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"I read someplace that Trump is polling well with blue collar democrats. I should have posted that one. Don’t remember where I saw it."

Blue Collar and White Collar workers are in the same boat these days as all their jobs are being destroyed by the same uniparty.

There should be little doubt that Trump could snake 5% of the (D)ummycrat vote by hammering Jobs and Taxes just like Reagan did. He will have to go straight into the heart of enemy territory strongholds in New York, Chicago, and California with massive rallies in the big centers. He will have to talk directly to unions and also directly to their membership.

Make no mistake, this is a huge task, but there is little to no chance that any of the 16 others can switch over any of these voting blocks. Trump can do this.

If he also makes inroads into Women, and Blacks, and Hispanics, peeling off even a percent or two above Romney then he will win this thing walking away.

Biden does not have any appeal to anyone except politburo (D)emocrats, certainly not the younger generation. And on the issues like Jobs and Taxes and Illegal Aliens, he loses completely. And once again, Trump is the only one of the 16 that can make this case plainly stick in the minds of the voters by embarrassing Biden in creative commercials and especially in head-to-head debates.

I suspect that right now Biden is actually trying to decide whether or not he wants to lose to Trump ( it is a high probability ). Does he want to retire as a VP, or as a Presidential loser like McGovern or Carter or Mondale. If Bush was leading today, Biden would already have jumped in.

So we can actually get a gauge on things by watching who gets into the race and who does not. It will tell us something about the internal polls that they are looking at. Same goes for Gore and other prospects. They are weighing the pros and cons of being the designated loser in the year of a populist perfect storm.

Good analysis. There's also the factor of age. Biden is pushing 73. A national campaign is a physically grueling ordeal and there's a legitimate question of whether he'd really be up to it (same question for Hillary and Sanders, actually). Trump is a dynamo and has been operating at this sort of pace for a long time, belying his age.

Whether or not he thinks he has a chance, does Biden really want to put himself and his family through this at this stage of his life? And if he answers his party's call reluctantly, how will that translate on the campaign trail? You need the proverbial "fire in the belly" to compete at that level. I just don't see that from him.