our doors to Asians the minute he learned about the virus I never will understand. We kept people from GOING THERE, yet they continued to COME HERE. Makes no sense.
If you get any info on a possble decent candidate for TN, share it immediately. There’s no reason wonderful TN can’t come up with a great candidate.
Is it one of the RNC’s jobs to do research and court possible candidates? I don’t know the protocol.
Its funny they claim he’s “unpopular” yet they never said that about Obama. Yet Trump’s approval rating is HIGHER than Obama’s was at this point in his tenure......
Exactly. Do unpopular presidents routinely sell-out arenas? They keep using that word, I don’t think it means what they think it means lol
This is how the Left captured CA.
Media message control and Dem-lite candidates for the GOP.
Eventually The People loose hope and say “What is the difference” and then the Left walks in and takes over.
This is happening in AZ, ID, UT after already doing it in CO and OR.
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