Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumI'm officially an undecided voter now. It's weird.
My Candidate dropped out (Kamala) and I find myself in unfamiliar territory, undecided.
It's a place I haven't been in at least 20+ years, if ever.
I literally can't remember when I was undecided in primary season last, maybe 1988?
Worse yet, I'm not even sure what will win me over.
I want to beat Trump, and I want solid progressive policies moving forward too.
We can have both IMHO.
I have general amiable feelings for most of the candidates in our field.
Win me over, make the case for your candidate.
I'm not going to debate any of it.
I'm on a listening tour.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Bernie Sanders is probably your best bet. Not only does he poll well against Trump nationally, he does very well in the midwestern states that decided the election in 2016. If you have any questions on his policy positions ask away and I'll do my best to answer.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
pbmus
(12,418 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JoeOtterbein
(7,698 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
elleng
(130,156 posts)only place to be, imo, considering all the variables.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)state's primary is in June so we should have a pretty clear nominee by then.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,725 posts)Of course Id still vote for her in the General election. But that would be really depressing.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,725 posts)I like that
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
judeling
(1,086 posts)I had a hard Time choosing between Warren and Klobuchar. Because I was not sure going big and fighting hard would get us more progress then going smaller and more incrementally but never stop doing that would.
The M4A debate convinced me that the party is not ready for big and way to much effort getting the party inline will be expended before we even get to deal with the Republicans and the media.
So Nancy Pelosi basically convinced me, it had to be Amy. The two most effective Democratic legislators of the past decade in control will get us the most progress possible.
It was always Warren or Klobuchar because they are exactly the type of candidates that drives Trump crazy nd that he has no way to deal with.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)(Like the junior senator from VT, the retiring congressman from Hawaii, the mayor of the tiny hamlet in IN, and Bloomberg), but many of the rest are still in play. I'm sure it will sort itself out by the time of the CA primary
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Non-partisan, no editorials pro of against any given candidate, none of the "this is a bad look" or "uh-oh, this is concerning" malarkey.
Just objective analyses of policy and issue. It's my go-to toe-in-the-water guide I use at the beginning of every election cycle.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)Bernie Sanders says 'NO' to $1 trillion nuclear arsenal on Today Show
Bernie on legalizing Marijuana
Bernie Sanderss criminal justice reform plan, explained
Bernie Sanders is unique among Democratic presidential candidates as an early critic of mass incarceration. His criminal justice reform plan, released over the weekend, is his map for how hed do something about it.
The proposal covers a variety of issues, including reeling back long prison sentences, ending cash bail, improving oversight of police, boosting public defenders, legalizing marijuana, and banning private, for-profit prisons.
The plan notes the unique position the United States is in today: The country locks up more people than any other in the world, even authoritarian regimes like China, Cuba, and Russia. Sanders points out that this has disproportionately hurt black and brown Americans, who face racial disparities in arrests, incarceration, police use of force, and other kinds of law enforcement.
The rise of Black Lives Matter and a broader bipartisan push for criminal justice reform, which most Democrats support, have led the Democratic candidates in 2020 to take a more aggressive stance on criminal justice. Sanders is far from the first candidate to release a criminal justice reform plan; Joe Biden put out a similarly comprehensive plan in July, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker have unveiled clemency reform proposals, and Kamala Harris released proposal focused on marijuana reform.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/19/20812138/bernie-sanders-criminal-justice-reform-plan-mass-incarceration
Bernie Sanders kicked off his campaign promising to take an ax to US defense spending
"Today, we say to the military-industrial-complex that we will not continue to spend $700 billion a year on the military more than the next 10 nations combined," the White House hopeful told the crowd. "We're going to invest in affordable housing, we're going to invest in public education, we're going to invest in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure not more nuclear weapons and never-ending wars."
Sanders, a Brooklyn native, staked out his campaign as the antithesis to Trump, striking policy contrasts on everything from social policy to taxes, from environmental policy, to approaches to health care reform.
"Trump wants to divide us up by the color of our skin, our country of origin, our gender, our religion and our sexual orientation. We are going to do exactly the opposite," Sanders said. "We are going to bring our people together black, white, Latino, Native American, Asian American, gay and straight, young and old, men and women, native-born and immigrant."
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"Make no mistake about it, this struggle is not just about defeating Donald Trump. This struggle is about taking on the incredibly powerful institutions that control the economic and political life of this country," he told the crowd. "Im talking about Wall Street, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the military-industrial complex, the prison-industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry and a corrupt campaign finance system that enables billionaires to buy elections."
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https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-promises-to-cut-and-reinvest-us-defense-spending-2019-3
Bernie Sanders Proposes Huge Renewables Build-Out and Publicly Owned Power
Senator Bernie Sanders, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidacy, on Thursday released his long-awaited climate platform. The document adopts the "Green New Deal" moniker and calls for a climate and justice-centered revolution from the Oval Office to the streets.
The Sanders Green New Deal promises a remake of essentially all aspects of U.S. society by eliminating support for the fossil fuel industry and buoying clean energy through investments in wind and solar, energy efficiency and electrified transport. Climate change will be factored into virtually every area of policy, the plan reads. It requires 100 percent renewable electricity and transportation by 2030 at the latest.
The document confronts the plans ambition with characteristic Sanders candor: The federal government electrified America as part of the New Deal. The United States of America put people on the moon 50 years ago, it reads. We can sure as hell transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewables today and create millions of jobs in the process.
All told, the campaign said the plan would require investment of $16.3 trillion the biggest spend a Democratic candidate has proposed thus far with $1.52 trillion going directly to renewable energy and $852 billion to the build-out of energy storage. Senator Elizabeth Warrens proposal is a close second, at $2 trillion for clean energy programs.
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https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/bernie-sanders-proposes-renewables-buildout-and-public-electricity
Thanks for the thread TeamPooka and best wishes in your deliberations.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)should vote for.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,096 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Penn Voter
(247 posts)I am a registered Independent and I support whomever wins the Democratic nomination
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Igel
(35,197 posts)To commit to a candidate, I think, tends to introduce bias into what I read and how I read it. I'd rather read what comes along, track down some things, and then a week or two before voting review everything. I find I have a clearer view of some things that way, since I don't find myself arguing to defend "my" candidate. And it makes arguing that another candidate is unsuitable on anything but disinterested grounds difficult.
It also means that if a candidate drops out or is clearly not passing muster with the voters I don't really bother to consider him/her.
It rules out some activities, though. Don't have the time, energy, or inclination to be a campaign worker, to proselytize, or walk precincts. But since my opinion until I cast a vote is pretty unimportant, I don't find fretting over how individual candidates' fortunes wax and wane to be worth the cortisol.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden